yeet
/jiːt/
"yeet" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yeet” is uncommon English (frequency #52,733 among 2,763 “Y” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,733
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Expressing excitement or approval.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yeet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /jiːt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yeet” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yeet is uncommon English at frequency #52,733 among 2,763 “Y” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /jiːt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
yeet has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Popularized in March 2014 by the "yeet" dance which went viral on the now-defunct video sharing site Vine. The earliest known yeet dance is recorded in a YouTube video uploaded on February 3, 2014. However, examples of the interjection can be found much ear… The correct English form is yeet, spelled Y-E-E-T.
Definition
- 1Expressing excitement or approval.
- 2A sudden expression used while throwing something, especially with force.
Etymology
Popularized in March 2014 by the "yeet" dance which went viral on the now-defunct video sharing site Vine. The earliest known yeet dance is recorded in a YouTube video uploaded on February 3, 2014. However, examples of the interjection can be found much earlier, including a 1998 use by British presenter Jeremy Clarkson as well as a 2008 definition of "yeet yeet" on Urban Dictionary. As an expression used when throwing something, apparently coined by Vine user David Banna in a Vine uploaded on or before March 28, 2014 in which he throws a CD and yells out "YEET!", as well as a Vine uploaded April 4, 2014 of a high school student hurling an empty soda can and shouting "This bitch empty! YEET!" After the 2014 trend, the term faded into relative obscurity before resurging in 2018.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “yeet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Y-E-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /jiːt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.