Words Ending in YO

There are 26 words ending in YO on Word.ws, from 2 to 6 letters. The most common length is 4 letters (14 words). The words used most often are yo, mayo, embryo, arroyo and ryo.

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

2-letter words ending in YO

yo5interj. A greeting similar to hi.

3-letter words ending in YO

ayo6interj. A greeting.
nyo6part. Pronunciation or cutesy spelling of no.
ryo6n. An anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and...

4-letter words ending in YO

aiyo7interj. Expressing distress, regret, or fear.
boyo9n. A boy or lad.
cayo9n. A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key.
cryo9n. Cryoprecipitate.
gayo8n. South Korean popular music (K-pop).
heyo10interj. Hey; hallo; a casual greeting.
hiyo10interj. Drawing attention to a preceding joke or pun.
kayo11n. A knockout.
mayo9n. Exaggeration.
poyo9n. Palm wine.
riyo7n. A Japanese ounce, especially of silver; a tael.
tayo7n. A garment like an apron, worn by indigenous South Americans.
toyo7n. Soy sauce.
yayo10n. Cocaine.

5-letter words ending in YO

aegyo9n. Cuteness, adorableness, charm.
kikyo16n. A Japanese bellflower (Platycodon grandiflorus).
nyayo11n. A person's precedent or example.
ukiyo12n. Hedonistic urban culture of the Edo period.

6-letter words ending in YO

aguayo10n. A rectangular piece of patterned cloth, used in traditional South...
arroyo9n. A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills...
daimyo12n. A lord during the Japanese feudal period.
embryo13n. In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg...

34 rare words ending in YO

Questions about these words

How many words ending in YO are there?: Word.ws lists 26 words ending in YO, plus 34 rare ones.
What are common words ending in YO?: yo, mayo, embryo, arroyo, ryo, cryo, kayo and ayo.
Which of the words ending in YO has the highest letter score?: kikyo scores 16 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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