8-Letter Words Ending in Y
There are 1,711 eight-letter words ending in Y in our dictionary; 825 of them are common words.
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The 600 most common of 1,711 words
- majority20 points
- quantity20 points
- accuracy17 points
- capacity17 points
- commonly17 points
- probably17 points
- promptly17 points
- publicly17 points
- activity16 points
- facility16 points
- somebody16 points
- assembly15 points
- delivery15 points
- friendly15 points
- identify15 points
- possibly15 points
- properly15 points
- property15 points
- slightly15 points
- unlikely15 points
- validity15 points
- category14 points
- directly14 points
- randomly14 points
- secondly14 points
- severely14 points
- tendency14 points
- actually13 points
- contrary13 points
- military13 points
- minority13 points
- normally13 points
- recently13 points
- remotely13 points
- security13 points
- sensibly13 points
- strictly13 points
- suddenly13 points
- suitably13 points
- terribly13 points
- identity12 points
- industry12 points
- ordinary12 points
- strategy12 points
- strongly12 points
- entirely11 points
- sympathy21 points
- symphony21 points
- equality20 points
- pharmacy20 points
- uniquely20 points
- everyday18 points
- forcibly18 points
- sexually18 points
- simplify18 points
- symmetry18 points
- birthday17 points
- brightly17 points
- actively16 points
- classify16 points
- formally16 points
- formerly16 points
- horribly16 points
- humanity16 points
- motorway16 points
- recovery16 points
- smoothly16 points
- velocity16 points
- verbally16 points
- vicinity16 points
- advisory15 points
- ceremony15 points
- currency15 points
- monopoly15 points
- multiply15 points
- scarcely15 points
- slippery15 points
- snobbery15 points
- theology15 points
- arguably14 points
- boundary14 points
- geometry14 points
- globally14 points
- heartily14 points
- honestly14 points
- honorary14 points
- infinity14 points
- lavatory14 points
- pedantry14 points
- severity14 points
- usefully14 points
- visually14 points
- warranty14 points
- atrocity13 points
- courtesy13 points
- ideology13 points
- manually13 points
- mentally13 points
- morality13 points
- mutually13 points
- priority13 points
- reliably13 points
- secretly13 points
- socially13 points
- subtlety13 points
- steadily12 points
- underlay12 points
- urgently12 points
- annually11 points
- attorney11 points
- entirety11 points
- eternity11 points
- literary11 points
- joyfully24 points
- flexibly23 points
- quantify23 points
- jeopardy21 points
- jovially21 points
- joyously21 points
- quandary21 points
- wickedly21 points
- expertly20 points
- humidify20 points
- prophecy20 points
- squarely20 points
- busybody19 points
- chivalry19 points
- crockery19 points
- polygamy19 points
- vivacity19 points
- buoyancy18 points
- butchery18 points
- driveway18 points
- hideaway18 points
- jauntily18 points
- jealousy18 points
- markedly18 points
- monarchy18 points
- prophesy18 points
- provably18 points
- scratchy18 points
- shabbily18 points
- unjustly18 points
- affinity17 points
- almighty17 points
- amicably17 points
- celibacy17 points
- clemency17 points
- cowardly17 points
- fatherly17 points
- feathery17 points
- heavenly17 points
- humidity17 points
- mahogany17 points
- palpably17 points
- rhapsody17 points
- stowaway17 points
- trickery17 points
- unworthy17 points
- upwardly17 points
- waterway17 points
- wilfully17 points
- beautify16 points
- blithely16 points
- castaway16 points
- causeway16 points
- chastity16 points
- civility16 points
- cleverly16 points
- covertly16 points
- craftily16 points
- delicacy16 points
- ferocity16 points
- fiercely16 points
- foreplay16 points
- humanely16 points
- humility16 points
- monogamy16 points
- motherly16 points
- pedagogy16 points
- placidly16 points
- sanctify16 points
- unkindly16 points
- veracity16 points
- weaponry16 points
- abruptly15 points
- acrimony15 points
- calamity15 points
- candidly15 points
- cemetery15 points
- clumsily15 points
- devoutly15 points
- divinity15 points
- doggedly15 points
- epilepsy15 points
- fidelity15 points
- frugally15 points
- heatedly15 points
- heredity15 points
- hungrily15 points
- immunity15 points
- impunity15 points
- impurity15 points
- intimacy15 points
- inwardly15 points
- lethargy15 points
- lobotomy15 points
- lovingly15 points
- miscarry15 points
- mobility15 points
- savagely15 points
- savagery15 points
- scarcity15 points
- solidify15 points
- superbly15 points
- unwieldy15 points
- absurdly14 points
- antibody14 points
- audacity14 points
- boringly14 points
- burglary14 points
- corduroy14 points
- debility14 points
- decently14 points
- demurely14 points
- dismally14 points
- drudgery14 points
- fatality14 points
- finality14 points
- flattery14 points
- fluently14 points
- forestry14 points
- futility14 points
- hilarity14 points
- infantry14 points
- leathery14 points
- modestly14 points
- narrowly14 points
- nativity14 points
- rapidity14 points
- refinery14 points
- slovenly14 points
- stairway14 points
- stealthy14 points
- stratify14 points
- stupidly14 points
- timidity14 points
- topology14 points
- travesty14 points
- unevenly14 points
- unfairly14 points
- unsavory14 points
- villainy14 points
- virility14 points
- vitality14 points
- westerly14 points
- ancestry13 points
- autonomy13 points
- bitterly13 points
- brutally13 points
- casually13 points
- casualty13 points
- coarsely13 points
- coronary13 points
- culinary13 points
- emissary13 points
- enormity13 points
- gingerly13 points
- greedily13 points
- landlady13 points
- leniency13 points
- literacy13 points
- locality13 points
- luminary13 points
- mainstay13 points
- masterly13 points
- matronly13 points
- maturity13 points
- ministry13 points
- monetary13 points
- monotony13 points
- mortally13 points
- mortuary13 points
- nobility13 points
- obituary13 points
- patently13 points
- polarity13 points
- politely13 points
- racially13 points
- rigidity13 points
- rosemary13 points
- sanctity13 points
- scrutiny13 points
- securely13 points
- seminary13 points
- sobriety13 points
- solemnly13 points
- sparsely13 points
- tapestry13 points
- tenacity13 points
- unseemly13 points
- adroitly12 points
- adultery12 points
- allegory12 points
- ardently12 points
- auditory12 points
- daintily12 points
- disarray12 points
- genially12 points
- glossary12 points
- gluttony12 points
- gratuity12 points
- greenery12 points
- guiltily12 points
- legality12 points
- registry12 points
- solidity12 points
- stolidly12 points
- tenderly12 points
- ungainly12 points
- artistry11 points
- astutely11 points
- easterly11 points
- entreaty11 points
- illusory11 points
- insanely11 points
- insanity11 points
- linearly11 points
- ornately11 points
- sanitary11 points
- senility11 points
- serenity11 points
- silently11 points
- sisterly11 points
- solitary11 points
- sorority11 points
- totality11 points
- treasury11 points
- uneasily11 points
- piquancy24 points
- adequacy23 points
- apoplexy22 points
- brazenly22 points
- gimmicky22 points
- ubiquity22 points
- biweekly20 points
- inequity20 points
- toxicity20 points
- advocacy19 points
- giveaway18 points
- shrewdly18 points
- downplay17 points
- entryway17 points
- fourthly17 points
- misogyny17 points
- paperboy17 points
- speedway17 points
- credibly16 points
- famously16 points
- shoddily16 points
- vacantly16 points
- voracity16 points
- divinely15 points
- doomsday15 points
- drowsily15 points
- fluidity15 points
- normalcy15 points
- passerby15 points
- potbelly15 points
- princely15 points
- scraggly15 points
- sloppily15 points
- somberly15 points
- sombrely15 points
- cogently14 points
- futilely14 points
- gloomily14 points
- hoarsely14 points
- lethally14 points
- lucidity14 points
- podiatry14 points
- speedily14 points
- underpay14 points
- absently13 points
- banality13 points
- blearily13 points
- prettily13 points
- sleepily13 points
- untimely13 points
- guaranty12 points
- idolatry12 points
- nondairy12 points
- unsteady12 points
- intently11 points
- ritually11 points
- serenely11 points
- sullenly11 points
- toiletry11 points
- quackery26 points
- wizardry24 points
- jokingly23 points
- abjectly22 points
- breezily22 points
- colloquy22 points
- detoxify22 points
- hatchway22 points
- opaquely22 points
- popinjay22 points
- squiggly22 points
- efficacy21 points
- exigency21 points
- jaggedly21 points
- jocundly21 points
- porphyry21 points
- cajolery20 points
- chambray20 points
- cheekily20 points
- choppily20 points
- doxology20 points
- iniquity20 points
- jocosely20 points
- jocosity20 points
- quaintly20 points
- queasily20 points
- revivify20 points
- sleazily20 points
- taxonomy20 points
- boyishly19 points
- fervency19 points
- fructify19 points
- hatchery19 points
- homebody19 points
- knightly19 points
- witchery19 points
- workaday19 points
- avowedly18 points
- bayberry18 points
- chancery18 points
- fervidly18 points
- foldaway18 points
- frippery18 points
- friskily18 points
- garlicky18 points
- impishly18 points
- rakishly18 points
- rubbishy18 points
- screechy18 points
- shimmery18 points
- splotchy18 points
- vibrancy18 points
- alleyway17 points
- crabbily17 points
- cytology17 points
- dewberry17 points
- fitfully17 points
- flashily17 points
- hegemony17 points
- hollowly17 points
- horsefly17 points
- housefly17 points
- lavishly17 points
- lawfully17 points
- malarkey17 points
- mightily17 points
- misapply17 points
- modishly17 points
- movingly17 points
- musketry17 points
- puppetry17 points
- reoccupy17 points
- rocketry17 points
- shiftily17 points
- stuffily17 points
- thievery17 points
- vagrancy17 points
- vapidity17 points
- woefully17 points
- wordplay17 points
- worthily17 points
- breviary16 points
- chastely16 points
- chattily16 points
- cheerily16 points
- cravenly16 points
- cupidity16 points
- damnably16 points
- demagogy16 points
- dormancy16 points
- emulsify16 points
- enviably16 points
- facially16 points
- falconry16 points
- fallibly16 points
- feasibly16 points
- felicity16 points
- fiscally16 points
- flimsily16 points
- frigidly16 points
- grumpily16 points
- limpidly16 points
- manfully16 points
- morbidly16 points
- mulishly16 points
- obduracy16 points
- overplay16 points
- prettify16 points
- pungency16 points
- solvency16 points
- spillway16 points
- stretchy16 points
- variably16 points
- acerbity15 points
- barberry15 points
- beggarly15 points
- creamery15 points
- creepily15 points
- deviltry15 points
- floridly15 points
- garishly15 points
- gentrify15 points
- gravelly15 points
- heraldry15 points
- horology15 points
- horridly15 points
- impurely15 points
- mulberry15 points
- nonempty15 points
- numeracy15 points
- palimony15 points
- passably15 points
- pitiably15 points
- rapacity15 points
- resupply15 points
- sociably15 points
- summitry15 points
- threnody15 points
- trumpery15 points
- vinegary15 points
- virology15 points
- vulgarly15 points
- woodenly15 points
- adorably14 points
- agronomy14 points
- artfully14 points
- banditry14 points
- benignly14 points
- bitingly14 points
- docilely14 points
- docility14 points
- dreamily14 points
- faultily14 points
- finitely14 points
- fluttery14 points
- frostily14 points
- futurity14 points
- gadgetry14 points
- groggily14 points
- hostelry14 points
- ignominy14 points
- lapidary14 points
- laudably14 points
- maidenly14 points
- meagerly14 points
- meagrely14 points
- oncology14 points
- overstay14 points
- penology14 points
- raggedly14 points
- redeploy14 points
- ribaldry14 points
- ruefully14 points
- ruggedly14 points
- sacredly14 points
- sagacity14 points
- salivary14 points
- sinfully14 points
- slithery14 points
- stultify14 points
- tangibly14 points
- unwisely14 points
- venality14 points
- wantonly14 points
- alacrity13 points
- amorally13 points
- antimony13 points
- apostasy13 points
- asperity13 points
- bestiary13 points
- blustery13 points
- carnally13 points
- causally13 points
- celerity13 points
- colliery13 points
- daringly13 points
- dotingly13 points
- lamasery13 points
- mannerly13 points
- maturely13 points
- menially13 points
- minatory13 points
Quick facts
- Total words: 1,711
- By usage: 339 very common, 486 common, 886 rare
Highest scoring (classic tiles)
- frizzily 32
- kolkhozy 31
- sovkhozy 30
- kazatsky 28
- hokypoky 27
- janizary 27
- quixotry 27
- schmalzy 27
- frowzily 26
- hexarchy 26
Most common
- majority
- quantity
- accuracy
- capacity
- commonly
- probably
- promptly
- publicly
- activity
- facility
Definitions
- majority (noun)
- The property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part.
- quantity (noun)
- How much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify.
- accuracy (noun)
- The quality of being near to the true value.
- capacity (noun)
- Capability to perform or produce.
Below you will find all 1,711 eight-letter words ending in Y from our dictionary, grouped in one list with the common words first. Each chip shows the word and its classic tile score, and a small dot marks the words that appear in everyday English. MAJORITY, QUANTITY and ACCURACY are typical of the familiar entries. To check which of these you can spell right now, enter your letters in the box above and press search.
How to use this page
The quickest route to an answer is the search box: enter your letters, use a question mark for a blank, and the list shrinks to the playable words. If you would rather browse, the chips below are sorted with common words first, and the related links lead to neighbouring lists for other letters and lengths.
Tips
Every score badge on this page is the sum of the tile values in the word, with no board multipliers applied. Classic tiles value the common letters at one point and the awkward letters higher, up to ten for Q and Z. Blank tiles score nothing. The actual points you earn depend on where the word lands, so a modest word on a double-word square beats a high-value word on plain squares. Use the badges to compare words quickly, then check the board for the multiplier that changes the picture.
Questions
How many eight-letter words ending in Y are there?
Our dictionary has 1,711 eight-letter words ending in Y, of which 825 are common English words. The count comes from the public-domain ENABLE list, so it can differ slightly from the dictionary a particular game uses.
What is the highest-scoring word among the eight-letter words ending in Y?
FRIZZILY scores 32 points with classic tile values, ignoring board multipliers. The full top ten is in the quick facts above; switch the tile set on the search tool if you play with different letter values.