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There are 11 three-letter words beginning with YA

YAD	• yad n. (Judaism) A pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading. • yad n. The letter ⴷ in the Tifinagh alphabet. • y'ad cont. (Obsolete) Contraction of ye had.
YAE	• yae n. The Korean vowel ㅒ. • yae n. The Cyrillic letter Ԙ (capital), ԙ (lower case), a ligature of Я and Е. • YAE adj. (Scots) one, also AE.
YAG	• YAG n. Initialism of yttrium aluminium garnet: a synthetic material used in lasers and formerly as an artificial gemstone. • YAG n. a type of synthetic garnet containing yttrium and aluminium, used in lasers and as a gem.
YAH	• yah adv. (UK, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Yes. • yah interj. An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster. • yah n. (Britain, informal) An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.
YAK	• yak n. An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Burma, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair… • yak v. (Slang, intransitive) To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle. • yak v. (Slang, intransitive) To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
YAM	• yam n. Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated. • yam n. The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food. • yam n. (US) A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
YAP	• yap n. (Countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar. • yap n. (Uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter. • yap n. (Countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.
YAR	• yar v. (Intransitive) To snarl; to gnar. • yar v. (Intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To growl, especially like a dog; quarrel; to be captious or troublesome. • yar adj. (UK dialectal) Sour; brackish.
YAS	• yas interj. (Often AAVE) Nonstandard spelling of yes. • yas pron. Nonstandard spelling of yous. • Yas prop.n. Plural of Ya.
YAW	• yaw n. The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal… • yaw n. The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory… • yaw n. (Nautical) A vessel’s motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a…
YAY	• yay interj. (Colloquial) An expression of happiness. • yay interj. Misspelling of yea. • yay adv. Alternative spelling of yea.

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.
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English Wiktionary: 29 words
Scrabble in French: 2 words
Scrabble in Spanish: 2 words
Scrabble in Italian: 1 word
Scrabble in German: 1 word
Scrabble in Romanian: no word

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