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yinzer

noun

yinzer is spelled Y-I-N-Z-E-R: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, yinzer means “A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of yinzer is yinzers.

How many letters and syllables are in yinzer?

Letters6: Y-I-N-Z-E-R
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th 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 yinzer?

Yinzer appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 yinzer

  • yinzers plural

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

What does yinzer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalA native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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

Where does yinzer come from?

From yinz + -er, in reference to the Pittsburgh dialect's use of that pronoun.

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

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