yahoo

Other forms of yahoo

plural

yahoos·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about yahoo

What does yahoo mean?

yahoo means "a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yahoo?

yahoo has 2 syllables: ya-hoo. The stress falls on "ya". In IPA it is /ˈjɑˌhu/.

What is another word for yahoo?

Close synonyms include yokel, rube, hick, hayseed, bumpkin. 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 yahoo a common word?

yahoo is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with yahoo?

3 words rhyme with yahoo. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.