English Words: Y
2,763 words · Page 48 of 56
A troparion chanted at orthros and the midnight office on Sundays and the Great Feasts throughout the liturgical year, which emphasizes the theme of being sent to proclaim the gospel.
An inhabitant of the city of Ypres; (also, more broadly) an inhabitant of the municipality of the same name.
The amorphous post-larval stage of the crustacean Hansenocaris, a parasite whose host is unknown.
The state of a nucleus with minimum energy, but excluding the yrast. The second-least excited state for a given angular momentum.
The state of a nucleus with minimum energy (i.e. when least excited) for a given angular momentum.
Initialism of Yangtze River Delta: a region eastern China, bordering the East China Sea; An area on the east coast of China, containing Shanghai, Nanjing (“Nanking”), Suzhou (“Soochow”), Hangzhou (“Hangchow”).
A southern suburb of the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0505).
A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN7608).
A village and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9895).
A town and community with a town council in south-west Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SN7810).
A village in Penllyn community, Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0177).
A river in Aberdeenshire council area, north-eastern Scotland, which flows into the North Sea.
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 48. 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.