yawp

Other forms of yawp

past tense

yawped·

present participle

yawping·

third person

yawps·

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 yawp

What does yawp mean?

yawp means "make a raucous noise". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yawp?

yawp has 1 syllable: yawp.

What is another word for yawp?

Close synonyms include bawl, whine, grizzle, yammer. 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 yawp a common word?

yawp 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.