yagé
[ja.ɡe]
The verdict
“yagé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Breuvage hallucinogène à base de lianes de l’espèce Banisteriopsis caapi, consommé traditionnellement par les chamanes des tribus indiennes d’Amazonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yage · yagé · French
yagé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Y" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yagé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ja.ɡe] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yagé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yagé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ja.ɡe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Breuvage hallucinogène à base de lianes de l’espèce Banisteriopsis caapi, consommé traditionnellement par les chamanes des tribus indiennes d’Amazonie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for yagé in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is yagé, spelled Y-A-G-É.
Definition
- 1Breuvage hallucinogène à base de lianes de l’espèce Banisteriopsis caapi, consommé traditionnellement par les chamanes des tribus indiennes d’Amazonie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yagé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Un chaman m’a confié cette substance. C’est du yagé. – Du...? – Du yagé, ou de l’ayahuasca. Selon certains, cela signifie la liane amère, selon d’autres la liane des morts. On le nomme jus mystique. On extrait cette matière des lianes de la jungle amazonienne. Enfin, de leur écorce. – Est-ce un médicament? – Si l’on veut. – Pardon? – C’est une drogue.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.