English Words: Y
2,763 words · Page 47 of 56
A noticeable shift in society or culture in response to the activities or tastes of younger members of the culture.
To explain youth issues (as a youth) to someone much older, especially in a condescending manner.
A type of deep-fried dough stick eaten in China and other East and Southeast Asian cuisines.
On YouTube, a style of video mashups composed of clips from preexisting media with visual and auditory effects for humorous or surreal purposes.
The video-sharing platform YouTube, regarded as an (often informal or low-quality) source of knowledge.
A village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1419).
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 47. 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.