English Words: Y
2,763 words · Page 27 of 56
A question that can only be answered by yes or no and does not allow for elaboration or detail.
An atmosphere in which people claim to agree with leadership for political reasons, despite holding other opinions privately.
Pronunciation spelling of yessir, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Used to express agreement with a woman (and, somewhat less commonly, a man): yes, ma'am.
That which was captured or caught on the previous day or former occasion; a previous day's catch.
A day in the sequence of days from past to future, emphasizing the connection between past and future events.
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 27. 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.