Description : When does Y behave like a vowel?
Last Answer : Y is a consonant for its general pronunciation and in thephonetic alphabets. Y is a consonant when it begins a word likeyellow, yell, year, yearn, yes, yarn, yard, etc. or if it begins asyllable ... but the following letter is a consonant like yttrium,ytterbium, etc. then the Y behaves like a vowel.