yey
interjection
yey is an interjection meaning “Alternative spelling of yay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Y-E-Y, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does yey mean?
interjection
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Alternative spelling of yay.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is yey?
Yey appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 88,353rd 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).
Words people confuse with yey
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: yay.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).