yawl

Other forms of yawl

plural

yawls·

past tense

yawled·

present participle

yawling·

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 yawl

What does yawl mean?

yawl means "a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yawl?

yawl has 1 syllable: yawl.

What is another word for yawl?

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

yawl 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.