yolo
\jòlò\
The verdict
“yolo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,608
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Scorpion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yolo · yolo · French
yolo · rank #38,608 · 5 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,608
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Yolande
Nearest frequency peer: Yolande (-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 « yolo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht
61,397 corpus weight
- Yolande
Yolande
61,394 corpus weight
- yolo
yolo
61,393 corpus weight
- yoyo
yoyo
61,392 corpus weight
- ébranlée
ébranlée
61,391 corpus weight
- échafaud
échafaud
61,390 corpus weight
What this shows « yolo » 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 | yolo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jòlò\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « yolo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around yolo (IPA \jòlò\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,608 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Scorpion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for yolo, with forms such as "oylo", "yloo", and "yollo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "you", "yon", "York", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 yolo, spelled Y-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Scorpion.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oylo
- yloo
- yollo
- yool
- yyolo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yolo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).