Words that end in -y
English words ending in -y, grouped by number of syllables. Great for rhymes and spelling practice.
There are 5,921 words in our list; here are the 500 most common.
1 syllable 34
2 syllables 170
- only on-ly
- any an-y
- very ver-y
- really real-ly
- many man-y
- every ev-ery
- money mon-ey
- away a-way
- city cit-y
- today to-day
- party par-ty
- country coun-try
- story sto-ry
- early ear-ly
- body bod-y
- pretty pret-ty
- happy hap-py
- easy eas-y
- ready read-y
- baby ba-by
- study stud-y
- likely like-ly
- county coun-ty
- sorry sor-ry
- enjoy en-joy
- simply sim-ply
- crazy cra-zy
- daily dai-ly
- army ar-my
- okay o-kay
- funny fun-ny
- nearly near-ly
- quickly quick-ly
- safety safe-ty
- heavy heav-y
- lady la-dy
- clearly clear-ly
- carry car-ry
- fully ful-ly
- highly high-ly
- holy ho-ly
- truly tru-ly
- worry wor-ry
- mostly most-ly
- apply ap-ply
- supply sup-ply
- healthy health-y
- copy cop-y
- lucky luck-y
- birthday birth-day
- beauty beau-ty
- busy bus-y
- slightly slight-ly
- lovely love-ly
- plenty plen-ty
- valley val-ley
- duty du-ty
- survey sur-vey
- entry en-try
- angry an-gry
- jersey jer-sey
- journey jour-ney
- twenty twen-ty
- friendly friend-ly
- display dis-play
- slowly slow-ly
- tiny ti-ny
- guilty guilt-y
- largely large-ly
- mainly main-ly
- empty emp-ty
- navy na-vy
- weekly week-ly
- turkey tur-key
- dirty dirt-y
- nearby near-by
- surely sure-ly
- widely wide-ly
- closely close-ly
- hardly hard-ly
- destroy de-stroy
- fairly fair-ly
- monthly month-ly
- reply re-ply
- barely bare-ly
- highway high-way
- jury ju-ry
- shortly short-ly
- strongly strong-ly
- railway rail-way
- hungry hun-gry
- badly bad-ly
- deeply deep-ly
- hockey hock-ey
- newly new-ly
- rarely rare-ly
- ugly ug-ly
- lately late-ly
- buddy bud-dy
- delay de-lay
- marry mar-ry
- rugby rug-by
- silly sil-ly
- thirty thir-ty
- honey hon-ey
- merely mere-ly
- scary scar-y
- daddy dad-dy
- glory glo-ry
- roughly rough-ly
- fancy fan-cy
- deny de-ny
- rally ral-ly
- greatly great-ly
- steady stead-y
- treaty trea-ty
- partly part-ly
- candy can-dy
- fifty fif-ty
- rely re-ly
- worthy wor-thy
- bloody blood-y
- lonely lone-ly
- mercy mer-cy
- vary var-y
- lazy la-zy
- pussy pus-sy
- essay es-say
- briefly brief-ly
- nasty nas-ty
- safely safe-ly
- wealthy wealth-y
- forty for-ty
- solely sole-ly
- sandy sand-y
- cherry cher-ry
- sadly sad-ly
- trophy tro-phy
- deadly dead-ly
- rocky rock-y
- strictly strict-ly
- hurry hur-ry
- ally al-ly
- array ar-ray
- belly bel-ly
- derby der-by
- mighty might-y
- poorly poor-ly
- purely pure-ly
- dairy dair-y
- fairy fair-y
- gently gen-tly
- freely free-ly
- monkey mon-key
- nicely nice-ly
- penny pen-ny
- petty pet-ty
- sunny sun-ny
- halfway half-way
- laundry laun-dry
- frankly frank-ly
- someday some-day
- subway sub-way
- comply com-ply
- creepy creep-y
- kidney kid-ney
- lobby lob-by
- thereby there-by
- ferry fer-ry
- namely name-ly
3 syllables 130
- family fam-i-ly
- company com-pa-ny
- already al-read-y
- history his-to-ry
- probably prob-a-bly
- energy en-er-gy
- industry in-dus-try
- finally fi-nal-ly
- policy pol-i-cy
- exactly ex-act-ly
- property prop-er-ty
- quality qual-i-ty
- currently cur-rent-ly
- century cen-tu-ry
- recently re-cent-ly
- certainly cer-tain-ly
- completely com-plete-ly
- nobody no-bod-y
- anyway an-y-way
- easily eas-i-ly
- yesterday yes-ter-day
- directly di-rect-ly
- primary pri-ma-ry
- theory the-o-ry
- agency a-gen-cy
- library li-brar-y
- totally to-tal-ly
- memory mem-o-ry
- somebody some-bod-y
- extremely ex-treme-ly
- possibly pos-si-bly
- injury in-ju-ry
- strategy strat-e-gy
- victory vic-to-ry
- entirely en-tire-ly
- enemy en-e-my
- attorney at-tor-ney
- honestly hon-est-ly
- suddenly sud-den-ly
- holiday hol-i-day
- properly prop-er-ly
- ministry min-is-try
- surgery sur-ger-y
- assembly as-sem-bly
- perfectly per-fect-ly
- normally nor-mal-ly
- frequently fre-quent-ly
- hopefully hope-ful-ly
- deputy dep-u-ty
- factory fac-to-ry
- heavily heav-i-ly
- constantly con-stant-ly
- battery bat-ter-y
- fantasy fan-ta-sy
- therapy ther-a-py
- comedy com-e-dy
- gallery gal-ler-y
- everyday ev-ery-day
- carefully care-ful-ly
- poverty pov-er-ty
- charity char-i-ty
- mystery mys-ter-y
- penalty pen-al-ty
- poetry po-et-ry
- equally e-qual-ly
- commonly com-mon-ly
- currency cur-ren-cy
- legacy leg-a-cy
- summary sum-ma-ry
- frequency fre-quen-cy
- privacy pri-va-cy
- salary sal-a-ry
- chemistry chem-is-try
- luxury lux-u-ry
- liberty lib-er-ty
- rapidly rap-id-ly
- density den-si-ty
- pregnancy preg-nan-cy
- faculty fac-ul-ty
- unlikely un-like-ly
- equity eq-ui-ty
- galaxy gal-ax-y
- publicly pub-lic-ly
- inquiry in-quir-y
- formerly for-mer-ly
- treasury treas-ur-y
- actively ac-tive-ly
- instantly in-stant-ly
- custody cus-to-dy
- unity u-ni-ty
- correctly cor-rect-ly
- gravity grav-i-ty
- legally le-gal-ly
- slavery slav-er-y
- mentally men-tal-ly
- precisely pre-cise-ly
- destiny des-ti-ny
- partially par-tial-ly
- qualify qual-i-fy
- contrary con-tra-ry
- loyalty loy-al-ty
- elderly el-der-ly
- quietly qui-et-ly
- justify jus-ti-fy
- tragedy trag-e-dy
- boundary bound-a-ry
- courtesy cour-te-sy
- embassy em-bas-sy
- colony col-o-ny
- entity en-ti-ty
- jewelry jew-el-ry
- bankruptcy bank-rupt-cy
- happily hap-pi-ly
- harmony har-mo-ny
- locally lo-cal-ly
- openly o-pen-ly
- seemingly seem-ing-ly
- severely se-vere-ly
- diary di-a-ry
- thoroughly thor-ough-ly
- quantity quan-ti-ty
- grocery gro-cer-y
- unhappy un-hap-py
- majesty maj-es-ty
- dignity dig-ni-ty
- mercury mer-cu-ry
- utterly ut-ter-ly
- formally for-mal-ly
- notably no-ta-bly
- privately pri-vate-ly
4 syllables 118
- actually ac-tu-al-ly
- community com-mu-ni-ty
- especially es-pe-cial-ly
- military mil-i-tar-y
- security se-cu-ri-ty
- society so-ci-e-ty
- usually u-su-al-ly
- technology tech-nol-o-gy
- absolutely ab-so-lute-ly
- ability a-bil-i-ty
- definitely def-i-nite-ly
- generally gen-er-al-ly
- secretary sec-re-ta-ry
- majority ma-jor-i-ty
- seriously se-ri-ous-ly
- literally lit-er-al-ly
- necessary nec-es-sar-y
- reality re-al-i-ty
- economy e-con-o-my
- activity ac-tiv-i-ty
- everybody ev-ery-bod-y
- previously pre-vi-ous-ly
- authority au-thor-i-ty
- apparently ap-par-ent-ly
- obviously ob-vi-ous-ly
- variety va-ri-e-ty
- emergency e-mer-gen-cy
- capacity ca-pac-i-ty
- relatively rel-a-tive-ly
- identity i-den-ti-ty
- basically ba-si-cal-ly
- typically typ-i-cal-ly
- facility fa-cil-i-ty
- territory ter-ri-to-ry
- delivery de-liv-er-y
- recovery re-cov-er-y
- academy a-cad-e-my
- category cat-e-go-ry
- personally per-son-al-ly
- ultimately ul-ti-mate-ly
- anybody an-y-bod-y
- identify i-den-ti-fy
- officially of-fi-cial-ly
- secondary sec-ond-ar-y
- regularly reg-u-lar-ly
- democracy de-moc-ra-cy
- effectively ef-fec-tive-ly
- initially in-i-tial-ly
- philosophy phi-los-o-phy
- naturally nat-u-ral-ly
- primarily pri-ma-ri-ly
- temporary tem-po-rar-y
- anxiety anx-i-e-ty
- discovery dis-cov-er-y
- photography pho-tog-ra-phy
- respectively re-spec-tive-ly
- successfully suc-cess-ful-ly
- ceremony cer-e-mo-ny
- essentially es-sen-tial-ly
- ordinary or-di-nar-y
- minority mi-nor-i-ty
- priority pri-or-i-ty
- potentially po-ten-tial-ly
- efficiency ef-fi-cien-cy
- increasingly in-creas-ing-ly
- incredibly in-cred-i-bly
- difficulty dif-fi-cul-ty
- diversity di-ver-si-ty
- humanity hu-man-i-ty
- literary lit-er-ar-y
- psychology psy-chol-o-gy
- stability sta-bil-i-ty
- physically phys-i-cal-ly
- similarly sim-i-lar-ly
- celebrity ce-leb-ri-ty
- utility u-til-i-ty
- conspiracy con-spir-a-cy
- controversy con-tro-ver-sy
- equality e-qual-i-ty
- virtually vir-tu-al-ly
- accuracy ac-cu-ra-cy
- consistently con-sist-ent-ly
- exclusively ex-clu-sive-ly
- differently dif-fer-ent-ly
- legendary leg-end-ar-y
- subsequently sub-se-quent-ly
- biology bi-ol-o-gy
- integrity in-teg-ri-ty
- gradually grad-u-al-ly
- repeatedly re-peat-ed-ly
- commentary com-men-tar-y
- practically prac-ti-cal-ly
- advisory ad-vi-so-ry
- testimony tes-ti-mo-ny
- annually an-nu-al-ly
- presidency pres-i-den-cy
- intensity in-ten-si-ty
- inventory in-ven-to-ry
- mandatory man-da-to-ry
- reportedly re-port-ed-ly
- genuinely gen-u-ine-ly
- monetary mon-e-tar-y
- technically tech-ni-cal-ly
- importantly im-por-tant-ly
- surprisingly sur-pris-ing-ly
- permanently per-ma-nent-ly
- separately sep-a-rate-ly
- allegedly al-leg-ed-ly
- cemetery cem-e-ter-y
- presumably pre-sum-a-bly
- apology a-pol-o-gy
- mobility mo-bil-i-ty
- reasonably rea-son-a-bly
- uncertainty un-cer-tain-ty
- accordingly ac-cord-ing-ly
- complexity com-plex-i-ty
- dictionary dic-tion-ar-y
- machinery ma-chin-er-y
5 or more syllables 48
- university u-ni-ver-si-ty
- immediately im-me-di-ate-ly
- particularly par-tic-u-lar-ly
- opportunity op-por-tu-ni-ty
- eventually e-ven-tu-al-ly
- responsibility re-spon-si-bil-i-ty
- originally o-rig-i-nal-ly
- specifically spe-cif-i-cal-ly
- approximately ap-prox-i-mate-ly
- unfortunately un-for-tu-nate-ly
- possibility pos-si-bil-i-ty
- personality per-son-al-i-ty
- significantly sig-nif-i-cant-ly
- anniversary an-ni-ver-sa-ry
- automatically au-to-mat-i-cal-ly
- contemporary con-tem-po-rar-y
- necessarily nec-es-sar-i-ly
- electricity e-lec-tric-i-ty
- occasionally oc-ca-sion-al-ly
- extraordinary ex-traor-di-nar-y
- elementary el-e-men-ta-ry
- documentary doc-u-men-ta-ry
- laboratory lab-o-ra-to-ry
- popularity pop-u-lar-i-ty
- regulatory reg-u-la-to-ry
- accidentally ac-ci-den-tal-ly
- disability dis-a-bil-i-ty
- additionally ad-di-tion-al-ly
- parliamentary par-lia-men-ta-ry
- unnecessary un-nec-es-sar-y
- revolutionary rev-o-lu-tion-ar-y
- simultaneously si-mul-ta-ne-ous-ly
- liability li-a-bil-i-ty
- preliminary pre-lim-i-nar-y
- productivity pro-duc-tiv-i-ty
- availability a-vail-a-bil-i-ty
- historically his-tor-i-cal-ly
- capability ca-pa-bil-i-ty
- independently in-de-pend-ent-ly
- politically pol-i-ti-cal-ly
- temporarily tem-po-rar-i-ly
- traditionally tra-di-tion-al-ly
- emotionally e-mo-tion-al-ly
- deliberately de-lib-er-ate-ly
- flexibility flex-i-bil-i-ty
- ideology i-de-ol-o-gy
- probability prob-a-bil-i-ty
- creativity cre-a-tiv-i-ty