Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 5-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like LY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: amply, apply, aptly.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| amply | 5 | 2 | |
| apply | 5 | 2 | |
| aptly | 5 | 2 | |
| badly | 5 | 2 | |
| bally | 5 | 2 | |
| belly | 5 | 2 | |
| bialy | 5 | 2 | |
| bigly | 5 | 2 | |
| billy | 5 | 2 | |
| bully | 5 | 2 | |
| burly | 5 | 2 | |
| coaly | 5 | 2 | |
| colly | 5 | 2 | |
| cooly | 5 | 2 | |
| coyly | 5 | 2 | |
| cully | 5 | 2 | |
| curly | 5 | 2 | |
| daily | 5 | 2 | |
| dally | 5 | 2 | |
| delly | 5 | 2 | |
| dilly | 5 | 2 | |
| dimly | 5 | 2 | |
| doily | 5 | 2 | |
| dolly | 5 | 2 | |
| dooly | 5 | 2 | |
| doyly | 5 | 2 | |
| drily | 5 | 2 | |
| dryly | 5 | 2 | |
| dully | 5 | 2 | |
| early | 5 | 2 | |
| fatly | 5 | 2 | |
| felly | 5 | 2 | |
| ferly | 5 | 2 | |
| feyly | 5 | 2 | |
| filly | 5 | 2 | |
| fitly | 5 | 2 | |
| folly | 5 | 2 | |
| fully | 5 | 2 | |
| gaily | 5 | 2 | |
| gally | 5 | 2 | |
| gayly | 5 | 2 | |
| gilly | 5 | 2 | |
| girly | 5 | 2 | |
| godly | 5 | 2 | |
| golly | 5 | 2 | |
| gully | 5 | 2 | |
| haply | 5 | 2 | |
| hilly | 5 | 2 | |
| holly | 5 | 2 | |
| hooly | 5 | 2 | |
| hotly | 5 | 2 | |
| hurly | 5 | 2 | |
| icily | 5 | 3 | |
| imply | 5 | 2 | |
| jelly | 5 | 2 | |
| jolly | 5 | 2 | |
| jowly | 5 | 2 | |
| kelly | 5 | 2 | |
| laxly | 5 | 2 | |
| lolly | 5 | 2 | |
| lowly | 5 | 2 | |
| madly | 5 | 2 | |
| manly | 5 | 2 | |
| marly | 5 | 2 | |
| mealy | 5 | 2 | |
| molly | 5 | 2 | |
| muhly | 5 | 2 | |
| nelly | 5 | 2 | |
| newly | 5 | 2 | |
| nobly | 5 | 2 | |
| noily | 5 | 2 | |
| oddly | 5 | 2 | |
| pally | 5 | 2 | |
| patly | 5 | 2 | |
| rally | 5 | 2 | |
| rawly | 5 | 2 | |
| redly | 5 | 2 | |
| refly | 5 | 2 | |
| reply | 5 | 2 | |
| roily | 5 | 2 | |
| sadly | 5 | 2 | |
| sally | 5 | 2 | |
| scaly | 5 | 2 | |
| seely | 5 | 2 | |
| shaly | 5 | 2 | |
| shily | 5 | 2 | |
| shyly | 5 | 2 | |
| silly | 5 | 2 | |
| slily | 5 | 2 | |
| slyly | 5 | 2 | |
| sonly | 5 | 2 | |
| sully | 5 | 2 | |
| surly | 5 | 2 | |
| tally | 5 | 2 | |
| telly | 5 | 2 | |
| truly | 5 | 2 | |
| vealy | 5 | 2 | |
| wally | 5 | 2 | |
| wanly | 5 | 2 | |
| welly | 5 | 2 | |
| wetly | 5 | 2 | |
| willy | 5 | 2 | |
| wooly | 5 | 2 | |
| wryly | 5 | 2 |
What’s typical about LY-ending words?
LY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.