yup
\ˈjʌp\
The verdict
“yup” is uncommon French (frequency #54,345 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,345
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yup · yup · French
yup · rank #54,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,345
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH yours
Nearest frequency peer: yours (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « yup »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yougoslaves
yougoslaves
45,659 corpus weight
- yours
yours
45,657 corpus weight
- yup
yup
45,656 corpus weight
- éblouis
éblouis
45,655 corpus weight
- échangeait
échangeait
45,654 corpus weight
- échauffouré…
échauffourées
45,653 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yup » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ˈjʌp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yup » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yup is uncommon French at frequency #54,345 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ˈjʌp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ouais.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for yup in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is yup, spelled Y-U-P.
Definition
- 1Ouais.
Antonyms
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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