yucca
\ju.ka\
The verdict
“yucca” is uncommon French (frequency #78,066 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,066
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel donné à de nombreuses plantes du genre Yucca de la famille des Asparagaceae (Asparagacées).
Corpus desk
Index FR-yucca · yucca · French
yucca · rank #78,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,066
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH yat
Nearest frequency peer: yat (-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 « yucca »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- xhosa
xhosa
21,939 corpus weight
- yana
yana
21,938 corpus weight
- yat
yat
21,937 corpus weight
- yucca
yucca
21,935 corpus weight
- zoologiste
zoologiste
21,933 corpus weight
- zot
zot
21,932 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yucca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yucca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ju.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yucca » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yucca is uncommon French at frequency #78,066 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ju.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom usuel donné à de nombreuses plantes du genre Yucca de la famille des Asparagaceae (Asparagacées).".
No misspelling variants are generated for yucca in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is yucca, spelled Y-U-C-C-A.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel donné à de nombreuses plantes du genre Yucca de la famille des Asparagaceae (Asparagacées).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yucca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cactus et yuccas jalonnaient l’Interstate 8, ce rouleau d’asphalte qui s’étirait comme un interminable chemin de croix au milieu d’un décor lunaire.
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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