# yacht vs yat

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### yacht
*noun · IPA /jɒt/ · frequency rank #9,425*
A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.

### yat
*noun · frequency rank #48,026*
A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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