Spanish Words: Y
1,840 words · Page 11 of 37
(Butia yatay) Especie de planta de la familia de las palmeras (Arecaceae). Es la palmera más alta del género Butia. De hojas pinnadas, curvas y rígidas, con folíolos ensiformes y el raquis bordeado de espinas punzantes. De sus pequeños frutos se fabrica aguardiente y las yemas terminales son comestibles y se las utiliza como alimento para el ganado.
(Xanthosoma sagittifolium) Planta herbácea de la familia de las Aráceas, originario de la América tropical, carece de tallo aéreo y tiene hojas grandes, acorazonadas, con rizoma comestible.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish alphabetical index for the letter Y contains 1,840 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 37 pages, and you are currently viewing page 11. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented Spanish headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "Y" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.