Five-letter words ending in LY
103 words, number 3 of 285 two-letter endings
Every five-letter word in ENABLE (a public-domain Scrabble-style list, not any game’s answer list) that ends in LY, slurs removed, common words first. 46 of the 103 are common in English dictionaries (the SCOWL grade), which says nothing about any puzzle’s answer. The letter just before LY is most often LLY (37), ILY (9), RLY (8).
Open the finder with LY in the last two spotsfor yellow and grey letters, or letters in other spots
103 of 103 words shown
Common 46 words, in SCOWL’s small dictionary sizes (35 or less)
- amply
- apply
- aptly
- badly
- belly
- bully
- burly
- curly
- daily
- dally
- dimly
- doily
- dolly
- drily
- dryly
- dully
- early
- filly
- folly
- fully
- gaily
- godly
- gully
- hilly
- holly
- hotly
- imply
- jelly
- jolly
- lowly
- madly
- manly
- mealy
- newly
- nobly
- oddly
- rally
- reply
- sadly
- sally
- scaly
- silly
- slyly
- surly
- tally
- truly
Everyday 12 words, SCOWL sizes 40-50
- billy
- coyly
- dilly
- fitly
- golly
- icily
- laxly
- shyly
- sully
- wanly
- wetly
- wryly
Less common 25 words, SCOWL sizes 55-70
- bally
- bialy
- coaly
- colly
- cully
- fatly
- felly
- feyly
- girly
- haply
- jowly
- kelly
- lolly
- marly
- molly
- nelly
- pally
- patly
- redly
- roily
- sonly
- telly
- wally
- welly
- willy
Rare 20 words, SCOWL sizes 80-95, or not in SCOWL
- bigly
- delly
- dooly
- doyly
- ferly
- gally
- gayly
- gilly
- hooly
- hurly
- muhly
- noily
- rawly
- refly
- seely
- shaly
- shily
- slily
- vealy
- wooly
No word ending in LY fits both filters. Remove a letter to widen the list.
0 inflected forms: no word ending in LY is a plural or an -s, -es or -ed form under the rule on the word-list index, because that rule only ever catches words ending in S or D.