yoruba
\jɔ.ʁu.ba\
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
- XVIIème
XVIIème
35,120 corpus weight
- yakuzas
yakuzas
35,119 corpus weight
- yoruba
yoruba
35,118 corpus weight
- yézidis
yézidis
35,117 corpus weight
- Ziguinchor
Ziguinchor
35,116 corpus weight
- âpreté
âpreté
35,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yoruba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yoruba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \jɔ.ʁu.ba\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yoruba » en français
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
- 1Relatif aux Yorubas en tant que peuple, à leur culture, à leur langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yoruba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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