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7-Letter Words Starting with Y

There are 25 seven-letter words that start with Y on Word.ws, from yangban to yusheng. The most common are younger, yelling, yawning, yellows and yardage.

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All 25 seven-letter words that start with Y

  • yangban13n. A member of the ruling class of male Confucian intellectuals in Korea...
  • yapping15n. A sound that yaps, especially the continued barking of a small dog.
  • yardage12n. An amount or length measured in yards.
  • yardarm13n. The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal...
  • yardman13n. A worker in a railyard.
  • yashiro13n. A Shinto temple.
  • yawning14n. The action of the verb yawn.
  • yearend11n. The end of a year, especially a financial year.
  • yeasted11adj. Treated with yeast; fermented.
  • yelling11n. The act of producing a yell.
  • yellows13n. A kind of jaundice found in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing...
  • yellowy16adj. Somewhat yellow; yellowish.
  • yelping13n. The act of producing a yelp.
  • yeppers14interj. Yes.
  • yeshiva16n. An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
  • yipping15n. A sound that yips.
  • yodeler11n. One who sings so that their voice fluctuates rapidly between their...
  • yohimbe17n. An African tree Pausinystalia johimbe.
  • younger11adj. Synonym of junior.
  • youngin11n. A young one: a youth, a child, a kid, young person.
  • younker14n. Junker.
  • yowling14n. A sound that yowls.
  • yttrium12n. A silvery metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 39, mainly...
  • yummies14n. Delicious foods.
  • yusheng14n. A Chaozhou-style raw fish salad.
116 rare seven-letter words that start with Y

Questions about these words

How many seven-letter words that start with Y are there?
Word.ws lists 25 seven-letter words that start with Y, plus 116 rare ones.
What are common seven-letter words that start with Y?
younger, yelling, yawning, yellows, yardage, yeshiva, yapping and yelping.
Which of the seven-letter words that start with Y has the highest letter score?
yohimbe scores 17 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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