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yallah

interjection

yallah is spelled Y-A-L-L-A-H: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, yallah means “c'mon, come on, let's go” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in yallah?

Letters6: Y-A-L-L-A-H
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th 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 yallah?

Yallah appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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 yallah

  • yalla

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

What does yallah mean?

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

interjection

  1. 1

    slangc'mon, come on, let's go

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

Where does yallah come from?

From Arabic ياالله (“c'mon”).

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

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