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.
| # | Word | Green | Yellow |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | early | 0.44 | 1.25 |
| 2 | reply | 0.38 | 1.04 |
| 3 | daily | 0.49 | 0.82 |
| 4 | sadly | 0.53 | 0.75 |
| 5 | telly | 0.42 | 0.85 |
| 6 | rally | 0.43 | 0.83 |
| 7 | aptly | 0.33 | 0.91 |
| 8 | newly | 0.33 | 0.91 |
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104 words ending in LY
- 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.