# y vs yet

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### y
*character · IPA /ˈwaɪ/ · frequency rank #1,009*
The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script.

### yet
*adverb · IPA /jɛt/ · frequency rank #269*
Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/y-vs-yet