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5-Letter Words Starting with YE

There are 12 five-letter words that start with YE on Word.ws, from yeara to yesss. The most common are years, yeast, yearn, yesss and yerba.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 12 five-letter words that start with YE

  • yeara8n. Toxicodendron diversilobum, western poison oak.
  • yearn8v. To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for...
  • years8n. A very long time.
  • yeast8n. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and...
  • yeees8interj. Elongated form of yes.
  • yeesh11interj. Expressing exasperation or impatience.
  • yehey14interj. Used to express joy or elation.
  • yello8interj. An informal greeting, especially when answering the phone.
  • yenny11n. One yen (unit of Japanese currency); a coin worth one yen.
  • yenta8n. A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female...
  • yerba10n. Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South...
  • yesss8interj. Elongated form of yes.
16 rare five-letter words that start with YE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with YE are there?
Word.ws lists 12 five-letter words that start with YE, plus 16 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with YE?
years, yeast, yearn, yesss, yerba, yeesh, yello and yeees.
Which of the five-letter words that start with YE has the highest letter score?
yehey scores 14 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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