Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 10-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like NCY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: absorbancy, absorbency, advertency.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| absorbancy | 10 | 4 | |
| absorbency | 10 | 4 | |
| advertency | 10 | 4 | |
| ascendancy | 10 | 4 | |
| ascendency | 10 | 4 | |
| benignancy | 10 | 4 | |
| brilliancy | 10 | 3 | |
| chaplaincy | 10 | 3 | |
| chatoyancy | 10 | 3 | |
| chiromancy | 10 | 4 | |
| competency | 10 | 4 | |
| compliancy | 10 | 3 | |
| congruency | 10 | 3 | |
| consonancy | 10 | 4 | |
| corpulency | 10 | 4 | |
| deficiency | 10 | 4 | |
| dependency | 10 | 4 | |
| detergency | 10 | 4 | |
| divergency | 10 | 4 | |
| ebulliency | 10 | 4 | |
| efficiency | 10 | 4 | |
| excellency | 10 | 4 | |
| expectancy | 10 | 4 | |
| expediency | 10 | 4 | |
| flatulency | 10 | 4 | |
| hydromancy | 10 | 4 | |
| importancy | 10 | 4 | |
| incessancy | 10 | 4 | |
| incipiency | 10 | 4 | |
| inclemency | 10 | 4 | |
| incumbency | 10 | 4 | |
| insistency | 10 | 4 | |
| insolvency | 10 | 4 | |
| insurgency | 10 | 4 | |
| itinerancy | 10 | 5 | |
| malignancy | 10 | 4 | |
| mendicancy | 10 | 4 | |
| necromancy | 10 | 4 | |
| nonfluency | 10 | 3 | |
| permanency | 10 | 4 | |
| pertinency | 10 | 4 | |
| postulancy | 10 | 4 | |
| precedency | 10 | 4 | |
| prepotency | 10 | 4 | |
| presidency | 10 | 4 | |
| recumbency | 10 | 4 | |
| redundancy | 10 | 4 | |
| reluctancy | 10 | 4 | |
| repellency | 10 | 4 | |
| repugnancy | 10 | 4 | |
| resiliency | 10 | 4 | |
| stringency | 10 | 3 | |
| subjacency | 10 | 4 | |
| subpotency | 10 | 4 | |
| subtenancy | 10 | 4 | |
| sycophancy | 10 | 4 | |
| transiency | 10 | 3 | |
| trenchancy | 10 | 3 | |
| truculency | 10 | 4 | |
| turbulency | 10 | 4 |
What’s typical about NCY-ending words?
NCY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.