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holler

/ˈhɑlɚ/noun, verb, adjective

holler is spelled H-O-L-L-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,320th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “holler vs hollow” about 30 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, holler means “A yell, shout” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of holler is hollers.

How many letters and syllables are in holler?

Letters6: H-O-L-L-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 35,320th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is holler?

Holler appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,320th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce holler?

  • UK /ˈhɒlə/
  • British /ˈhɔlə/
  • US /ˈhɑlɚ/

Holler has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-holler.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with holler

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

holler vs hollow30 G

Also written: hollow.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with holler?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as holler from its last stressed vowel (/ɑləɹ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of holler

  • hollers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • hollar
  • hollering participle, present
  • hollered participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does holler mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A yell, shout.

    I heard a holler from over the fence.

  2. 2

    colloquialAny communication to get somebody's attention.

    If you need anything, just give me a holler.

  3. 3

    A field holler.

  4. 4

    Alternative form of hollow (narrow valley between mountains).

verb

  1. 1

    To yell or shout.

    You can holler at your computer as much as you want, but it won't help anything.

  2. 2

    To call out one or more words.

  3. 3

    To complain, to gripe.

adjective

  1. 1

    Alternative form of hollow.

    the holler tree

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Holler in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcri, hurlement (a yell, shout), crier, hurler (to yell, shout)
Germanlauter Ruf, lauter Schrei, Brüllen (a yell, shout), Zuruf, Bescheid (by extension, any communication to get…)
Portuguesegrito (a yell, shout), toque, lembrete (by extension, any communication to get…)
Spanishgrito, vociferación, voceo (a yell, shout), gritar, vociferar, vocear (to yell, shout)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does holler come from?

American variant of holla, hallo or hollo.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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