Eight-letter words ending in Y
1,710 eight-letter words end with the letter Y. Here is the full list, grouped by first letter — handy when a crossword gives you the last square and nothing else.
Most common eight-letter words ending in Y
Ranked by how often they appear in written English.
- security
- property
- category
- industry
- delivery
- activity
- military
- actually
- friendly
- recently
- probably
- directly
- strategy
- capacity
- facility
- currency
- attorney
- quantity
- recovery
- identify
- warranty
- assembly
- priority
- ministry
Highest-scoring eight-letter words ending in Y
Standard Scrabble tile values, before any board multipliers.
- frizzily 32
- kolkhozy 31
- sovkhozy 30
- kazatsky 28
- hokypoky 27
- janizary 27
- quixotry 27
- schmalzy 27
- frowzily 26
- hexarchy 26
- quackery 26
- wheezily 26
- zymology 26
- blowzily 25
- jejunely 25
- jejunity 25
- shmaltzy 25
- squelchy 25
- zoophily 25
- denazify 24
- hexapody 24
- hummocky 24
- jackstay 24
- joyfully 24
All 1,710 eight-letter words ending in Y
A 100 See all
- abasedly
- abeyancy
- abjectly
- aborally
- abruptly
- absently
- absurdly
- accuracy
- acerbity
- achingly
- acridity
- acrimony
- actively
- activity
- actressy
- actually
- adamancy
- additory
- adequacy
- adorably
- adroitly
- adultery
- advisory
- advocacy
- aerially
- aerology
- aeronomy
- affinely
- affinity
- agrimony
- agrology
- agronomy
- aguishly
- aimfully
- aisleway
- alacrity
B 94 See all
- backstay
- badgerly
- balladry
- banality
- banditry
- bankerly
- barberry
- barratry
- barrenly
- barretry
- basicity
- basilary
- basketry
- bastardy
- bayberry
- beachboy
- bearably
- beautify
- beggarly
- benignly
- bestiary
- biasedly
- biddably
- bifidity
- bigeminy
- bihourly
- bilberry
- binately
- bioassay
- biometry
- bioscopy
- birthday
- bistoury
- bitchery
- bitchily
- bitingly
C 144 See all
- cableway
- caducity
- caecally
- cajolery
- calamary
- calamity
- candidly
- caninity
- cannonry
- capacity
- carnally
- cartoony
- castaway
- casually
- casualty
- catchfly
- category
- catenary
- caudally
- causally
- causeway
- cavitary
- celerity
- celibacy
- cemetery
- centaury
- ceremony
- cetology
- chambray
- chancery
- chancily
- charlady
- chastely
- chastity
- chattery
- chattily
D 66 See all
- daintily
- damnably
- dapperly
- daringly
- datively
- deaconry
- debility
- decenary
- decently
- delegacy
- delicacy
- delivery
- delusory
- demagogy
- demurely
- denazify
- deniably
- dentally
- derisory
- detoxify
- deucedly
- deviancy
- deviltry
- devoutly
- dewberry
- diablery
- diaphony
- didynamy
- dilatory
- diploidy
- directly
- disarray
- dismally
- distally
- disunity
- divinely
E 52 See all
- earthily
- easterly
- effetely
- efficacy
- eighthly
- elatedly
- elegancy
- elfishly
- eligibly
- elvishly
- eminency
- emissary
- emulsify
- enactory
- endarchy
- endogamy
- endogeny
- enginery
- enormity
- ensigncy
- enthalpy
- entirely
- entirety
- entreaty
- entryway
- enviably
- epically
- epilepsy
- epinasty
- epiphany
- epistasy
- epizooty
- equality
- equinely
- equinity
- errantly
F 103 See all
- facetely
- facially
- facilely
- facility
- fadeaway
- falconry
- fallaway
- fallibly
- famously
- farriery
- fatality
- fatherly
- faultily
- faunally
- feasibly
- feathery
- federacy
- felicity
- felinely
- felinity
- fellowly
- feminacy
- feminity
- feracity
- feretory
- ferocity
- fervency
- fervidly
- festally
- fetology
- feudally
- fidelity
- fiercely
- filially
- filthily
- finality
G 63 See all
- gadgetry
- gapingly
- garganey
- garishly
- garlicky
- gauchely
- gelidity
- gemology
- genially
- gentrify
- geognosy
- geomancy
- geometry
- geophagy
- gibingly
- giftedly
- gimmicky
- gingeley
- gingelly
- gingerly
- giveaway
- glassily
- glaziery
- glittery
- globally
- gloomily
- glossary
- glossily
- glumpily
- gluttony
- goldenly
- gorbelly
- gorblimy
- gorgedly
- gossipry
- gramercy
H 60 See all
- hagberry
- haploidy
- harlotry
- hatchery
- hatchway
- headachy
- headstay
- heartily
- heatedly
- heathery
- heavenly
- hecticly
- hegemony
- hegumeny
- helicity
- heraldry
- hereaway
- heredity
- hermitry
- herstory
- hexapody
- hexarchy
- hiddenly
- hideaway
- hilarity
- hillocky
- hoarsely
- hogmanay
- hogmenay
- hokypoky
- hollowly
- hologamy
- hologyny
- homebody
- homestay
- homogamy
I 44 See all
- ideality
- idealogy
- identify
- identity
- ideology
- idolatry
- idoneity
- ignominy
- illusory
- immunity
- imparity
- impishly
- impolicy
- impunity
- impurely
- impurity
- incisory
- indignly
- industry
- inequity
- infantry
- infinity
- infirmly
- iniquity
- inkberry
- innately
- insanely
- insanity
- instancy
- intently
- interlay
- intimacy
- intraday
- inverity
- inviably
- inwardly
J 24 See all
- jackstay
- jadishly
- jaggedly
- jagghery
- janisary
- janizary
- japingly
- jauntily
- jealousy
- jejunely
- jejunity
- jeopardy
- jesuitry
- jibingly
- jocosely
- jocosity
- jocundly
- jokingly
- jovially
- jovialty
- joyfully
- joyously
- jugglery
- juratory
K 9 See all
- kazatsky
- kielbasy
- kissably
- knackery
- knightly
- knottily
- kolinsky
- kolkhosy
- kolkhozy
L 60 See all
- labially
- lability
- lackaday
- lacunary
- laically
- lamasery
- lambency
- laminary
- landlady
- lanosity
- lapidary
- lapidify
- latchkey
- latently
- latinity
- latterly
- laudably
- lavatory
- lavishly
- lawfully
- lawyerly
- leadenly
- leathery
- legality
- legendry
- legerity
- leniency
- lethally
- lethargy
- lientery
- limberly
- limitary
- limpidly
- lineally
- linearly
- liquidly
M 106 See all
- maccaboy
- maccoboy
- mahogany
- maidenly
- mainstay
- majority
- malarkey
- malignly
- manfully
- mangabey
- mannerly
- manually
- markedly
- martyrly
- massedly
- masterly
- matronly
- mattedly
- maturely
- maturity
- maumetry
- meagerly
- meagrely
- medially
- medianly
- megacity
- mellowly
- menially
- menology
- mentally
- mesially
- mesnalty
- metonymy
- micrurgy
- midstory
- mightily
N 38 See all
- nabobery
- narrowly
- nasality
- nascency
- natality
- natantly
- natatory
- natively
- nativity
- naumachy
- nebbishy
- necropsy
- neurally
- nihility
- nitpicky
- nobility
- nodality
- nodosity
- nomarchy
- nomology
- nondairy
- nonempty
- nonentry
- nonfatty
- nonhardy
- nonleafy
- nonmoney
- nonparty
- nonstory
- nonwoody
- normalcy
- normally
- nosology
- nounally
- nubility
- nugatory
O 47 See all
- oafishly
- obduracy
- obituary
- oblately
- oblatory
- oblongly
- obtusely
- obtusity
- occultly
- octarchy
- octonary
- ocularly
- odiously
- odometry
- oecology
- oenology
- offishly
- ogrishly
- oinology
- omophagy
- oncology
- ontogeny
- ontology
- opaquely
- operably
- opsonify
- opulency
- orangery
- ordinary
- ornately
- orthoepy
- otiosely
- otiosity
- otoscopy
- outbully
- outlawry
P 108 See all
- paduasoy
- palimony
- pallidly
- palpably
- paltrily
- pandowdy
- pansophy
- paperboy
- papistry
- passably
- passerby
- patchily
- patently
- patronly
- peacocky
- peccancy
- pedagogy
- pedantry
- pedately
- peddlery
- pedology
- penality
- pendency
- penology
- perigyny
- peripety
- perspiry
- petalody
- pettedly
- phantasy
- pharmacy
- phyllary
- picnicky
- pilosity
- pipingly
- piquancy
Q 11 See all
- quackery
- quagmiry
- quaintly
- quandary
- quantify
- quantity
- queasily
- quiddity
- quirkily
- quixotry
- quotably
R 80 See all
- rabbitry
- rabidity
- racially
- radially
- radiancy
- raggedly
- ragingly
- raillery
- rakishly
- ramosely
- ramosity
- rampancy
- rancidly
- randomly
- rapacity
- rapidity
- rascally
- rateably
- ravingly
- readably
- readerly
- recently
- recodify
- reconvey
- recovery
- rectally
- redeploy
- reembody
- reemploy
- refinery
- reflexly
- regality
- registry
- regnancy
- reinjury
- reliably
S 243 See all
- sacredly
- sacristy
- saddlery
- sagacity
- sailorly
- salacity
- saleably
- saliency
- salinity
- salivary
- sallowly
- salutary
- salvably
- sanctify
- sanctity
- sanitary
- sapidity
- sapiency
- saponify
- satiably
- savagely
- savagery
- savingly
- savorily
- scabbily
- scalably
- scammony
- scantily
- scarcely
- scarcity
- schlocky
- schmalzy
- scrabbly
- scraggly
- scratchy
- screechy
T 93 See all
- tabooley
- takeaway
- takingly
- tangency
- tangibly
- tanistry
- tapestry
- tarnally
- tawdrily
- taxingly
- taxonomy
- teaberry
- tearaway
- telegony
- teleplay
- temerity
- tenacity
- tenantry
- tendency
- tenderly
- tenotomy
- tenpenny
- tensibly
- tepidity
- terribly
- tertiary
- tetchily
- textuary
- thataway
- thearchy
- theodicy
- theogony
- theology
- theonomy
- thickety
- thievery
U 62 See all
- ubiquity
- udometry
- ultimacy
- ultradry
- unbloody
- unbouncy
- uncatchy
- unchancy
- unchicly
- uncially
- uncomely
- underbuy
- underlay
- underpay
- underway
- uneasily
- unevenly
- unfairly
- unflashy
- ungainly
- ungently
- ungreedy
- unholily
- uniquely
- unitedly
- unjustly
- unkindly
- unkingly
- unlikely
- unlively
- unlovely
- unmeetly
- unpretty
- unreally
- unripely
- unsafely
V 52 See all
- vacantly
- vagility
- vagotomy
- vagrancy
- valiancy
- validity
- valuably
- vanitory
- vapidity
- variably
- variedly
- varletry
- varnishy
- vasotomy
- veiledly
- velleity
- velocity
- venality
- vendibly
- venially
- venosity
- venously
- veracity
- verbally
- verdancy
- vernally
- vespiary
- vestally
- vestiary
- vexingly
- vibrancy
- vicenary
- vicinity
- villainy
- vincibly
- vinegary
W 38 See all
- walkaway
- wantonly
- wardenry
- warranty
- wasteway
- watchcry
- waterily
- waterway
- waxberry
- weaponry
- weaselly
- weevilly
- welladay
- wellaway
- westerly
- wheezily
- whiskery
- whispery
- whitefly
- wickedly
- widthway
- wilfully
- wingedly
- winterly
- wintrily
- witchery
- wizardly
- wizardry
- woefully
- wontedly
- woodenly
- wooingly
- woollily
- wordplay
- workaday
- worthily
X 3 See all
- xenogamy
- xenogeny
- xylotomy
Y 4 See all
- yeastily
- yellowly
- yeomanly
- yeomanry
Z 6 See all
- zealotry
- zoolatry
- zoometry
- zoophily
- zygosity
- zymology
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Common questions
How many eight-letter words end in Y?
There are 1,710 eight-letter words ending in Y, all listed on this page in alphabetical order.
What are the most common eight-letter words ending in Y?
Ranked by how often they appear in written English, the most common are: security, property, category, industry, delivery, activity, military, actually. The full "most common" list is near the top of this page.
What is the highest-scoring eight-letter word ending in Y in Scrabble?
frizzily scores 32 points on plain tiles, before any double- or triple-word squares. Premium squares and the 50-point bingo bonus can change the ranking completely.
Are proper nouns and abbreviations included?
No. The list only contains words from the ENABLE lexicon, which excludes proper nouns, abbreviations and hyphenated forms — the same rule tournament Scrabble and most word games follow. Read more on the methodology page.
Counted from a 172,749-word public-domain lexicon, last reviewed 2026-08-01. How this list was built.