The letter "Y" is a troubling letter to draw in Scrabble. Its face value is fairly high but it's often hard to place in a bingo. The best strategy may be to play it as quickly as possibly, hopefully on a multi-letter bonus.
To help you get rid of your "Y"'s quickly, we present the 50 most played words in Scrabble that contain the letter "Y". The words are presented in playrank order, meaning YE is the most often played word of the bunch, YA is the second most often played word, and so on down the list. This information only applies to games played under the OWL2 official tournament word list.
There are 24800 legal y-words in the OWL2 list, but the 50 words presented below account for over 38% of all y-word plays! Putting that another way, if a y-word is used in a game then there is a 38% chance that it is in the list below.
All of these words are commonly played and should be memorized.
1. ye
2. ya
3. ay
4. oy
5. yo
6. by
7. my
8. aye
9. eye
10. yen
11. aby
12. joy
13. yea
14. yet
15. toy
16. bye
17. yar
18. rya
19. yeh
20. yon
21. fay
22. goy
23. you
24. yag
25. yod
26. yew
27. fey
28. nay
29. yow
30. yid
31. jay
32. oxy
33. dey
34. yaw
35. yom
36. rye
37. yah
38. yeti
39. hey
40. lay
41. tye
42. joey
43. bey
44. hay
45. yin
46. yes
47. ivy
48. hoy
49. yep
50. bay
The list above is original research from ScrabbleGuru.com. Come visit us for more!