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characternounadverbparticletop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • //ˈwaɪ//
  • //j//
  • //aɪ//
  • //i//
  • //ɪ//

The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script.

character

  1. 1

    The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of yearAbbreviation of year.

    Consider the following questions selected from the tests and estimate the proportion of Y8 pupils you would expect to answer correctly.

  2. 2

    Variant of youthAbbreviation of youth, usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.

    Y7

Etymology

Abbreviations.

adverb

  1. 1

    Variant of whyslangAbbreviation of why.

particle

  1. 1

    Variant of yesAbbreviation of yes.

Forms

plural
ys, y's
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).