yoruba

\jɔ.ʁu.ba\

/\jɔ.ʁu.ba\/ adj

The verdict

“yoruba” is uncommon French (frequency #64,883 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,883
frequency rank, French
198
“Y” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Yorubas en tant que peuple, à leur culture, à leur langue.

Corpus desk

Index FR-yoruba · yoruba · French

yoruba · rank #64,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,883
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 198
  • PHOTO-FINISH yakuzas

Nearest frequency peer: yakuzas (-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 « yoruba »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yoruba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for yoruba
PropertyValue
Headwordyoruba
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\jɔ.ʁu.ba\
Letters6
Frequency rank#64,883
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « yoruba » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).yorubatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « yakuzas » (#64,882), « yézidis » (#64,884), « XVIIème » (#64,881). Parmi 198 lemmes en « Y », « yoruba » est au #64,883. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

yoruba is uncommon French at frequency #64,883 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \jɔ.ʁu.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux Yorubas en tant que peuple, à leur culture, à leur langue.".

yoruba has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is yoruba, spelled Y-O-R-U-B-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif aux Yorubas en tant que peuple, à leur culture, à leur langue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how yoruba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ife fut fondée vers 500 EC par le peuple yoruba — peuple de langue kwa du sud-ouest du Nigeria et du Bénin — mais ne prospéra qu’au début du 2^(ème) millénaire de notre ère.
  2. Considérés comme une bénédiction sacrée, les jumeaux sont privilégiés dans la société yoruba.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "yoruba"?
"yoruba" is spelled Y-O-R-U-B-A. The IPA pronunciation is \jɔ.ʁu.ba\.
What does "yoruba" mean?
As an adjective, "yoruba" means: Relatif aux Yorubas en tant que peuple, à leur culture, à leur langue.
How do you pronounce "yoruba"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "yoruba" is \jɔ.ʁu.ba\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "yoruba" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "yoruba", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list