yuzu
\ju.zu\
The verdict
“yuzu” is uncommon French (frequency #77,166 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,166
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agrume originaire de l’est de l’Asie (Citrus junos), hybride de mandarine sauvage (C. reticulata var. austera) et de citron d’Ichang (Citrus ichangensis).
Corpus desk
Index FR-yuzu · yuzu · French
yuzu · rank #77,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,166
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH yuna
Nearest frequency peer: yuna (-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 « yuzu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Yamazaki
Yamazaki
22,839 corpus weight
- yuna
yuna
22,836 corpus weight
- yuzu
yuzu
22,835 corpus weight
- zink
zink
22,834 corpus weight
- zoophile
zoophile
22,833 corpus weight
- Zora
Zora
22,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yuzu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yuzu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ju.zu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yuzu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yuzu is uncommon French at frequency #77,166 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ju.zu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Agrume originaire de l’est de l’Asie (Citrus junos), hybride de mandarine sauvage (C. reticulata var. austera) et de citron d’Ichang (Citrus ichangensis).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for yuzu in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is yuzu, spelled Y-U-Z-U.
Definition
- 1Agrume originaire de l’est de l’Asie (Citrus junos), hybride de mandarine sauvage (C. reticulata var. austera) et de citron d’Ichang (Citrus ichangensis).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yuzu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le yuzu a un goût subtil et très parfumé.
Carpaccio de maquereau mariné au yuzu et baies de sansho, rouget dans un bouillon corsé à la feuille de « sakura », canard de Challans rôti au vieux saké.
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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