youhou

\ju.u\

/\ju.u\/ intj

The verdict

“youhou” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,080. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,080
frequency rank, French
198
“Y” headwords
7
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cri de joie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-youhou · youhou · French

youhou · rank #41,080 · 7 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,080
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 198
  • PHOTO-FINISH Yasmine

Nearest frequency peer: Yasmine (-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 « youhou »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « youhou » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for youhou
PropertyValue
Headwordyouhou
LanguageFrench
Part of speechInterjection
IPA\ju.u\
Letters6
Frequency rank#41,080
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « youhou »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).youhouse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Yasmine » (#41,079), « Youssouf » (#41,081), « xo » (#41,078). Parmi 198 lemmes en « Y », « youhou » est au #41,080. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around youhou (IPA \ju.u\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #41,080 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cri de joie.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for youhou, with forms such as "oyuhou", "yohuou", and "youhhou". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is youhou, spelled Y-O-U-H-O-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cri de joie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Vos supérieurs aiment votre créativité et vous pourriez obtenir une prime. Youhou !
  2. Youhou ! On va se baigner à la rivière, génial ! Youhou !

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oyuhou
  • yohuou
  • youhhou
  • youhuo
  • youohu
  • yuohou
  • yyouhou

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of youhou - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

oyuhou2yohuou2youhhou1youhuo2youohu2yuohou2yyouhou1
Edit distance from "youhou"

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 "youhou"?
"youhou" is spelled Y-O-U-H-O-U. The IPA pronunciation is \ju.u\.
What does "youhou" mean?
As an interjection, "youhou" means: Cri de joie.
What are common misspellings of "youhou"?
Common misspellings include "oyuhou", "yohuou", "youhhou", "youhuo", "youohu". The correct spelling is "youhou".
How do you pronounce "youhou"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "youhou" is \ju.u\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "youhou" come from?
"youhou" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list