English Words: Y
2,763 words · Page 55 of 56
A Japanese education policy that reduced the hours and content making up primary education, with the aim of lowering stress among students.
Former name of Pivdenne: a city in Odesa Raion, Odesa Oblast, in southern Ukraine; name used before November 2024.
A method of emergency contraception that uses a combination of ethinylestradiol and levonorgestrel. It works by preventing fertilization of an egg.
A citrus fruit originating in East Asia, Citrus ichangensis x Citrus reticulata var. austera.
A female given name from French borrowed from France, in regular use since the twentieth century.
Initialism of Youth With A Mission, an interdenominational Christian missionary organization.
A member of Youth With A Mission, an interdenominational Christian missionary organization.
Initialism of your wallet may vary: you may have more or less money to spend, or different financial priorities.
A geological formation near the Valley of Mexico, Mexico, from where some Hopi clans emerged into the Fourth World.
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 55. 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.