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yellowwood

noun

yellowwood is spelled Y-E-L-L-O-W-W-O-O-D: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, yellowwood means “Any of the tree genus Cladrastis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of yellowwood is yellowwoods.

How many letters and syllables are in yellowwood?

Letters10: Y-E-L-L-O-W-W-O-O-D
In writingabout once in every 63 million words; the 249,463rd 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 yellowwood?

Yellowwood appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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 yellowwood

  • yellowwoods plural

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

What does yellowwood mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of the tree genus Cladrastis.

  2. 2

    Flindersia xanthoxyla, a tall rainforest tree of Australia.

  3. 3

    The Osage orange tree.

  4. 4

    Any of the conifer genus Podocarpus.

  5. 5

    Sarcomelicope simplicifolia, a small rainforest tree of Australia.

  6. 6

    Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum, thorny yellowwood, of Australia

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

Where does yellowwood come from?

From yellow + wood.

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

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