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3-Letter Words Starting with Y

There are 42 three-letter words that start with Y on Word.ws, from yaa to yus. The most common are you, yet, yes, yep and yea.

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All 42 three-letter words that start with Y

YA

  • yaa6n. The letter ي (y) in the Arabic script.
  • yab8v. To satirize or roast; to abuse verbally.
  • yad7n. A pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading.
  • yae6n. The Korean vowel ㅒ (yae).
  • yah9adv. Yes.
  • yak10n. An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tibet...
  • yam8n. Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western...
  • yan6det. Synonym of yonder.
  • yap8n. The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
  • yar6v. To snarl; to gnar.
  • yat6n. A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic...
  • yaw9n. The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis...
  • yay9interj. An expression of happiness.

YE

  • yea6adv. Yes, indeed.
  • yed7v. To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.
  • yee6pron. You (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye.
  • yem8n. A Vietnamese bodice with a halterneck and a V-shaped bottom worn by...
  • yen6n. The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100...
  • yep8interj. Yes.
  • yer6n. Either of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally...
  • yes6part. Used to show agreement or acceptance.
  • yet6adv. In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or...
  • yew9n. A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat...
  • yez15pron. You (plural).

YI

  • yif9conj. If.
  • yin6n. A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated...
  • yip8n. A sharp, high-pitched bark.

YO

  • yob8n. A boy.
  • yod7n. A palatal approximant, /j/.
  • yoh9interj. Expresses surprise, wonder, admiration, frustration, shock, or distress.
  • yoi6n. A preparatory position in karate, with the arms slightly forward...
  • yon6det. Distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.
  • yop8n. A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in...
  • yot6n. The letter Ϳϳ, an uncommon variant of Jj used in Greek linguistics.
  • you6pron. The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
  • yow9interj. Expression of pain; ouch.

YU

  • yue6n. An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space...
  • yuh9pron. You.
  • yuk10interj. An exuberant laugh.
  • yum8interj. Indicating delight at the flavor of food.
  • yup8n. A yes; an affirmative answer.
  • yus6n. Either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing...
2 rare three-letter words that start with Y

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words that start with Y are there?
Word.ws lists 42 three-letter words that start with Y, plus 2 rare ones.
What are common three-letter words that start with Y?
you, yet, yes, yep, yea, yup, yay and yen.
Which of the three-letter words that start with Y has the highest letter score?
yez scores 15 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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