tyee
noun
tyee is spelled T-Y-E-E: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tyee means “A tribal chief of the Chinookan peoples in the Pacific Northwest of the United States” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tyee is tyees.
How many letters and syllables are in tyee?
| Letters | 4: T-Y-E-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tyee?
Tyee appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
What rhymes with tyee?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tyee.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: yeet.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tyee
- tyees plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tyee mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A tribal chief of the Chinookan peoples in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- 2
CanadaA large chinook salmon that weighs more than 13.5 kg.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tyee come from?
Borrowed from Chinook.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).