yuri
\ju.ʁi\
The verdict
“yuri” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,582. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,582
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sous-genre de manga qui présente des relations féminines plus ou moins homosexuelles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yuri · yuri · French
yuri · rank #26,582 · 5 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,582
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH écartant
Nearest frequency peer: écartant (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « yuri »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- votera
votera
73,423 corpus weight
- voteront
voteront
73,422 corpus weight
- vénitien
vénitien
73,421 corpus weight
- yuri
yuri
73,419 corpus weight
- écartant
écartant
73,418 corpus weight
- éditée
éditée
73,416 corpus weight
What this shows « yuri » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | yuri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ju.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « yuri »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around yuri (IPA \ju.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,582 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sous-genre de manga qui présente des relations féminines plus ou moins homosexuelles.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for yuri, with forms such as "uyri", "yrui", and "yuir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "yu", "yi", "yum", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is yuri, spelled Y-U-R-I.
Definition
- 1Sous-genre de manga qui présente des relations féminines plus ou moins homosexuelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yuri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le manga du 24 décembre ! (Mais il y en aura encore un pour demain) Encore un yuri qui devrait être édité en France depuis des années, c'est honteux qu'il soit pas chez nous !
Opposé au yaoi, le yuri est lui exclusivement centré sur les relations intimes entre personnages féminins. Bien qu’ils ne courent pas les rues, et sont loin d’être les animés les plus vus, ils sont pourtant bel et bien présents. Et peut-être plus que vous ne le pensez !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uyri
- yrui
- yuir
- yurri
- yyuri
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yuri - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).