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yola

noun

yola is spelled Y-O-L-A: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, yola means “cocaine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in yola?

Letters4: Y-O-L-A
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 74,980th 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 yola?

Yola appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th 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 yola?

    Yola has 2 syllables (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).

    What rhymes with yola?

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

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: olay.

    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 yola mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      USslangcocaine

      We yayo experts, we been whippin' the yola / Since the crackas decided to take the coke from Coca-Cola.

    noun

    as Yola
    1. 1

      Alternative form of Jola.

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

    Where does yola come from?

    Northern California slang, said to be from a blend of Spanish yo and hola.

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

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