yara
\ja.ʁa\
The verdict
“yara” is uncommon French (frequency #74,485 among 5,604 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,485
- frequency rank, French
- 5,604
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante rare de yara-yara.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yara · yara · French
yara · rank #74,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,485
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,604
- PHOTO-FINISH yaka
Nearest frequency peer: yaka (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “yara”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- willa
willa
25,521 corpus weight
- yah
yah
25,519 corpus weight
- yaka
yaka
25,518 corpus weight
- yara
yara
25,516 corpus weight
- Yrieix
Yrieix
25,514 corpus weight
- Yunus
Yunus
25,513 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yara” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ja.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yara” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yara is uncommon French at frequency #74,485 among 5,604 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ja.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante rare de yara-yara.".
No misspelling variants are generated for yara in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is yara, spelled Y-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Variante rare de yara-yara.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.