4 Letter Words Ending in Y

Four-letter words ending in ‘y’ are an interesting category of the English language. Examples include easy, army, city, baby, lazy, pity, they, play and many others. These words are versatile in their use in both written and spoken English; they can be used as nouns or verbs depending on the context of the sentence. Additionally, variations of four-letter words ending in ‘y’ can be found as well. For example changing ‘lazy’ to ‘lazier’ or ‘easy’ to ‘ease’ makes new words that maintain the same root word but change in meaning or intensity. Finally these four letter words can also be used to form acronyms such as LED (light emitting diode) or OLED (organic light emitting diode).