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5 letter words containing Y

Every five-letter word in the list that contains Y — 1,321 of them, printed below. The contains box is already set to Y; add a pattern or the letters you have ruled out to cut it down.

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1,321 words, showing the first 1,200

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Five-letter words that contain Y, counted

There are 1,321 of them here, which makes Y the thirteenth most common letter inside a five-letter word in this list. That is a different ranking from Y as an opener: a letter can be rare at the front and common in the middle.

94 of them start with Y; the other 1,227 have it later. The square it occupies most often is the fifth (906 of them). 25 use Y more than once.

On standard Scrabble tiles the most expensive are JAZZY (33), FIZZY (29), FUZZY (29). A high score here still means rare letters, not a good first guess — and a yellow Y in a puzzle is a placement problem, not a "start with Y" problem.

What a yellow Y actually tells you

Y anywhere is often the only vowel in the word, sitting last (HAPPY, DRYLY) or second (LYRIC). A yellow Y after you have a real vowel already is a different, shorter list than a yellow Y in a word that still has no A, E, I, O or U.

838 of them use five different letters (ABYES, ABYSM, ACIDY and ACYLS). 346 of them contain a doubled letter (ABBEY, ABYSS, ALLAY and ALLEY). The no-repeat words are the ones that test five letters for the price of one.

15 of them carry three or more vowels (ALIYA, BAYOU, COOEY and EYRIE). Those are the ones to reach for when the letters you have left are mostly vowels. 34 of them manage without A, E, I, O or U (BYRLS, CRYPT, CYSTS and DRYLY).

Using a contains-Y list in a puzzle

A yellow tile is not a green tile. These 1,321 candidates have Y somewhere; they do not have it locked. Put the squares you have already ruled out into the pattern as dots you then exclude by hand, or type the other confirmed letters into their positions and leave Y free.

The opening-Y list is a different page — only 94 five-letter words start with Y. The second-letter list is different again: 164 have Y locked in square two. This URL is the one that matches "contains Y" / "with a Y in them".

Alphabetically the list here runs from ABBEY to ZYMES. Every word on it comes from the same public-domain list the search box queries, so nothing printed here is a word the tool will then refuse to find.

Highest scoring five-letter words that contain Y

Standard Scrabble tile values for words that have Y somewhere, not only those that open with it. Rare letters still dominate the top of the table.

WordPoints
JAZZY33
FIZZY29
FUZZY29
MUZZY28
DIZZY27
LEZZY26
TIZZY26
JACKY21
JIFFY21
QUAKY21

Which square Y occupies

How often Y sits in each of the five positions, counted across all 1,321 words. A letter that is common in the middle and rare at the end is a placement clue, not just a count.

PositionWordsExamples
194YACHT, YACKS, YAFFS
2164AYAHS, AYINS, BYLAW
3119ABYES, ABYSM, ABYSS
463ALIYA, ALKYD, ALKYL
5906ABBEY, ACIDY, AGLEY

Common questions

How many 5 letter words contain Y?

1,321 in the list used here, which is every five-letter word in the public-domain ENABLE dictionary that includes Y, apart from a short blocklist of slurs. Sites using a different dictionary will quote a different number.

Which 5 letter word containing Y scores highest?

JAZZY, at 33 points on standard Scrabble tiles, ahead of FIZZY at 29. Words With Friends values several letters differently, so the order there is not the same.

Do most 5 letter words containing Y start with it?

No. 94 of the 1,321 open with Y; 1,227 have it in another square. That is why a yellow Y is a different page from "starts with Y".

Every word, grouped by how long it is

The complete list at each length. Three letters is a page you memorise; nine is a page you search.

Five-letter words by opening letter

The complete list for each letter, with how many there are. S is a page you scroll; X is a page you read.

Five-letter words by second letter

The same length, a different known square. A is the large page; J is the short one.

Five-letter words by a letter they contain

A yellow tile, not a green one. E is in most of them; Q and J are the short pages.

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