Grove Spelling Dictionary
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Is there a y in kumquat?

graft: letter 2
Writtenkumquat

KUM-kwot

No. There is no y anywhere in it, and no y sound either. The temptation comes from the neighbouring vowel: English has a small set of words where a bare u after a consonant carries a hidden y, as in the second half of accumulate. Kumquat is not one of them, and the fruit name has never had a y in any of its English spellings.

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