English Words: Y
2,763 words · Page 16 of 56
A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries.
A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1892).
A form of Chinese ritual music performed at imperial courts since the Zhou Dynasty, and usually associated with Confucianism.
A city in Iran, the seat of Yazd County's Central District and the capital of Yazd Province.
A transliteration of the Middle Persian male given name 𐭩𐭦𐭣𐭪𐭫𐭲𐭩 (yzdklty) or 𐭩𐭦𐭣𐭪𐭥𐭲𐭩 (Yazdegerd, Yazdgird), notably borne by several Sassanid kings.
A fretless harp of ancient Tamil origin, with a variable number of gut strings, characterized by a boat-shaped resonator.
member of a Kurdish-speaking people of northern Iraq, Armenia and Caucasus, whose religion is Yazidism
The religion of Yazidis, a highly syncretic complex of local beliefs and Islamic doctrine.
The first Latin alphabet used during the Soviet epoch of Latinization from 1928 until 1938.
Initialism of yttrium barium copper oxide: component elements used in the manufacture of one type of high-temperature superconducting material.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter Y contains 2,763 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 56 pages, and you are currently viewing page 16. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "Y" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.