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jodel

jodel is the alternative spelling of yodel.

Meaning of yodel

Verb

yodel (third-person singular simple present yodels, present participle (US) yodeling or (UK) yodelling, simple past and past participle (US) yodeled or (UK) yodelled)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.

See all 3 meanings of yodel

Forms of jodel

third-person singular presentjodels
present participle USjodeling
present participle UKjodelling
past participle USjodeled
past USjodeled
past participle UKjodelled
past UKjodelled

Words formed from jodel

Questions about jodel

What is jodel the alternative spelling of?
Jodel is the alternative spelling of yodel.

Words near jodel in the dictionary

  1. jod
  2. Jod-Basedow effect
  3. Jod-Basedow phenomenon
  4. Joda-Time
  5. jodave
  6. jodel
  7. jodeled
  8. jodeler
  9. jodelers
  10. jodeling
  11. jodelled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jodel (page history and authors); yodel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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