Words with Y

4,269 common words with 2 to 15 letters contain Y; the most frequent are you, by, my and your. The most common length is 8 letters (597 words).

Word list

LengthWordsList
2 letters5shown below
3 letters68
4 letters161
5 letters469
6 letters594
7 letters584
8 letters597
9 letters546
10 letters441
11 letters315
12 letters240
13 letters143
14 letters69
15 letters37

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Source and licence

Word list: SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists by Kevin Atkinson; wordlist.aspell.net), size 60, US and British spellings, lower-case words a–z only (no names or abbreviations), including plurals and verb forms; of these only words with a frequency of at least 2.5 on the Zipf scale (about 3 in 10 million words) in the frequency list wordfreq by Robyn Speer (data CC BY-SA 4.0; origin and processing), sorted by that frequency. Counted are the letters a–z. Licence of these lists: GNU GPL version 3 or later (GPL-3.0, SCOWL copyright notice).

For word games such as Scrabble or crosswords this is a collection of common words, not an official game list: whether a word counts in a particular game is decided by its rules. No point values are given here.

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