Definitions for yods

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Spelling: [yoo d; Hebrew yawd]
IPA: /yʊd; Hebrew yɔd/

Yods is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in yods (dosy).

Definitions for yods

noun

  1. the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
  2. any of the sounds represented by this letter.

Origin of yods

1725-35; Hebrew yōdh, akin to yādh hand

Examples for yods

Otherwise ϝ would have been used for the vowel υ, just as the Phoenician consonant yod became the vowel ι.

Being numbered ten, its Hebrew letter is yod, the hieroglyphic meaning of which is the forefinger extended as a sign of command.

But the explanation of the yod is to be fetched from Eccles.

Do yo reckon, Capn, yod let me pilot the Restless out o this harbor and some o the way down the bay?

But yod better take him back with you when you go, Miss Ruth, He needs somebody to take care of himsho do!

In these inscriptions the yod (iota) is represented by a simple point.

Noah replied, “I can only send one of the two birds whose first letter is either Ain or yod.”

Word Value for yods
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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