English Words: Y
2,763 words · Page 29 of 56
A period of intense political repression and mass purges in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s, particularly from 1937 to 1938.
Initialism of younger father's brother's daughter; father's brother's daughter younger than oneself.
Initialism of YouTube Farm Gang Army, an informal trolling organization and anti-fandom group that is primarily active on social media, such as YouTube, and targets certain YouTubers by commenting on their videos.
Initialism of younger father's sister's daughter; father's sister's daughter younger than oneself.
An immense ash tree that is central in Norse cosmology, believed to connect the nine worlds.
A fictional city heavily featuring Gothic Revival architecture that is the primary setting of the 2015 videogame Bloodborne.
The deity worshipped in Abrahamitic religions, Yahweh, called Adonai in Judaism due to a taboo on using the full name, and God and the Lord in Christianity.
The prohibition in Jewish religious law against seclusion in a private area of a man and a woman who are not married to each other, so as to prevent adultery or promiscuity.
A type of deity associated with tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism said to be manifestations of Buddhahood or enlightened mind.
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 29. 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.