yahuasca
\ja.y.as.ka\
The verdict
“yahuasca” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de ayahuasca.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yahuasca · yahuasca · French
yahuasca · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | yahuasca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ja.y.as.ka\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
yahuasca is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ja.y.as.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de ayahuasca.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for yahuasca in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is yahuasca, spelled Y-A-H-U-A-S-C-A.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de ayahuasca.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yahuasca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la fin de la fête, il but pour la première fois de la natema, la douce liqueur hallucinogène préparée en faisant bouillir les racine de la yahuasca, et, dans le rêve qui suivit, il se vit lui-même comme une partie inséparable de ces espaces en perpétuelle mutation, comme un poil supplémentaire sur ce corps vert infini, pendant et sentant comme un Shuar,…
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.