# Words with Y **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 18, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784 "2025-06-18T01:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/1 "2025-06-18T01:14:24Z")
I was reading an old trivia book and it asked what 2 English words end in y but have no a, e, i, o, or u in them. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/2 "2025-06-18T01:15:35Z")
by, cry, dry, sty, fly… ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/3 "2025-06-18T01:17:55Z")
shy, shyly, dryly, mythy ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/4 "2025-06-18T01:19:18Z")
try, my, gypsy, sky ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/5 "2025-06-18T01:19:18Z")
syzygy… ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/6 "2025-06-18T01:19:35Z")
According to a quick regex, there are 104 results in the words.txt database that fit this criteria. Some of them aren’t probably considered words in standard English but you can find all the relevant English words in this list: > **all 104 words** > > by > bkcy > Bly > btry > BVY > CCNY > chry > cy > Cymry > Cyndy > Cynthy > Cly > Crcy > CRY > Dy > dlvy > Dry > dryly > fcy > fy > fly > flyby > Fry > frwy > Gy > gyny > Gypsy > gypsyfy > gypsyry > gry > hgwy > Hy > hny > hvy > hwy > YY > Jy > Khlysty > KY > Kymry > kyschty > ly > Lyly > lymphy > Lyndy > MY > myrrhy > Mllly > MVY > NY > nymphly > PY > Pygmy > pkwy > ply > Pry > pty > Qy > QSY > QTY > rhymy > ry > rly > RTTY > Rwy > scry > shy > shyly > sy > sylphy > symphysy > syzygy > Sky > Sly > slyly > sny > spy > spry > spryly > sty > stymy > swy > TDY > thy > thymy > ty > typy > Tyty > try > TTY > VFY > Vyky > vyrnwy > VNY > why > WY > Wyly > Wynny > wysty > wkly > wry > wryly > Xnty > Xty ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/7 "2025-06-18T01:40:20Z")
They only listed gypsy and pygmy. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/8 "2025-06-18T01:48:33Z")
rhythm myth [zyzzyx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyzzyx) ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/9 "2025-06-18T03:05:18Z")
There was a whole puzzle in the game The 7th Guest where you had to spell out an entire 8 word sentence by rearranging letters on cans where the only vowel used was Y. The solution was: SHY GYPSY SLYLY SPRYLY TRYST BY MY CRYPT ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/10 "2025-06-18T03:15:49Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > rhythm > myth > [zyzzyx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyzzyx) None of those end in Y ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/11 "2025-06-18T04:06:42Z")
Thy (Oops) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/12 "2025-06-18T04:28:41Z")
Are you sure you got the wording right? I It sounds like it’s looking for two two-syllable words, but even that doesn’t work with the answer as you have dryly and shyly at least. Maybe two two-syllable nouns? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/13 "2025-06-18T12:35:20Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > None of those end in Y That only proves I need more coffee before reading the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/14 "2025-06-29T23:24:57Z")
Why?? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/15 "2025-06-30T01:34:00Z")
Dope aficionados know that [“gry” is in there somewhere.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-gry-word-revisited/1018455/16) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-y/1019784/16 "2025-06-30T01:38:29Z")
It was an outdated book, for sure.