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5-Letter Words Ending in LY

104 five-letter words end in LY; 40 of them are common words, shown in bold. Common words are where Wordle answers come from.

Best Wordle guesses

Ranked by how many green and yellow tiles each word turns up, on average, against the common words Wordle answers come from.

#WordGreenYellow
1early0.441.25
2reply0.381.04
3daily0.490.82
4sadly0.530.75
5telly0.420.85
6rally0.430.83
7aptly0.330.91
8newly0.330.91

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  • earlycommon
  • dailycommon
  • fullycommon
  • trulycommon
  • applycommon
  • replycommon
  • badlycommon
  • kellycommon
  • newlycommon
  • sillycommon
  • rallycommon
  • billycommon
  • sadlycommon
  • bellycommon
  • sallycommon
  • hollycommon
  • bullycommon
  • mollycommon
  • implycommon
  • jellycommon
  • manlycommon
  • tallycommon
  • willycommon
  • curlycommon
  • jollycommon
  • oddlycommon
  • dollycommon
  • wallycommon
  • follycommon
  • lowlycommon
  • godlycommon
  • girlycommon
  • tellycommon
  • hillycommon
  • madlycommon
  • nellycommon
  • fillycommon
  • aptlycommon
  • gullycommon
  • sullycommon
  • hotly
  • surly
  • burly
  • lolly
  • scaly
  • dimly
  • dally
  • bally
  • golly
  • dilly
  • amply
  • gilly
  • wooly
  • slyly
  • pally
  • shyly
  • wryly
  • mealy
  • nobly
  • bigly

All 104 five-letter words

Starting with A 3

amply apply aptly

Starting with B 8

badly bally belly bialy bigly billy bully burly

Starting with C 6

coaly colly cooly coyly cully curly

Starting with D 12

daily dally delly dilly dimly doily dolly dooly doyly drily dryly dully

Starting with E 1

early

Starting with F 8

fatly felly ferly feyly filly fitly folly fully

Starting with G 8

gaily gally gayly gilly girly godly golly gully

Starting with H 6

haply hilly holly hooly hotly hurly

Starting with I 2

icily imply

Starting with J 3

jelly jolly jowly

Starting with K 1

kelly

Starting with L 3

laxly lolly lowly

Starting with M 6

madly manly marly mealy molly muhly

Starting with N 4

nelly newly nobly noily

Starting with O 1

oddly

Starting with P 2

pally patly

Starting with R 6

rally rawly redly refly reply roily

Starting with S 13

sadly sally scaly seely shaly shily shyly silly slily slyly sonly sully surly

Starting with T 3

tally telly truly

Starting with V 1

vealy

Starting with W 7

wally wanly welly wetly willy wooly wryly

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Questions people ask

How many five-letter words end in LY?

Our list has 104. 40 of them are common everyday words; the rest are rarer words you are more likely to meet in Scrabble or a crossword than in conversation. The list is a public-domain English word list, sorted by how often each word appears in everyday writing.

What are the most common five-letter words that end in LY?

EARLY, DAILY, FULLY, TRULY, APPLY — in that order, by how often they appear in everyday English.

What is the best Wordle guess that ends in LY?

EARLY. Against the common five-letter words Wordle draws its answers from, it turns up 0.44 green and 1.25 yellow tiles on average — more than any other word on this list. The method is the same as on our Best Wordle Starting Words page.