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yage

/ˈjɑːheɪ/noun

yage is spelled Y-A-G-E: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, yage means “Ayahuasca” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in yage?

Letters4: Y-A-G-E
In writingabout once in every 66 million words; the 255,765th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is yage?

Yage appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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 yage?

  • /ˈjɑːheɪ/

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

Forms of yage

  • yagé
  • yaje

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

What does yage mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Ayahuasca.

noun

as yagé
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of yage.

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

Where does yage come from?

Borrowed from Spanish yagé, from Cofán yagé or yajé.

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

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