Commonly used words in written English - letter Y with 29 words, sorted by frequency
The list of words starting with the letter Y that occur frequently in written English is based on an analysis of the Google Books Ngram (a collection compiled by Peter Norvig in 2012, containing close to one trillion words).
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Word Frequency is calculated as the number of occurrences in one million words.
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Word Definition is sourced from the WordNet dictionary. You'll have to look up each word page for its complete definition and Part of Speech (POS) categories.
| Word | Frequency | Definition |
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3,240 | (pronoun) the pronoun of the second person singular or plural, used of the person or persons being spoken to, in the nominative or objective case | |
1,009 | (pronoun) of or relating to you or yourself or yourselves especially as possessor or possessors | |
757 | (noun) the time during which someone's life continues | |
507 | (noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | |
400 | (conjunction) nevertheless; notwithstanding; however; (adverb) up to the present time | |
385 | (noun) the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose | |
323 | (adjective) (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; (noun) any immature animal | |
130 | (noun) an affirmative; (exclamation) used to answer a question and say that something is correct or true | |
106 | (noun) the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet | |
85 | (verb) be the cause or source of; (noun) an amount of a product | |
76 | (pronoun) a reflexive form of you, used as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition | |
76 | (noun) the time of life between childhood and maturity | |
59 | (verb) turn yellow; (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | |
51 | (noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride | |
45 | (adjective) used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father | |
25 | (pronoun) that which belongs to you, used without a following noun as a pronoun equivalent in meaning to the adjective your | |
23 | (adverb) on the day preceding today; (noun) the day immediately before today | |
15 | (noun) English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721) | |
14 | (exclamation) nonstandard spelling of yes, representing a pronunciation | |
11 | (adjective) occurring or payable every year; (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | |
9 | (noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | |
9 | (adjective) inclined to yield to argument or influence or control | |
9 | (adjective) suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh | |
8 | (noun) a former country of southeastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929; controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his death in 1980 | |
7 | (noun) the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology | |
7 | (verb) tell or spin a yarn | |
7 | (noun) a young person of either sex | |
6 | (adjective) in a vehement outcry | |
6 | (verb) become joined or linked together; (noun) fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment | |
5 | (noun) a former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties |