youyou
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
youyou is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit canot chinois utilisé en rivière ou dans des zones marines abritées et qui se manœuvre soit à l’aviron soit à la godille. Pronounced \ju.ju\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | youyou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ju.ju\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for youyou is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ju.ju\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for youyou in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 youyou, spelled Y-O-U-Y-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit canot chinois utilisé en rivière ou dans des zones marines abritées et qui se manœuvre soit à l’aviron soit à la godille.
- 2Petit canot court et large utilisé pour la navette entre les bateaux au mouillage et les quais.
- 3Canot pneumatique, généralement utilisé pour le sauvetage.
- 4Cri de joie ou de tristesse aigu modulé de type ululement poussé en certaines occasions par les femmes d’Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient.
- 5Variante de yoyo, beignets tunisiens.
- 6Espèce de perroquet (Poicephalus senegalus).
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