yowl

1. 1.

   a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

   “his bellow filled the hallway”

   Synonymsbellowbellowinghollahollerholleringholloholloaroarroaring

   Broadercry

Other forms of yowl

plural

yowls·

past tense

yowled·

present participle

yowling·

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 yowl

What does yowl mean?

yowl means "cry loudly, as of animals". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yowl?

yowl has 1 syllable: yowl.

What is another word for yowl?

Close synonyms include howl, wrawl, yammer, caterwaul, bellow. 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 yowl a common word?

yowl 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.