Nine-letter words ending in Y
1,304 nine-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 nine-letter words ending in Y
Ranked by how often they appear in written English.
- community
- directory
- currently
- necessary
- authority
- secretary
- emergency
- generally
- yesterday
- frequency
- secondary
- certainly
- liability
- extremely
- chemistry
- celebrity
- pregnancy
- biography
- specialty
- discovery
- inventory
- territory
- temporary
- democracy
Highest-scoring nine-letter words ending in Y
Standard Scrabble tile values, before any board multipliers.
- showbizzy 38
- blizzardy 33
- schmaltzy 28
- coxcombry 27
- breezeway 26
- cockneyfy 26
- exemplify 26
- frequency 26
- objectify 26
- rhizotomy 26
- complexly 25
- hawkishly 25
- mycophagy 25
- adjacency 24
- amazingly 24
- blazingly 24
- cockamamy 24
- convexity 24
- enjoyably 24
- mawkishly 24
- okeydokey 24
- quadruply 24
- reliquefy 24
- requalify 24
All 1,304 nine-letter words ending in Y
A 99
- aberrancy
- abidingly
- absurdity
- abusively
- abysmally
- accessary
- accessory
- acclivity
- accompany
- actuality
- adamantly
- adiposity
- adjacency
- adjunctly
- adjutancy
- admirably
- admiralty
- adoringly
- adulatory
- adversary
- adversely
- adversity
- advisably
- advisedly
- aetiology
- affluency
- agelessly
- agreeably
- aimlessly
- airworthy
- aliteracy
- allegedly
- allometry
- allopatry
- allostery
- allotropy
- allowably
- allowedly
- alterably
- altimetry
- amatively
- amazingly
- ambiguity
- amorality
- amorously
- amphiboly
- ampullary
- amusingly
- anciently
- ancientry
- ancillary
- androgyny
- angularly
- animality
- animately
- animosity
- anisogamy
- anonymity
- anthology
- antically
- antiparty
- antipathy
- antiphony
- antiquary
- antiquity
- antistory
- anxiously
- appetency
- apriority
- arability
- arbitrary
- archduchy
- archenemy
- arcuately
- arduously
- artillery
- artlessly
- asexually
- ashamedly
- asininely
- asininity
- assiduity
- assumably
- assuredly
- astrology
- astronomy
- asymmetry
- atonality
- audiology
- austerely
- austerity
- authority
- autocracy
- auxiliary
- availably
- averagely
- avoidably
- awesomely
- awkwardly
B 59
- bacillary
- balefully
- baneberry
- banefully
- baptistry
- barbarity
- barometry
- baronetcy
- baroquely
- bashfully
- basically
- bastardly
- beamishly
- bearberry
- bearishly
- belatedly
- bemusedly
- benignity
- berserkly
- bestially
- biaxially
- bifilarly
- bigotedly
- biliously
- bimonthly
- bindingly
- biography
- biosafety
- bipedally
- bizarrely
- blackbody
- blaeberry
- blasphemy
- blatantly
- blazingly
- blessedly
- blizzardy
- blotchily
- blueberry
- bookishly
- boorishly
- bracingly
- breakaway
- breathily
- breezeway
- brittlely
- brotherly
- brusquely
- brutality
- brutishly
- budgetary
- bulbously
- bullishly
- bumpkinly
- buoyantly
- burningly
- butcherly
- butterfly
- buttinsky
C 109
- cabinetry
- cacophony
- caddishly
- callosity
- callously
- candidacy
- capillary
- capitally
- captaincy
- captivity
- carefully
- carnality
- carpentry
- carpingly
- cartulary
- cassowary
- casuistry
- catalepsy
- cataplexy
- causality
- celebrity
- centenary
- centrally
- certainly
- certainty
- champerty
- chandlery
- chemistry
- chicanery
- chirality
- chiropody
- chocolaty
- chokingly
- circuitry
- citizenly
- citizenry
- civically
- clamantly
- clemently
- clonicity
- cloyingly
- coaxially
- cockamamy
- cockneyfy
- coequally
- coevality
- cognately
- coherency
- colonelcy
- colophony
- colorably
- colostomy
- coltishly
- comically
- commodify
- commodity
- community
- compactly
- complexly
- comradely
- comradery
- concavity
- concisely
- condignly
- congruity
- conically
- connately
- constancy
- contrasty
- contumacy
- contumely
- convexity
- copiously
- cordately
- cordially
- corollary
- correctly
- corruptly
- cosmogony
- cosmology
- costively
- costumery
- countably
- covalency
- coxcombry
- cranberry
- cranially
- credulity
- crematory
- crookedly
- crotchety
- crowberry
- crucially
- crunchily
- cryoscopy
- cubically
- cuckoldry
- cultishly
- cunningly
- curiosity
- curiously
- currently
- currishly
- cursively
- cursorily
- customary
- cuttingly
- cyclicity
- cynically
D 75
- damnatory
- damningly
- damselfly
- dandruffy
- darlingly
- dashingly
- dastardly
- deacidify
- decadency
- decalcify
- decertify
- decidedly
- decimally
- declivity
- decretory
- deerberry
- defiantly
- definably
- deformity
- democracy
- demystify
- denitrify
- dentistry
- denyingly
- depravity
- desirably
- desultory
- deviatory
- deviously
- devitrify
- devotedly
- dexterity
- diachrony
- diathermy
- dichogamy
- dichotomy
- dietarily
- diffusely
- digitally
- dignitary
- dilatancy
- diplomacy
- directory
- direfully
- discovery
- disembody
- disparity
- distantly
- diurnally
- diversely
- diversify
- diversity
- dividedly
- dobsonfly
- doggishly
- dolefully
- dollishly
- doltishly
- donnishly
- doohickey
- doomfully
- dormitory
- dosimetry
- doughtily
- dragonfly
- dromedary
- droningly
- drunkenly
- dubiously
- ductility
- dullishly
- duplicity
- dutifully
- dysentery
- dystrophy
E 53
- earnestly
- easefully
- edibility
- electrify
- electuary
- elegantly
- elusively
- embracery
- emergency
- eminently
- emotively
- emotivity
- emulously
- endlessly
- endoscopy
- endurably
- enjoyably
- entelechy
- enterally
- enviously
- envyingly
- epigraphy
- epochally
- equitably
- erosivity
- eruditely
- estimably
- eternally
- ethically
- ethnicity
- ethnology
- etymology
- eurhythmy
- evasively
- everybody
- evidently
- exaltedly
- excitedly
- excretory
- excusably
- execrably
- executory
- exemplary
- exemplify
- exigently
- expiatory
- expletory
- expressly
- extensity
- extrality
- extremely
- extremity
- exultancy
F 60
- facticity
- factually
- failingly
- fairishly
- fallalery
- fatefully
- fatuously
- favorably
- fawningly
- fearfully
- fecundity
- federally
- feelingly
- fertilely
- fertility
- fervently
- festively
- festivity
- fetoscopy
- feudality
- feudatory
- fictively
- fiduciary
- finically
- fissility
- fittingly
- flaccidly
- flagrancy
- flamingly
- flannelly
- flaringly
- flightily
- flippancy
- floridity
- floristry
- flowerily
- flowingly
- fluidally
- foolhardy
- foolishly
- foppishly
- forlornly
- formality
- formicary
- formulary
- forwardly
- fragility
- fragrancy
- frenchify
- frequency
- fretfully
- frigidity
- frivolity
- frontally
- frowardly
- frugality
- fulgently
- fulsomely
- furiously
- furtively
G 39
- gainfully
- gallantly
- gallantry
- gallingly
- garrulity
- gawkishly
- geminally
- gemmology
- genealogy
- generally
- geniality
- genically
- genitally
- genteelly
- gentility
- genuinely
- geobotany
- geography
- germanely
- gibbosity
- gimmickry
- girlishly
- glacially
- glaringly
- gleefully
- glengarry
- glowingly
- gossamery
- gracility
- gradually
- grandaddy
- grandbaby
- gratingly
- gravidity
- grouchily
- growingly
- guardedly
- gushingly
- gustatory
H 49
- habitably
- hackberry
- haecceity
- haggardly
- hagiology
- halfpenny
- haltingly
- haplessly
- haplology
- harmfully
- hatefully
- haughtily
- hawkishly
- healthily
- hedgingly
- heedfully
- heinously
- helically
- hellishly
- helpfully
- heptarchy
- herbivory
- hesitancy
- hideosity
- hideously
- hierarchy
- hillbilly
- histology
- hoggishly
- homophony
- homoplasy
- homospory
- honorably
- hopefully
- horseplay
- hortatory
- hostilely
- hostility
- howlingly
- hugeously
- hurriedly
- hurtfully
- husbandly
- husbandry
- hybridity
- hydrology
- hymnology
- hypergamy
- hypocrisy
I 62
- iconicity
- iconology
- illegally
- illegibly
- illicitly
- imaginary
- immanency
- immediacy
- immensely
- immensity
- imminency
- immodesty
- immorally
- immovably
- immutably
- impiously
- impotency
- inability
- inaudibly
- incapably
- incurably
- indecency
- indelibly
- indemnify
- indemnity
- indignity
- inebriety
- ineffably
- inerrancy
- inexactly
- infirmary
- infirmity
- ingenuity
- inharmony
- inhumanly
- initially
- innocency
- insectary
- insipidly
- insolubly
- instantly
- insularly
- integrity
- intensely
- intensify
- intensity
- intercity
- interplay
- intestacy
- intricacy
- inutility
- invalidly
- inventory
- inversely
- inviolacy
- invisibly
- irascibly
- iridology
- irksomely
- irreality
- irritably
- itinerary
J 11
- janissary
- jarringly
- jealously
- jeeringly
- jewellery
- jocularly
- jocundity
- jointedly
- joviality
- joylessly
- judiciary
K 6
- karyogamy
- karyology
- kiddingly
- killingly
- knavishly
- knowingly
L 46
- laggardly
- lambently
- languidly
- lastingly
- laterally
- laudatory
- laughably
- lawlessly
- learnedly
- leeringly
- legendary
- legionary
- leisurely
- lengthily
- leniently
- leprously
- lethality
- leukotomy
- lexically
- liability
- liberally
- libratory
- liltingly
- limitedly
- limnology
- limpidity
- lineality
- linearity
- lingually
- liquidity
- lissomely
- literally
- lithology
- lithotomy
- lobectomy
- logically
- logomachy
- longevity
- longingly
- loquacity
- loutishly
- lubricity
- lumpishly
- lustfully
- lyrically
- lytically
M 75
- machinery
- magically
- makeready
- malignity
- mammalogy
- mandatary
- mandatory
- manically
- mannishly
- manometry
- maritally
- marquetry
- marshalcy
- martially
- massively
- maternity
- matrimony
- mawkishly
- maxillary
- maximally
- mayoralty
- meaningly
- mediately
- mediatory
- medically
- medullary
- meltingly
- memorably
- mendacity
- mendicity
- mentality
- mercenary
- mesentery
- metrology
- microcopy
- midweekly
- midwifery
- migratory
- militancy
- millenary
- millinery
- mincingly
- mindfully
- minimally
- misemploy
- miserably
- missilery
- mobocracy
- mockingly
- modernity
- modularly
- moilingly
- momentary
- monastery
- monocracy
- monophagy
- monophony
- monophyly
- monopsony
- monostely
- moonishly
- morbidity
- mordantly
- mortality
- mountainy
- multicity
- multicopy
- mundanely
- mundanity
- museology
- musically
- mutuality
- mycophagy
- mystagogy
- mythology
N 31
- naggingly
- naturally
- naughtily
- navigably
- necessary
- necessity
- necrology
- needfully
- nervosity
- nervously
- neurology
- neutrally
- niggardly
- nippingly
- nocuously
- noisomely
- nominally
- nonbinary
- noncounty
- nonenergy
- nonentity
- nonfamily
- nongreasy
- noninjury
- nonsteady
- normality
- northerly
- notoriety
- noxiously
- numbingly
- numerally
O 40
- objectify
- obliquely
- obliquity
- obscenely
- obscenity
- obscurely
- obscurity
- obstinacy
- obversely
- obviously
- occupancy
- odorously
- oedipally
- offertory
- officiary
- ohmically
- okeydokey
- olfactory
- oligarchy
- oligopoly
- ominously
- onerously
- ontically
- operantly
- operosely
- optically
- optimally
- optometry
- opulently
- orography
- orthodoxy
- osmometry
- osteology
- outdoorsy
- outwardly
- overfussy
- overhasty
- overstory
- overweary
- ovulatory
P 122
- pageantry
- painfully
- painterly
- palatably
- palatally
- palmately
- palmistry
- papillary
- parcenary
- parlously
- parquetry
- parsimony
- partially
- passersby
- passively
- passivity
- patchouly
- paternity
- pathology
- patiently
- patrimony
- peaceably
- peasantry
- peccantly
- pecuniary
- pederasty
- peevishly
- pellitory
- pensively
- pentarchy
- perfectly
- perfumery
- periphery
- perorally
- personify
- petrology
- pettishly
- petulancy
- phenocopy
- phenology
- philately
- philology
- phonology
- photocopy
- photoplay
- phrasally
- phycology
- phylogeny
- picaninny
- piggishly
- pinnately
- piquantly
- piscatory
- piteously
- pitifully
- pituitary
- pityingly
- pivotally
- placatory
- placidity
- planarity
- planetary
- plangency
- plasticky
- plausibly
- playfully
- plurality
- poignancy
- pointedly
- pokeberry
- polyandry
- polymathy
- polyphagy
- polyphony
- pomposity
- pompously
- popularly
- posterity
- pouringly
- pratingly
- preachify
- preachily
- precatory
- precisely
- precocity
- predacity
- predatory
- prefatory
- pregnancy
- premodify
- prenotify
- preoccupy
- presently
- primality
- primarily
- privately
- probatory
- profanely
- profanity
- profusely
- prolixity
- prolusory
- propriety
- provisory
- proximity
- prudently
- prudishly
- pruriency
- publicity
- puckishly
- puerilely
- puerility
- pugnacity
- pulmonary
- pungently
- pupillary
- purgatory
- purposely
- purringly
- putridity
- pyromancy
- pyrometry
Q 2
- quadruply
- quarterly
R 59
- rackingly
- radiantly
- radiately
- radically
- radiology
- raffishly
- rakehelly
- rampantly
- rancidity
- rantingly
- rascality
- raspberry
- raspingly
- raucously
- raunchily
- recertify
- recusancy
- redisplay
- reducibly
- refectory
- refortify
- refutably
- regularly
- relatedly
- relaxedly
- relevancy
- reliantly
- reliquary
- reliquefy
- removably
- renewably
- renitency
- repertory
- reputably
- reputedly
- requalify
- residency
- residuary
- restfully
- restively
- reticency
- retiredly
- reversely
- rhizotomy
- ringingly
- riotously
- roaringly
- roguishly
- roseately
- rostrally
- rotundity
- roundelay
- rousingly
- routinely
- ruffianly
- ruinously
- rusticity
- ruthfully
- ruttishly
S 142
- saleslady
- saliently
- saltatory
- salubrity
- sanctuary
- sapiently
- scatology
- schmaltzy
- scholarly
- schoolboy
- scrappily
- scruffily
- searingly
- seaworthy
- secondary
- secretary
- secretory
- sectility
- secularly
- sedentary
- seemingly
- seigneury
- seigniory
- selfishly
- semblably
- semideify
- seminally
- semiology
- seniority
- sensately
- sensually
- sequacity
- sergeancy
- sergeanty
- seriately
- seriously
- serjeanty
- serriedly
- servilely
- servility
- severally
- severalty
- sexlessly
- sexuality
- shadberry
- shadowily
- shallowly
- showbizzy
- shrubbery
- sickishly
- signatory
- similarly
- sincerely
- sincerity
- singsongy
- sinlessly
- sinuosity
- sinuously
- sketchily
- slaphappy
- slavishly
- slenderly
- slouchily
- sluiceway
- smilingly
- snowberry
- soapberry
- sociality
- sociology
- soldierly
- solemnify
- solemnity
- soliloquy
- solvently
- songfully
- sonically
- sophistry
- sottishly
- soulfully
- southerly
- sparingly
- spatially
- speakeasy
- specially
- specialty
- speechify
- spinosity
- splashily
- splintery
- spluttery
- sporogony
- sprightly
- springily
- squalidly
- squashily
- stability
- stagnancy
- standaway
- starchily
- statutory
- staunchly
- stenotypy
- sterilely
- sterility
- stiltedly
- stitchery
- stoically
- stolidity
- strangely
- strangury
- stridency
- studiedly
- stupidity
- stylishly
- suability
- suasively
- subacidly
- subagency
- subcolony
- subcounty
- subduedly
- subfamily
- sublimely
- sublimity
- sublunary
- subtilely
- summarily
- sumptuary
- superably
- supercity
- supremacy
- supremely
- surreally
- surrogacy
- suturally
- swinishly
- swordplay
- syllabary
- syllabify
- symbology
- sympetaly
- synchrony
T 69
- tactfully
- tactilely
- tactility
- tactually
- taphonomy
- tautology
- tautonymy
- taxidermy
- teachably
- teacherly
- tearfully
- teasingly
- tediously
- teemingly
- telemetry
- teleology
- teleonomy
- telepathy
- telephony
- telically
- tellingly
- temporary
- tensility
- tenuously
- termitary
- ternately
- territory
- testimony
- tetralogy
- tetrarchy
- textually
- theocracy
- theophany
- theosophy
- thermally
- thingummy
- thinkably
- thirstily
- thriftily
- throatily
- throughly
- throwaway
- timeously
- timocracy
- titularly
- toilfully
- tolerably
- tonically
- tonometry
- topically
- torpidity
- torridity
- toxophily
- tracheary
- tractably
- treachery
- tribology
- tributary
- trinketry
- triploidy
- trivially
- triweekly
- truepenny
- tunefully
- turbidity
- turgidity
- twinberry
- twitchily
- typically
U 31
- unanimity
- unawarely
- uncannily
- uncivilly
- unclarity
- uncleanly
- uncouthly
- underbody
- underplay
- unearthly
- unequally
- unfussily
- unhandily
- unhappily
- unhealthy
- uniformly
- unitarily
- unluckily
- unquietly
- unreality
- unshapely
- unsightly
- unsoundly
- unthrifty
- unusually
- unwomanly
- unworldly
- upcountry
- uprightly
- usability
- uselessly
V 35
- vacuously
- vaginally
- vagrantly
- vainglory
- valiantly
- variously
- varyingly
- vasectomy
- veeringly
- vegetably
- venerably
- ventrally
- verbosely
- verbosity
- verdantly
- veritably
- viability
- vibrantly
- vibratory
- viciously
- villagery
- villosity
- violently
- virginity
- virtually
- virulency
- viscidity
- viscosity
- viscounty
- viscously
- visionary
- voluntary
- vorticity
- vulgarity
- vulnerary
W 24
- waggishly
- wailfully
- wakefully
- warningly
- waspishly
- waywardly
- wealthily
- wearingly
- weatherly
- weightily
- welcomely
- whiningly
- willfully
- willingly
- winningly
- winsomely
- wishfully
- wistfully
- witlessly
- wittingly
- wolfberry
- wolfishly
- workmanly
- worriedly
X 1
- xerophily
Y 2
- yawningly
- yesterday
Z 3
- zealously
- zemindary
- zestfully
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How many nine-letter words end in Y?
There are 1,304 nine-letter words ending in Y, all listed on this page in alphabetical order.
What are the most common nine-letter words ending in Y?
Ranked by how often they appear in written English, the most common are: community, directory, currently, necessary, authority, secretary, emergency, generally. The full "most common" list is near the top of this page.
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