yep
/jɛp/
yep interjection: yes.
Interjection
Noun
yep (plural yeps)
- Yes.
- I'll take that as a yep, then.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: YEP
YEP
- Initialism of Yorkshire Evening Post.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Yep
Yep (plural Yeps)
- A surname from Cantonese.
yep meaning in Arabic, Persian and Vietnamese
yep in Arabic
- informal "yes"
- أَيْوَة ʔaywa, إِيَّة ʔiyya, آ ʔā
yep in Persian
- informal "yes"
- آره âre
yep in Vietnamese
- informal "yes"
- ừ, ờ
Examples of yep in a sentence
- "Yep," he said and he looked down at his mudcovered boots.
- “Yep.” He viewed the scene with a hand shading his eyes, then grinned at Billy.
- “Yep, that seems like yesterday when my life was a freakin’ fairytale.
Antonyms of yep
Forms of yep
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | yeps |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Yeps |
Origin of yep
Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (yeah + -p). Compare yup and nope. Compare also German jap (“yep”).
From Cantonese 葉 /叶 (jip⁶).
Words that rhyme with yep
Questions about yep
- What does yep mean?
- Yep means yes.
- What is yep in Arabic?
- Yep in Arabic is أَيْوَة (ʔaywa), إِيَّة (ʔiyya), آ (ʔā). See Yep meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is yep?
- Yep can be an interjection, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce yep?
- Yep is pronounced /jɛp/.
Words near yep in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: yep (page history and authors); YEP (page history and authors); Yep (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yep.wav, LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-yep.wav.
Cite this entry: “yep.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yep. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.