yoyo
Spanish, noun
yoyo is spelled Y-O-Y-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 76,156th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Yoyo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “alternative form of yoyó” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, yoyó is a different word: “yo-yo”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante de yoyó”.
What does yoyo mean in English?
noun
- 1
MexicoUSmasculinealternative form of yoyó
noun
- 1
masculineyo-yo
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. juguete formado por un disco con una ranura profunda en el lateral, sobre la cual se enrolla un cordón que, anudado a un dedo, se hace subir y bajar alternadamente.
noun: 1. Variante de yoyó.
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 yoyo
- yoyos plural
- yoyós plural
- yoyo alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is yoyo in Spanish?
yoyo appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).