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yoh

interjection, pronoun

yoh is spelled Y-O-H: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, yoh means “Expresses surprise, wonder, admiration, frustration, shock, or distress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in yoh?

Letters3: Y-O-H
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 78,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is yoh?

Yoh appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th 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 yoh?

    Yoh 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).

    Words people confuse with yoh

    Also written: yo.

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    What rhymes with yoh?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as yoh.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: hoy.

    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).

    What does yoh mean?

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

    interjection

    1. 1

      Expresses surprise, wonder, admiration, frustration, shock, or distress.

    2. 2

      colloquialAlternative form of yo (any meaning in etymology 1)

    pronoun

    1. 1

      colloquialPronunciation spelling of you

    2. 2

      colloquialPronunciation spelling of your

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

    Where does yoh come from?

    From Afrikaans and Xhosa.

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

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