y

Other forms of y

plural

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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about y

What does y mean?

y means "a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in y?

y has 1 syllable: y. In IPA it is /ˈwaɪ/.

What is another word for y?

Close synonyms include yttrium, atomic number 39, wye. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is y a common word?

y is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with y?

2 words rhyme with y. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.