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Plural of yell

regular plural

The plural of yell is yells.

Forms of yell

Singularyell /jɛl/
Pluralyells
Countablecountable

Yells in a sentence

  • I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.From the entry because
  • Yes, I’m veering closely into “old man yells at clouds” territory, though that’s the point.2023 April 12, Matthew Byrd, “Resident Evil 4’s Microtransactions Ruin One of the Remake’s Best Features”, in Den of Geek, archived from…. From the entry old man yells at clouds
  • Their mom yells up the stairs but keeps feeding the baby.2017, T. L. York, The Boy and the Magical Shell, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, pages 4–5. From the entry momma's boy
  • She yells at people who manhandle the tomatoes or break the beans.1996 April 21, Barbara Stewart, “Another Harvest: One Farm, One Life”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Nov 2012. From the entry manhandle
  • A man behind the counter looks up and yells at me.1952, Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher, published 2007, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry snap it up

Meaning of yell

  1. verb To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
  2. verb To convey by shouting.
  3. verb To tell someone off, to scold or rebuke, typically in a loud and angry manner.

Full definition of yell

Questions about the plural of yell

What is the plural of yell?
The plural of yell is yells.
Is yell countable?
Yell is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yell (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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