wye vs y

wye

verb
  • To reverse the direction of a train using a wye. 

  • To make something into a wye (letter Y) shape. 

noun
  • A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track. 

  • The name of the Latin-script letter Y. 

y

character
  • The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script. 

How often have the words wye and y occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )