# ya vs yay

> French confusable word pair

## The two words

### ya
*noun · IPA \ja\ · frequency rank #2,305*
Couteau

### yay
*noun · IPA \jaj\ · frequency rank #39,105*
Trente-et-unième lettre de l’alphabet tifinagh, ⵢ.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/fr/vs/ya-vs-yay