yourte
\juʁt\
The verdict
“yourte” is uncommon French (frequency #64,184 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,184
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tente en peau ou en feutre des nomades mongols et turcs qui vivent en Asie centrale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yourte · yourte · French
yourte · rank #64,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,184
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH yelp
Nearest frequency peer: yelp (-2 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 « yourte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wsh
wsh
35,823 corpus weight
- Yee
Yee
35,820 corpus weight
- yelp
yelp
35,819 corpus weight
- yourte
yourte
35,817 corpus weight
- zaman
zaman
35,814 corpus weight
- éclairez
éclairez
35,813 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yourte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yourte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \juʁt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yourte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yourte is uncommon French at frequency #64,184 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \juʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tente en peau ou en feutre des nomades mongols et turcs qui vivent en Asie centrale.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for yourte, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is yourte, spelled Y-O-U-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Tente en peau ou en feutre des nomades mongols et turcs qui vivent en Asie centrale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yourte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au milieu du plateau, on apercevait une grande yourte de l’ancien modèle ouzbek, moitié hutte et moitié tente, habitation fixe et nomade à la fois, ronde à sa base, aiguë au sommet, faite en partie de laine brute et en partie de roseaux.
La migration permanente du bétail demandait une demeure transportable, c’était la yourte (en mongol guer).
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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