youyou
\ju.ju\
The verdict
“youyou” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit canot chinois utilisé en rivière ou dans des zones marines abritées et qui se manœuvre soit à l’aviron soit à la godille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-youyou · youyou · French
youyou · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Y" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « youyou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
youyou is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ju.ju\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for youyou, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is youyou, spelled Y-O-U-Y-O-U.
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).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how youyou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maintenant, camarade… marchons vite jusqu’au port. Je ne serai tranquille que lorsque nous aurons le pied sur le youyou.
Nous étions deux garçons, deux filles Sur un petit youyou de bois Il s’appelait Nina gentille Et nous allions à Cuba.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.