yakuza
\ja.ku.za\
The verdict
“yakuza” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,335. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,335
- frequency rank, French
- 5,604
- “Y” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Membre de la mafia japonaise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yakuza |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ja.ku.za\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yakuza” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around yakuza (IPA \ja.ku.za\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,335 among 5,604 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Membre de la mafia japonaise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for yakuza, with forms such as "aykuza", "yakkuza", and "yakuaz". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is yakuza, spelled Y-A-K-U-Z-A.
Definition
- 1Membre de la mafia japonaise.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aykuza,yakkuza,yakuaz,yakuzza,yakzua,yaukza,ykauza,yyakuza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yakuza - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “yakuza”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Y-A-K-U-Z-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ja.ku.za\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.