yawl
\jɔl\
The verdict
“yawl” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voilier à deux mâts dont l’artimon (mât arrière) est positionné en arrière de la mèche de safran.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yawl · yawl · French
yawl · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | yawl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jɔl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
yawl is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \jɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for yawl in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is yawl, spelled Y-A-W-L.
Definition
- 1Voilier à deux mâts dont l’artimon (mât arrière) est positionné en arrière de la mèche de safran.
- 2Forme particulière de gréement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yawl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lendemain, dès six heures du matin, un charmant yawl de quarante-cinq à cinquante tonneaux, la Clorinda, quittait le petit port d’Iona, et, sous une légère brise du nord-est, ses amures à tribord, s’élevait au plus près, gagnant la haute mer.
Généralement grée en yawl et munis de moteurs, ils se faufilent mieux entre les glaces […].
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.