5 Letter Words Starting with Y

Every 5-letter English word in the JumbleFix dictionary that starts with Y. Each word links to its definition. Face-value Scrabble and Words With Friends scores are shown so you can pick a high-scoring play without leaving the page.

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  1. yacca Scrabble 12 · WWF 13
    n.. A West Indian name for two large timber trees (Podocarpus coriaceus, and P. Purdicanus) of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish wit...
  2. yacht Scrabble 13 · WWF 12
    n.. A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place t...
  3. yager Scrabble 9 · WWF 9
    n.. In the German army, one belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army.
  4. yahoo Scrabble 11 · WWF 9
    n.. a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
  5. yahve Scrabble 14 · WWF 13
    n.. a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
  6. yahwe Scrabble 14 · WWF 12
    n.. a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
  7. yakin Scrabble 12 · WWF 12
    n.. A large Asiatic antelope (Budorcas taxicolor) native of the higher parts of the Himalayas and other lofty mountains. Its head and neck resemble those of the...
  8. yakut Scrabble 12 · WWF 12
    n.. the Turkic language spoken by the Yakut
  9. yalta Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    n.. a resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; site of the Allied conference between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in February 1945
  10. yanan Scrabble 8 · WWF 9
    n.. a language group of the Hokan family
  11. yapon Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. Same as Yaupon.
  12. yarke Scrabble 12 · WWF 11
    n.. Same as Saki.
  13. yawed Scrabble 12 · WWF 11
    imp. & p. p.. of Yaw
  14. yazoo Scrabble 17 · WWF 16
    n.. a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg
  15. yeara Scrabble 8 · WWF 7
    n.. The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.
  16. yearn Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    v. t.. To pain; to grieve; to vex.
  17. years Scrabble 8 · WWF 7
    n.. the time during which someone's life continues; "the monarch's last days"; "in his final years"
  18. yeast Scrabble 8 · WWF 7
    n.. The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under cer...
  19. yeats Scrabble 8 · WWF 7
    n.. Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)
  20. yeddo Scrabble 10 · WWF 9
    n.. the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan
  21. yemen Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990
  22. yenta Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    n.. (Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal
  23. yerba Scrabble 10 · WWF 10
    n.. An herb; a plant.
  24. yesty Scrabble 11 · WWF 9
    a.. See Yeasty.
  25. yeven Scrabble 11 · WWF 12
    p. p.. Given.
  26. yezdi Scrabble 18 · WWF 17
    n.. Same as Izedi.
  27. yfere Scrabble 11 · WWF 10
    adv.. Together. See Ifere.
  28. yibit Scrabble 10 · WWF 10
    n.. a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibits or 2^80 bits
  29. yield Scrabble 9 · WWF 9
    v. t.. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven p...
  30. yobbo Scrabble 12 · WWF 13
    n.. a cruel and brutal fellow
  31. yodel Scrabble 9 · WWF 9
    v. t. & i.. Alt. of Yodle
  32. yodle Scrabble 9 · WWF 9
    v. t. & i.. To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the cont...
  33. yogic Scrabble 11 · WWF 12
    a.. of or relating to yoga; "yogic exercises"
  34. yojan Scrabble 15 · WWF 17
    n.. A measure of distance, varying from four to ten miles, but usually about five.
  35. yoked Scrabble 13 · WWF 12
    imp. & p. p.. of Yoke
  36. yokel Scrabble 12 · WWF 12
    n.. A country bumpkin.
  37. young Scrabble 9 · WWF 11
    superl.. Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a...
  38. yours Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    pron.. See the Note under Your.
  39. youth Scrabble 11 · WWF 10
    pl.. of Youth
  40. youze Scrabble 17 · WWF 17
    n.. The cheetah.
  41. ypres Scrabble 10 · WWF 10
    n.. battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
  42. yquem Scrabble 19 · WWF 20
    n.. a sweet white French wine
  43. yucca Scrabble 12 · WWF 14
    n.. See Flicker, n., 2.
  44. yucky Scrabble 17 · WWF 17
    a.. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to...
  45. yukon Scrabble 12 · WWF 13
    n.. a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
  46. yulan Scrabble 8 · WWF 10
    n.. A species of Magnolia (M. conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under Magnolia.
  47. yuman Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    n.. a group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico
  48. yummy Scrabble 15 · WWF 16
    a.. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
  49. yupon Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    n.. Same as Yaupon.