yu
\ju\
The verdict
“yu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,782) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,782
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne mesure de capacité valant 112 litres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yu · yu · French
yu · rank #15,782 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,782
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH vintage
Nearest frequency peer: vintage (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “yu”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Ulysse
Ulysse
84,222 corpus weight
- vintage
vintage
84,220 corpus weight
- yu
yu
84,219 corpus weight
- écouler
écouler
84,218 corpus weight
- équipées
équipées
84,217 corpus weight
- éradiquer
éradiquer
84,216 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yu” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ju\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #15,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “yu” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for yu is neighbouring look-alikes ("yum", "yuan", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ju\. Frequency #15,782 among 198 “Y” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for yu, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "yum", "yuan", "yuri", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is yu, spelled Y-U.
Definition
- 1Ancienne mesure de capacité valant 112 litres.
- 2Ancienne mesure de distance utilisé à Guangzhou (Canton) en Chine, elle valait 37,15 mètres.
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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- "yu" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "yum". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #15,782 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.