Words ending in Y

There are 12,718 words ending in Y in our word list. 1,073 of them are common everyday words, such as BY, MY, THEY and ANY. They range from 2 to 15 letters, and 8-letter words are the biggest group, with 1,706.

Words: 12,718
Common words: 1,073
Longest: INTERNATIONALLY; 15 letters
Top score: QUIZZICALITY; 44 points

Y works as both a consonant (YES) and a vowel (GYM, SKY). At the end of a word it often forms adjectives and adverbs, as in HAPPY and QUICKLY.

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2-letter words (4)

3-letter words (53)

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4-letter words (191)

they
only
very
away
city
many
play
army
baby
body
easy
okay
stay
busy
copy
duty
holy
lady
navy
tiny
tony
ally
clay
deny
gray
grey
jury
lazy
pray
rely
ugly
vary
bury
cory
cozy
envy
fury
joey
levy
lily
obey
pity
poly
pony
prey

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5-letter words (887)

every
money
today
crazy
daily
early
enjoy
funny
happy
party
ready
sorry
story
study
angry
apply
carry
dirty
empty
enemy
entry
fully
harry
heavy
henry
lucky
reply
truly
worry
array
badly
belly
billy
bobby
buddy
candy
daddy
dairy
delay
derby
diary
essay
fairy
fancy
ferry

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6-letter words (1,165)

family
really
county
energy
likely
nearly
policy
pretty
simply
agency
anyway
beauty
comedy
deputy
easily
fairly
guilty
hardly
highly
injury
jersey
lovely
mainly
memory
mostly
nearby
nobody
plenty
safety
slowly
supply
surely
survey
theory
turkey
twenty
valley
weekly
widely
bailey
barely
bloody
cherry
colony
comply

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7-letter words (1,362)

already
company
century
country
exactly
finally
history
quality
quickly
society
usually
ability
academy
anybody
battery
clearly
closely
destroy
display
economy
factory
fantasy
healthy
heavily
holiday
journey
largely
library
monthly
primary
reality
surgery
therapy
totally
variety
victory
anxiety
apology
biology
briefly
charity
custody
density
destiny
dignity

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8-letter words (1,706)

actually
industry
military
probably
property
recently
security
activity
assembly
attorney
birthday
capacity
category
delivery
directly
entirely
facility
friendly
honestly
identify
identity
majority
ministry
normally
possibly
properly
recovery
slightly
somebody
strategy
suddenly
accuracy
actively
advisory
annually
boundary
cemetery
ceremony
commonly
contrary
courtesy
currency
equality
everyday
formally

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9-letter words (1,302)

certainly
community
currently
authority
basically
democracy
emergency
everybody
extremely
generally
hopefully
literally
necessary
obviously
perfectly
regularly
secondary
secretary
seriously
territory
typically
yesterday
allegedly
carefully
celebrity
chemistry
correctly
discovery
diversity
frequency
genuinely
gradually
initially
instantly
integrity
intensity
inventory
legendary
liability
machinery
mandatory
naturally
partially
precisely
pregnancy

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10-letter words (1,421)

completely
especially
technology
university
absolutely
apparently
constantly
definitely
eventually
frequently
officially
originally
personally
previously
relatively
ultimately
bankruptcy
capability
commentary
complexity
conspiracy
creativity
dictionary
difficulty
disability
efficiency
elementary
incredibly
laboratory
philosophy
physically
popularity
presidency
presumably
psychology
reasonably
regulatory
repeatedly
reportedly
separately
thoroughly
accurately
adequately
admittedly
blackberry

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11-letter words (1,401)

anniversary
immediately
opportunity
personality
possibility
accordingly
controversy
differently
documentary
effectively
electricity
emotionally
essentially
exclusively
flexibility
importantly
necessarily
permanently
photography
politically
potentially
practically
preliminary
probability
technically
temporarily
uncertainty
unnecessary
archaeology
beautifully
bureaucracy
comfortably
consciously
consistency
continually
credibility
desperately
drastically
efficiently
eligibility
extensively
financially
fortunately
genetically
hospitality

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12-letter words (1,242)

particularly
specifically
accidentally
additionally
availability
considerably
consistently
contemporary
deliberately
historically
increasingly
occasionally
productivity
respectively
subsequently
successfully
surprisingly
aggressively
anthropology
authenticity
bibliography
chemotherapy
collectively
commercially
connectivity
consequently
constituency
continuously
conveniently
disciplinary
dramatically
economically
evolutionary
incidentally
indefinitely
individually
inflammatory
introductory
municipality
periodically
ridiculously
satisfactory
spirituality
sufficiently
transparency

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13-letter words (939)

approximately
automatically
significantly
unfortunately
extraordinary
independently
parliamentary
revolutionary
traditionally
accessibility
alternatively
appropriately
autobiography
comparatively
compatibility
complementary
exceptionally
functionality
fundamentally
homosexuality
intentionally
interestingly
predominantly
profitability
statistically
substantially
theoretically
vulnerability
aesthetically
affordability
biotechnology
categorically
competitively
complimentary
contradictory
discretionary
exponentially
fantastically
ideologically
impossibility
inadvertently
inconsistency
individuality
instinctively
intelligently

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14-letter words (629)

responsibility
simultaneously
accountability
overwhelmingly
professionally
sustainability
systematically
affectionately
alphabetically
cinematography
coincidentally
conventionally
democratically
discriminatory
electronically
experimentally
geographically
intellectually
intermittently
mathematically
nanotechnology
scientifically
susceptibility
understandably
unquestionably
unsatisfactory
unsuccessfully
unsurprisingly
wholeheartedly
anesthesiology
cardiomyopathy
chromatography
confidentially
congratulatory
conservatively
constructively
differentially
diplomatically
embarrassingly
encephalopathy
historiography
hypothetically
insufficiently
interplanetary
linguistically

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15-letter words (416)

internationally
confidentiality
environmentally
extraordinarily
inappropriately
psychologically
technologically
unconditionally
unintentionally
architecturally
bioavailability
chronologically
collaboratively
comprehensively
computationally
controversially
correspondingly
crystallography
developmentally
heterosexuality
incompatibility
instantaneously
interchangeably
maneuverability
morphologically
pathophysiology
philosophically
physiologically
plenipotentiary
proportionality
proportionately
retrospectively
surreptitiously
sympathetically
unceremoniously
aerodynamically
authoritatively
cardiopulmonary
compassionately
complementarity
compressibility
condescendingly
congressionally
conscientiously
demographically

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Darker borders mark common everyday words. Rarer words follow in each group.

Questions

How many words ending in Y are there?

Our word list has 12,718 words ending in Y. 1,073 of them are common everyday words.

What is the longest word ending in Y?

The longest have 15 letters, for example INTERNATIONALLY, CONFIDENTIALITY and ENVIRONMENTALLY.

Which word ending in Y scores the most points?

Using standard letter tile values, QUIZZICALITY scores 44 points, the most of any word ending in Y in our list.