yaup

Other forms of yaup

past tense

yauped·

present participle

yauping·

third person

yaups·

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 yaup

What does yaup mean?

yaup means "emit long loud cries".

How many syllables are in yaup?

yaup has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. 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 yaup?

Close synonyms include howl, ululate, wail, roar, yawl. 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 yaup a common word?

yaup is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.