Yacouba

name

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The verdict

“Yacouba” is uncommon French (frequency #75,358 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,358
frequency rank, French
198
“Y” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-yacouba · Yacouba · French

Yacouba · rank #75,358 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,358
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 198
  • PHOTO-FINISH ylang

Nearest frequency peer: ylang (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « Yacouba »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Yacouba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Yacouba
PropertyValue
HeadwordYacouba
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#75,358
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Yacouba » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Yacoubatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « ylang » (#75,359), « WWII » (#75,356), « zazou » (#75,360). Parmi 198 lemmes en « Y », « Yacouba » est au #75,358. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Yacouba is uncommon French at frequency #75,358 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Yacouba, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Yacouba, spelled Y-A-C-O-U-B-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Yacouba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Yacouba Camara fait son retour en Bleu et le jeune Léo Coly remplace Maxime Lucu comme doublure d’Antoine Dupont.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Yacouba"?
"Yacouba" is spelled Y-A-C-O-U-B-A.
What does "Yacouba" mean?
As a proper noun, "Yacouba" means: Prénom masculin.
What language does "Yacouba" come from?
"Yacouba" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Yacouba", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

workout#75,353épandre#75,368vouvoie#75,346vigneau#75,334

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list