5 letter words starting with Y

5 letter words that start with a Y and end with one too 5 words

Five words, and each of them is the letter doing both of its jobs inside a single word: a consonant in the first square and a vowel in the last. YUCKY and YUMMY are the two anybody would say out loud. YECHY means disgusting, YEUKY means itchy and YOLKY means what it looks like. If a grid has fixed both ends of a five letter word as a Y, there are five possible answers and these are all of them.

• yechy
• yeuky
• yolky
• yucky
• yummy

5 letter words starting with Y and ending in N 8 words

Eight words. YEARN is the only one in everyday use and it is a good opening guess for a puzzle that has confirmed the first letter, because the other four squares are all frequent letters. YAMEN was a Chinese government office, YAPON and YUPON are two spellings of the same holly, YOGIN is a practitioner of yoga, YULAN is a magnolia, YAMUN is another spelling of YAMEN, and YOURN is a dialect possessive.

• yamen
• yamun
• yapon
• yearn
• yogin
• yourn
• yulan
• yupon

5 letter words starting with Y that take an S at the end 48 words

Forty eight words, more than half the page, and that concentration is the single most useful thing to know about this letter: a five letter Y word is likelier to end in an S than in every other ending put together. YEARS, YARDS, YARNS, YOKES and YOURS are the ordinary ones. YAUDS, YEUKS, YIRDS, YLEMS and YIRRS are the ones that get challenged, and all five survive it.

• yacks
• yaffs
• yagis
• yangs
• yanks
• yards
• yarns
• yauds
• yaups
• yawls
• yawns
• yawps
• yeans
• years
• yechs
• yeggs
• yelks
• yells
• yelps
• yerks
• yeses
• yetis
• yetts
• yeuks
• yikes
• yills
• yipes
• yirds
• yirrs
• ylems
• yocks
• yodhs
• yogas
• yoghs
• yogis
• yokes
• yolks
• yonis
• yores
• yours
• yowes
• yowls
• yuans
• yucas
• yucks
• yugas
• yules
• yurts

5 letter words starting with Y and repeating nothing 73 words

Seventy three of the 94, so a Y word rarely doubles back on itself. YACHT is the standout, because it puts five separate and reasonably common letters in one word and confirms or kills a great deal in a single turn. YEAST, YIELD, YOUNG and YOUTH do the same job almost as well. YUMMY, YOBBO and YUCCA are the shapes this section deliberately leaves out.

• yacht
• yacks
• yager
• yagis
• yaird
• yamen
• yamun
• yangs
• yanks
• yapok
• yapon
• yards
• yarns
• yauds
• yauld
• yaups
• yawed
• yawls
• yawns
• yawps
• yeans
• yearn
• years
• yeast
• yechs
• yelks
• yelps
• yenta
• yerba
• yerks
• yetis
• yeuks
• yield
• yikes
• yince
• yipes
• yirds
• yirth
• ylems
• yocks
• yodel
• yodhs
• yodle
• yogas
• yoghs
• yogic
• yogin
• yogis
• yoked
• yokel
• yokes
• yolks
• yonic
• yonis
• yores
• young
• yourn
• yours
• youse
• youth
• yowed
• yowes
• yowie
• yowls
• yuans
• yucas
• yucks
• yugas
• yulan
• yules
• yupon
• yurta
• yurts

5 letter words where the Y is not the first letter 1,228 words

Thirteen times the size of the page above it, and the place where this letter spends nearly all of its life: 1,228 five letter words carry a Y that is not the opening character, and in almost every one of them the Y is a vowel rather than a consonant. HAPPY, CRAZY, EMPTY and DIRTY put it on the end, MYTHS, CRYPT, GYPSY and LYMPH put it in the middle with no other vowel anywhere in sight. That second group is the one a solver forgets exists.

Every five letter word there is, arranged by opening letter