yole
\jɔl\
The verdict
“yole” is uncommon French (frequency #83,519 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,519
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de petit canot léger qui va à la voile et à l’aviron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yole · yole · French
yole · rank #83,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,519
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH zal
Nearest frequency peer: zal (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « yole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wool
wool
16,486 corpus weight
- Yakov
Yakov
16,484 corpus weight
- yole
yole
16,482 corpus weight
- zal
zal
16,481 corpus weight
- Zinn
Zinn
16,480 corpus weight
- zippo
zippo
16,479 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jɔl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yole is uncommon French at frequency #83,519 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \jɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de petit canot léger qui va à la voile et à l’aviron.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for yole, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is yole, spelled Y-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de petit canot léger qui va à la voile et à l’aviron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je fis préparer la yole et j'y fis embarquer le cylindre de fer-blanc qui contenait les cartes déjà dressées, les quatre montres marines, un cercle de réflexion, les trois atlas…
Chaque famille possède une yole, bateau léger, étroit et long, qui peut contenir six personnes, indispensable pour circuler dans cette contrée bizarre, et que dirige l’yoleur au moyen d’une longue perche qu'il manie avec adresse.
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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