yah
/jʌː/adverb, interjection, noun, pronoun
yah is spelled Y-A-H: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, yah means “Yes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in yah?
| Letters | 3: Y-A-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is yah?
Yah appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 yah?
- /jʌː/
- /jɑː/
As a noun (“An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger”): /jɑː/.
Yah has one syllable (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-yah.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with yah?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as yah.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: hay.
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 yah
- yahs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does yah mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
AustraliaIndiaUKUSYes.
Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.
interjection
- 1
An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster.
noun
- 1
UKinformalAn upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.
pronoun
- 1
Pronunciation spelling of you.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Yah in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense expression used to encourage a horse to run faster:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hue |
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 yah come from?
An alternative pronunciation, equivalent of yeah and yes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).