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yali

noun

yali is spelled Y-A-L-I: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, yali means “A type of house, particularly found on the Bosporus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of yali is yalis.

How many letters and syllables are in yali?

Letters4: Y-A-L-I
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th 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 yali?

Yali appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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).

Forms of yali

  • yalis plural

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

What does yali mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A type of house, particularly found on the Bosporus.

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

Where does yali come from?

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یالی (yalı), from Greek γιαλός (gialós).

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

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