4 letter words with I and Y

Our dictionary holds 64 4 letter words with i and y, all exactly 4 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is VIZY, worth 19 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with Y than any other letter — 15 of them, about 23% of the list.

5 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (8%), including city, tiny, lily, pity, tidy; the remaining 59 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.