5-Letter Words Ending in LY
Adverbs love -LY, and Wordle loves adverbs. An LY ending with three mystery letters is a wide-open puzzle — unless you have the complete list in front of you.
This page is exactly that: every 5-letter word ending in LY, computed from our dictionary, with the precise count.
83exact word count
Smost common start (9 words)
Ymost common end (83 words)
1.1avg vowels per word
The full list — 83 words
Letter frequency by position
| Position 1 | D 9 S 9 B 7 |
|---|---|
| Position 2 | A 20 O 18 E 13 |
| Position 3 | L 34 T 6 D 6 |
| Position 4 | L 83 |
| Position 5 | Y 83 |
Computed from the 25 words on this page. Use the most frequent letters for high-information guesses.
- amply
- apply
- aptly
- badly
- bally
- belly
- bialy
- billy
- bully
- burly
- coaly
- colly
- coyly
- cully
- curly
- daily
- dally
- dilly
- dimly
- doily
- dolly
- drily
- dryly
- dully
- early
- fatly
- felly
- feyly
- filly
- fitly
- folly
- fully
- gaily
- girly
- godly
- golly
- gully
- haply
- hilly
- holly
- hotly
- icily
- imply
- jelly
- jolly
- jowly
- kelly
- laxly
- lolly
- lowly
- madly
- manly
- marly
- mealy
- molly
- nelly
- newly
- nobly
- oddly
- pally
- patly
- rally
- redly
- reply
- roily
- sadly
- sally
- scaly
- shyly
- silly
- slyly
- sonly
- sully
- surly
- tally
- telly
- truly
- wally
- wanly
- welly
- wetly
- willy
- wryly
How this list was made. Every word above was computed from the SCOWL
en_US-large word list (123,247 English words) using the exact filter for this page — no
hand-picking, no padding, no guessing. Counts are exact. The list includes some uncommon
and Scrabble-style words because the source dictionary is comprehensive; that is by design.