y
Portuguese, letter
y is spelled Y (one letter) and appears 69 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,387th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Y is a Portuguese masculine letter meaning “The twenty-fifth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Y is a different word: “fork (area where something forks)”.
What does y mean in English?
letter
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masculineThe twenty-fifth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
letter
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masculineThe twenty-fifth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
noun
- 1
masculinefork (area where something forks)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ípsilon, a vigésima quinta letra do alfabeto latino
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of y
- Y uppercase
- y lowercase
- Ys plural
- Y, y canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to y
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is y in Portuguese?
y appears 69 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).