yodel

Other forms of yodel

plural

yodels·

past tense or participle

yodelled

present participle

yodelling

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 yodel

What does yodel mean?

yodel means "a songlike cry in which the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal voice and falsetto". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yodel?

yodel has 2 syllables: yo-del. The stress falls on "yo". In IPA it is /ˈjoʊdəl/.

What is another word for yodel?

Close synonyms include warble, descant. 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 yodel a common word?

yodel 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.