yako
\ja.ko\
The verdict
“yako” is uncommon French (frequency #79,862 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,862
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot prononcé pour exprimer la compassion, la condoléance, notamment aux proches lors d’un décès, ou à un malade pour lui souhaiter un bon rétablissement
Corpus desk
Index FR-yako · yako · French
yako · rank #79,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,862
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH workflow
Nearest frequency peer: workflow (-2 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 « yako »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- willing
willing
20,144 corpus weight
- wilt
wilt
20,143 corpus weight
- Wordsworth
Wordsworth
20,142 corpus weight
- workflow
workflow
20,141 corpus weight
- yako
yako
20,139 corpus weight
- Zenon
Zenon
20,135 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yako » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yako |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ja.ko\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yako » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yako is uncommon French at frequency #79,862 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ja.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
yako has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is yako, spelled Y-A-K-O.
Definition
- 1Mot prononcé pour exprimer la compassion, la condoléance, notamment aux proches lors d’un décès, ou à un malade pour lui souhaiter un bon rétablissement
- 2Dit à toute personne ayant subi un incident malencontreux en guise de réconfort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yako appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cher papa, toute la famille est réunie pour te dire : « Yako ! ».
– Tu pleures, tu as quoi ? – Tantie, c’est Mariama, elle m’a frappé ! – Eeeh ! Yako ! Mariama, faut plus faire ça, hein ! tu m’as compris ?
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.
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