yee
/jiː/pronoun, interjection
yee is spelled Y-E-E: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a pronoun, yee means “You (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in yee?
| Letters | 3: Y-E-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is yee?
Yee appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st 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).
How do you pronounce yee?
- /jiː/
Yee has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-yee.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with yee
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: ye.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with yee?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as yee.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: eye.
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 yee
- ye
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does yee mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
pronoun
- 1
You (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye.
- 2
obsoleteObsolete form of ye.
interjection
- 1
slangyes, yeah
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).