yare
/jɛɹ/adjective, noun
yare is an adjective meaning “Ready, alert, prepared, prompt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Y-A-R-E, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does yare mean?
adjective
- 1
archaicReady; prepared.
- 2
UKReady, alert, prepared, prompt.
- 3
Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
- 4
Easily manageable and responsive to the helm; yar.
adverb
- 1
archaicYarely.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of yair.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce yare?
- UK /jɛː/
- US /jɛɹ/
- /jeːɹ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-yare.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of yare
- yarer comparative
- yarest superlative
- yar
- more yare comparative
- most yare superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is yare?
Yare appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th 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).
Words people confuse with yare
Sounds like: yair (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: yair.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does yare come from?
From Middle English yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).