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yeyé

Spanish, noun/ʝeˈʝe/

yeyé is spelled Y-E-Y-É (4 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 162,009th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Yeyé is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “yé-yé” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does yeyé mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineyé-yé

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Estilo de música popular, principalmente entre la juventud de Francia, España, Italia y buena parte de Iberoamérica en la década de los 1960, influido por el soul y el pop ingleses. 2. Relacionado con este tipo de música. 3. Que le gusta este tipo de música y viste y se comporta de las formas asociadas a este estilo.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of yeyé

  • yeyés plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce yeyé?

  • /ʝeˈʝe/
  • [ɟ͡ʝeˈʝe]
  • [ʝeˈʝe]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is yeyé in Spanish?

yeyé appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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