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wy

/waɪ/

wy noun: the name of the letter Y.

Noun (1)

wy (plural wies)

  1. The name of the letter Y.
    • The names of the letters, as now commonly spoken and written in English, are A, Bee, Cee, Dee, E, Eff, Gee, Aitch, I, Jay, Kay, Ell, Em, En, O, Pee, Kue, Ar, Ess, Tee, U, Vee, Double-u, Ex, Wy, Zee.1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10

Proper noun capitalized: WY

WY

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, postal) Initialism of Wyoming: a state of the United States.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of West Yorkshire: a county of England.

Noun (2) capitalized: Wy

Wy (plural Wies)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of wy.

Forms of wy

pluralwies
alternative formwye
pluralWies

Plural of wy: wies

Phrases with wy

Questions about wy

What does wy mean?
Wy means the name of the letter Y.
What part of speech is wy?
Wy can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce wy?
Wy is pronounced /waɪ/.
What is the plural of wy?
The plural of wy is wies.

Words near wy in the dictionary

  1. wwwww
  2. WX
  3. WXF
  4. Wxf.
  5. WXGA
  6. wy
  7. Wy Yung
  8. Wy'east
  9. Wy.
  10. wya
  11. Wyaconda

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wy (page history and authors); WY (page history and authors); Wy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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