yoga
\jɔ.ɡɑ\
The verdict
“yoga” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,613
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discipline visant, par la méditation, la gymnastique et l’ascèse à réaliser l’unification de l’être dans ses aspects psychique, physique et spirituel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yoga · yoga · French
yoga · rank #10,613 · 5 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,613
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Wikipédia
Nearest frequency peer: Wikipédia (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « yoga »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vo
vo
89,392 corpus weight
- votent
votent
89,391 corpus weight
- western
western
89,390 corpus weight
- Wikipédia
Wikipédia
89,389 corpus weight
- yoga
yoga
89,388 corpus weight
- Yvelines
Yvelines
89,387 corpus weight
What this shows « yoga » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yoga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jɔ.ɡɑ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « yoga »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around yoga (IPA \jɔ.ɡɑ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,613 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Discipline visant, par la méditation, la gymnastique et l’ascèse à réaliser l’unification de l’être dans ses aspects psychique, physique et spirituel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for yoga, with forms such as "oyga", "ygoa", and "yoag". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "you", "yon", "YPG", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is yoga, spelled Y-O-G-A.
Definition
- 1Discipline visant, par la méditation, la gymnastique et l’ascèse à réaliser l’unification de l’être dans ses aspects psychique, physique et spirituel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yoga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour beaucoup cette perception est goût « exotique », art d’agrément ; on s’intéresse au Moyen Âge comme l’on ferait de la peinture sur soie ou du yoga.
Depuis des millénaires, la voie a été désignée comme « l'union des contraires » (c'est le sens étymologique du mot yoga) ou « la réconciliation des opposés ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oyga
- ygoa
- yoag
- yogga
- yyoga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yoga - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).