yawl
/jɔl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest."
- "Something scraped slightly against the outer wall. But the night was full of wilder sounds, and in the house the furniture and the boards creaked and sprung between the yawling of the wind among the chimneys, the rattle of the thunder and the pelting of the rain."
Etymology
Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /jɔl/
- British English: /jɔːl/