yield
/jiːld/verb, noun
yield is spelled Y-I-E-L-D. The wrong spelling people search most is yeild: about 570 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Yield is a verb meaning “To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render”.
How many letters and syllables are in yield?
| Letters | 5: Y-I-E-L-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, yeild, about 570 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell yield?
Yield is spelled Y-I-E-L-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for yield in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is yield?
Yield appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th 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).
How do you pronounce yield?
- /jiːld/
Yield has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-yield.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with yield?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as yield.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ylide.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of yield
- yields present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- yielding participle, present
- yielded past, participle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does yield mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
This method generally yields better results.
- 2
To produce as return from an investment.
Historically, that security yields a high return.
- 3
To produce as a result.
Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
- 4
To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
- 5
obsoleteTo give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- 6
To give as demanded; to relinquish.
They refuse to yield to the enemy.
- 7
USTo give way so as to allow another to pass first.
Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
- 8
To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.
noun
- 1
A product.
- 2
Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.
- 3
The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
- 4
The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
- 5
The volume of water escaping from a spring.
- 6
The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- 7
Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
- 8
The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate yield?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of yield: yld..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Yield in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | céder, laisser passer , se rendre, capituler , rapporter , rendement |
| German | nachgeben, Platz machen, Vorfahrt gewähren, vorbeilassen, gewähren , aufgeben |
| Portuguese | dar preferência, ceder passagem , ceder , resultar , produção, rendimento |
| Spanish | ceder, ceder el paso , producir, dar, rendir , rendimiento |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does yield come from?
From Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Doublet of geld. The noun is from Middle English ȝeld (“tax, payment”), from Old English ġield (“payment”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld (“payment”), from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).