yafo

Questions about yafo

What does yafo mean?

yafo means "a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950".

How many syllables are in yafo?

yafo has 2 syllables and divides as ya-fo under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for yafo?

Close synonyms include Jaffa, Joppa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yafo a common word?

yafo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.