youhou

/\ju.u\/ intj

The verdict

“youhou” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #41,080 in French word frequency and used as an interjection.

#41,080
frequency rank, French
6
letters
7
tracked misspellings

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cri de joie.

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)

Where “youhou” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). youhou lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for youhou is 6 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ju.u\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,080 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cri de joie.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for youhou, with forms such as "oyuhou", "yohuou", and "youhhou". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is youhou, spelled Y-O-U-H-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cri de joie.

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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.

Edit distance from "youhou"

oyuhou2yohuou2youhhou1youhuo2youohu2yuohou2yyouhou1
Edit distance from "youhou"

Frequency rank: #41,080 in French

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?
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Using “youhou”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Y-O-U-H-O-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ju.u\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter Y in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.