yaoi
\ja.ɔj\
The verdict
“yaoi” is uncommon French (frequency #61,232 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,232
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sous-genre de manga et d’animé dans lesquels l’intrigue est centrée autour d’une relation homosexuelle entre personnages masculins, pouvant comporter des scènes sexuelles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yaoi · yaoi · French
yaoi · rank #61,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,232
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Worcester
Nearest frequency peer: Worcester (-3 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 « yaoi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- widow
widow
38,774 corpus weight
- Wladimir
Wladimir
38,773 corpus weight
- Worcester
Worcester
38,772 corpus weight
- yaoi
yaoi
38,769 corpus weight
- zia
zia
38,766 corpus weight
- Zulu
Zulu
38,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yaoi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yaoi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ja.ɔj\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yaoi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yaoi is uncommon French at frequency #61,232 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ja.ɔj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sous-genre de manga et d’animé dans lesquels l’intrigue est centrée autour d’une relation homosexuelle entre personnages masculins, pouvant comporter des scènes sexuelles.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for yaoi, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is yaoi, spelled Y-A-O-I.
Definition
- 1Sous-genre de manga et d’animé dans lesquels l’intrigue est centrée autour d’une relation homosexuelle entre personnages masculins, pouvant comporter des scènes sexuelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yaoi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si le genre du yaoi voit le jour dans [les] années 1970, l’intérêt des lectrices et autrices pour l’homoérotisme est bien plus ancien. Selon Patrick Galbraith, la littérature, le théâtre et l’art japonais sont dotés d’une riche histoire d’homoérotisme.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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