4-letter words with Y in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter Y is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of Y in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how Y in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| days | 8 | the time during which someone's life continues | the monarch's last days |
| says | 7 | - | - |
| eyes | 7 | opinion or judgment | in the eyes of the law |
| type | 9 | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | the capable type |
| ways | 10 | structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | - |
| kyle | 11 | - | - |
| maya | 9 | a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayas | - |
| myth | 12 | a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people | - |
| eyed | 8 | having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination | a peacock's eyed feathers |
| sync | 9 | make synchronous and adjust in time or manner | Let's synchronize our efforts |
| dyke | 12 | (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | - |
| tyre | 7 | hoop that covers a wheel | - |
| mayo | 9 | egg yolks and oil and vinegar | - |
| lyra | 7 | a small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco; contains the star Vega | - |
| mays | 9 | United States baseball player (born in 1931) | - |
| dyed | 9 | (used of color) artificially produced; not natural | - |
| hymn | 12 | a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) | - |
| hype | 12 | blatant or sensational promotion | - |
| pyre | 9 | wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite | - |
| soya | 7 | erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | - |
| eyre | 7 | a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent | - |
| cyst | 9 | a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) | - |
| raya | 7 | - | - |
| hays | 10 | United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954) | - |
| syne | 7 | - | - |
| lynx | 14 | short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur | - |
| lyre | 7 | a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment | - |
| wynn | 10 | - | - |
| gyro | 8 | rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction | - |
| tyke | 11 | a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | - |
| oyez | 16 | - | - |
| dyer | 8 | someone whose job is to dye cloth | - |
| pyro | 9 | - | - |
| kayo | 11 | a blow that renders the opponent unconscious | - |
| typo | 9 | a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | - |
| amyl | 9 | a hydrocarbon radical that occurs in many organic compounds | - |
| onyx | 14 | a chalcedony with alternating black and white bands; used in making cameos | - |
| hypo | 12 | a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections | - |
| tyne | 7 | a river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea | - |
| tyro | 7 | someone new to a field or activity | - |
| boyo | 9 | - | - |
| byte | 9 | a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information | - |
| myna | 9 | tropical Asian starlings | - |
| cyan | 9 | of a bluish shade of green | - |
| hoya | 10 | any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers | - |
| gyre | 8 | a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | - |
| eyen | 7 | - | - |
| byre | 9 | a barn for cows | - |
| stye | 7 | an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid | - |
| oryx | 14 | large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns | - |
| nyah | 10 | - | - |
| ryus | 7 | - | - |
| tiyn | 7 | - | - |
| gypo | 10 | - | - |
| gyno | 8 | - | - |
| gyan | 8 | - | - |
| diya | 8 | - | - |
| hyps | 12 | - | - |
| hyte | 10 | - | - |
| hyle | 10 | - | - |
| hyla | 10 | the type genus of the Hylidae; tree toads | - |
| hwyl | 13 | - | - |
| hyed | 11 | - | - |
| hyen | 10 | - | - |
| hyes | 10 | - | - |
| hyke | 14 | - | - |
| hoys | 10 | - | - |
| idyl | 8 | a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | - |
| hiya | 10 | - | - |
| heys | 10 | - | - |
| keys | 11 | - | - |
| kyte | 11 | - | - |
| kyus | 11 | - | - |
| kype | 13 | - | - |
| kyne | 11 | - | - |
| kyak | 15 | - | - |
| kyar | 11 | - | - |
| kyat | 11 | the basic unit of money in Myanmar | - |
| kybo | 13 | - | - |
| kyes | 11 | - | - |
| kynd | 12 | - | - |
| joys | 14 | - | - |
| jays | 14 | - | - |
| kays | 11 | - | - |
| jynx | 21 | wrynecks | - |
| feys | 10 | - | - |
| fays | 10 | - | - |
| emyd | 10 | - | - |
| emys | 9 | - | - |
| eyra | 7 | long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | - |
| eyas | 7 | an unfledged or nestling hawk | - |
| eyer | 7 | - | - |
| eyne | 7 | - | - |
| eyot | 7 | - | - |
| guys | 8 | - | - |
| gyal | 8 | - | - |
| gyve | 11 | - | - |
| gyte | 8 | - | - |
| gybe | 10 | shift from one side of the ship to the other | - |
| gymp | 12 | - | - |
| gyms | 10 | - | - |
| gyps | 10 | a genus of Accipitridae | - |
| gyri | 8 | - | - |
| goys | 8 | - | - |
| fyle | 10 | - | - |
| fyrd | 11 | - | - |
| fyke | 14 | - | - |
| fyce | 12 | - | - |
| foys | 10 | - | - |
| gays | 8 | - | - |
| lyse | 7 | - | - |
| lyte | 7 | - | - |
| lyne | 7 | - | - |
| lyam | 9 | - | - |
| lych | 12 | - | - |
| lyes | 7 | - | - |
| lyme | 9 | - | - |
| lyms | 9 | - | - |
| loys | 7 | - | - |
| leys | 7 | - | - |
| lays | 7 | - | - |
| myal | 9 | - | - |
| mycs | 11 | - | - |
| myxo | 16 | - | - |
| moya | 9 | - | - |
| moyl | 9 | - | - |
| moys | 9 | - | - |
| nays | 7 | - | - |
| cyte | 9 | - | - |
| cyme | 11 | more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first | - |
| cyma | 11 | (architecture) a molding for a cornice; in profile it is shaped like an S (partly concave and partly convex) | - |
| coys | 9 | - | - |
| buys | 9 | - | - |
| byde | 10 | - | - |
| byes | 9 | - | - |
| byke | 13 | - | - |
| byrl | 9 | - | - |
| cays | 9 | - | - |
| doys | 8 | - | - |
| dyad | 9 | two items of the same kind | - |
| dyes | 8 | - | - |
| dyne | 8 | a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram | - |
| drys | 8 | - | - |
| deys | 8 | - | - |
| aryl | 7 | - | - |
| acyl | 9 | any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group | an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group |
| abys | 9 | - | - |
| abye | 9 | make amends for | - |
| boys | 9 | - | - |
| boyf | 12 | - | - |
| boyg | 10 | - | - |
| baye | 9 | - | - |
| bays | 9 | - | - |
| bayt | 9 | - | - |
| azym | 18 | - | - |
| ayah | 10 | (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children | - |
| ayes | 7 | - | - |
| ayin | 7 | the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| ayre | 7 | - | - |
| ayus | 7 | - | - |
| beys | 9 | - | - |
| zyme | 18 | - | - |
| zyga | 17 | - | - |
| xyst | 14 | - | - |
| wyte | 10 | - | - |
| wyns | 10 | - | - |
| wynd | 11 | - | - |
| wyle | 10 | - | - |
| wyes | 10 | - | - |
| wych | 15 | - | - |
| toyo | 7 | - | - |
| toys | 7 | - | - |
| tyes | 7 | - | - |
| tygs | 8 | - | - |
| tyin | 7 | - | - |
| tymp | 11 | - | - |
| tynd | 8 | - | - |
| tyer | 7 | - | - |
| tyee | 7 | - | - |
| tyde | 8 | - | - |
| tyed | 8 | - | - |
| typp | 11 | - | - |
| tyte | 7 | - | - |
| ueys | 7 | - | - |
| trye | 7 | - | - |
| tryp | 9 | - | - |
| tays | 7 | - | - |
| weys | 10 | - | - |
| whys | 13 | - | - |
| scye | 9 | - | - |
| seys | 7 | - | - |
| ryal | 7 | - | - |
| ryas | 7 | - | - |
| ryes | 7 | - | - |
| ryfe | 10 | - | - |
| ryke | 11 | - | - |
| rynd | 8 | - | - |
| ryot | 7 | - | - |
| rype | 9 | - | - |
| soys | 7 | - | - |
| syed | 8 | - | - |
| syph | 12 | a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | - |
| syen | 7 | - | - |
| syes | 7 | - | - |
| syke | 11 | - | - |
| syli | 7 | - | - |
| synd | 8 | - | - |
| sype | 9 | - | - |
| syce | 9 | - | - |
| sybo | 9 | - | - |
| skyf | 14 | - | - |
| skyr | 11 | - | - |
| snye | 7 | - | - |
| oyes | 7 | - | - |
| oyer | 7 | - | - |
| pays | 9 | - | - |
| nyas | 7 | - | - |
| nyed | 8 | - | - |
| nyes | 7 | - | - |
| odyl | 8 | - | - |
| noys | 7 | - | - |
| pyas | 9 | - | - |
| pyat | 9 | - | - |
| pyes | 9 | - | - |
| pyet | 9 | - | - |
| pyic | 11 | - | - |
| pyin | 9 | - | - |
| pyne | 9 | - | - |
| pyot | 9 | - | - |
| puys | 9 | - | - |
| rays | 7 | - | - |
| prys | 9 | - | - |
