alcohol
(I guess the Search Thread function works, but checking very, very common words to make sure they haven’t been used yet gives me doubt.)
Lollapalooza
Alcatraz
(I’ve tried the search thread function and it worked for me, just now it told me that “Adirondack” had been used already and this morning it said that “yesteryear” was used multiple times)
As the starter of the thread, my first thought was that there should be no repetition … but after more than a thousand posts, I don’t think that’s reasonable to require, since people would have to search (and for me, part of the fun of thread games is that I can have a 30-second diversion without having to spend much time on it).
Also, lots of words end in Y. Not very many start with it … I bet that all of the Y words have been used many times.
zealously!
^ Thread winner! You might as well close the thread now.
I found a few Y words that have been used only once, and here’s one that hasn’t been used yet:
Yekaterinburg
gastronomy
yestercentury
yobbery
yellowy
Yog-Sothoth
Hackensack
knobkerrie
epilogue
egalitarianism
metabolism
macadam
masturbation
navigation
Ninjutsu