Tuesday 6 May 2008

SOWPODS Y Words not Followed by a Vowel

The Ypsilon, a car produced by Lancia, a letter of the Greek alphabet (also known as upsilon) and a word in SOWPODS

Some of the most interesting words in SOWPODS are the words that have a Y without directly being followed by a vowel. The vast majority of these words (ypsilon being one of the exceptions) are relics of an archaic way of forming the past participles of verbs, by means of adding an initial Y. As very few people know these words, they are a great way to pick up easy points in some games. Here is a full list:

YBET
YBLENT
YBORE
YBOUND
YBOUNDEN
YBRENT
YCLAD
YCLED
YCLEEPE
YCLEEPED
YCLEEPES
YCLEEPING
YCLEPED
YCLEPT
YCOND
YDRAD
YDRED
YFERE
YGLAUNST
YGO
YGOE
YLEM
YLEMS
YLIKE
YLKE
YLKES
YMOLT
YMOLTEN
YMPE
YMPES
YMPING
YMPT
YNAMBU
YNAMBUS
YPERITE
YPERITES
YPIGHT
YPLAST
YPLIGHT
YPSILIFORM
YPSILOID
YPSILON
YPSILONS
YRAPT
YRAVISHED
YRENT
YRIVD
YRNEH
YRNEHS
YSAME
YSHEND
YSHENDING
YSHENDS
YSHENT
YSLAKED
YTHUNDERED
YTOST

2 comments:

Cassandra said...

I love these words!

Rez said...

yttria(s) yttric yttrium ytterbia(s) ytterbic ytterbium yttrium(s)

I'm a TWL person.. surely these are in SOWPODS too!