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Is yo a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word yo is a Scrabble US word. The word yo is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is yo a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word yo is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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Yes. The word yo is a Words With Friends word. The word yo is worth 4 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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Definitions and meaning of yo

yo

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /jəʊ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ
  • (US) IPA(key): /joʊ/

King Yo Yo Olds was born (April/5/1996) in Mobile Alabama. He become one of the Greatest and also the best Professional Pool Player of all times. But when it comes to the point that when you begin it ends. He once quoted “ I’m great” but there more to it. He is “ The Head Of The Temple”. He’ll rip every person heads who ever been in a table for awhile. 8 balls is what he experience come from. Sometimes he can be depressed but his feelings is different. His thoughts was cool but his last time on words “I don’t have friendships”. That’s what makes him much more happier than being mad

Etymology 2

From you're, your, etc.

Alternative forms

  • yo'

Contraction

yo

  1. (African-American Vernacular) Contraction of you are.

Determiner

yo

  1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of your.
    Yo sandwich has only bacon in it. Want some ketchup on that?

Pronoun

yo

  1. (Baltimore) third-person singular, familiar
    Yo was tuckin' in his shirt! (Stotko and Troyer 2007)
Synonyms
  • (greeting): hey, hi; see also Category:Greetings
  • (interjection): hey

Etymology 3

Noun

yo

  1. Initialism of year/years old.
  2. (crochet) Initialism of yarn over.

Etymology 4

From Russian ё (jo).

Noun

yo (plural yos)

  1. The letter Ё, ё.
Translations

Etymology 5

Numeral

yo

  1. Short for yoleven.

Anagrams

  • oy

Aragonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo. Akin to Spanish yo and Portuguese eu.

Pronoun

yo

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

Asturian

Etymology

From Old Leonese yo, from Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego.

Pronoun

yo

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish yo.

Pronoun

yo (accusative conmigo)

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English yo.

Interjection

yo

  1. (slang) yo
    • 2016, Lisbeth Zornig, Mikael Lindholm, Bundfald, Art People →ISBN
      “Yo!” Mathias så op.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /joː/
  • Hyphenation: yo
  • Rhymes: -oː

Interjection

yo

  1. (slang) yo (informal greeting, interjection similar to hey)

Guerrero Amuzgo

Adjective

yo

  1. with

Haitian Creole

Article

yo pl

  1. the

Usage notes

This word is only used in its article sense when it modifies a plural noun.

See also

  • a
  • an
  • la
  • lan
  • nan
  • sa a (emphatic value)
  • yon (indef. art.)

Pronoun

yo (contracted form y)

  1. they
  2. them

Japanese

Romanization

yo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of よ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ヨ

Kristang

Pronoun

yo

  1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

See also

References

Ladino

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jo/, /jɔ/

Pronoun

yo (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ייו‎)

  1. I

Lashi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *hja, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hja. Cognates include Jingpho yi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jo˧/, [ju˧˩]

Noun

yo

  1. field
  2. farm

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jo˧/

Noun

yo

  1. peace

Etymology 3

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ja. Cognates include Jingpho kăya.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /joː˧/, [jɔ˧˨]

Noun

yo

  1. itch

References

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), pages 15-16

Lingala

Pronoun

yo

  1. Alternative form of yɔ̂

Lower Tanana

Noun

yo

  1. sky

References

  • James Kari, Lower Tanana Athabaskan Listening and Writing Exercises (1991)

Mandarin

Romanization

yo (Zhuyin ˙ㄧㄛ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 喲, 哟
  2. Pinyin transcription of 嚛, 𪠸

yo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of yō.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

yo

  1. Alternative form of yow

Etymology 2

Pronoun

yo

  1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Noone

Noun

yo (plural yɔ́)

  1. snake

References

  • R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

Norman

Alternative forms

  • iâo (continental Normandy)
  • iaoue (Guernsey)
  • ieau (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French yaue, ewe, euwe, egua (“water”), from Latin aqua (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”).

Noun

yo f (plural yos)

  1. (Sark) water

Pali

Alternative forms

Pronoun

yo

  1. masculine nominative singular of ya (“who (relative)”)

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō; akin to Greek εγώ (egó), Sanskrit अहम् (aham), all from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Akin to Italian io.

Pronunciation

    • Pronoun

    yo

    1. First-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I

    Usage notes

    • When more pronouns are included in the same sentence, it is considered impolite to say the pronoun yo at first; it must be the last one, and tú must be said after absent (this applies also for ti and mí):

    Derived terms

    See also

    Noun

    yo m (plural yos or yoes)

    1. (psychoanalysis) Freud's concept of the ego

    Xhosa

    Pronoun

    -yo

    1. Combining stem of yona.

    Zulu

    Pronoun

    -yo

    1. Combining stem of yona.

    Source: wiktionary.org
    • YMPE, (Spenser) to imp.
      (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)