Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 5-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like NY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: agony, atony, barny.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| agony | 5 | 3 | |
| atony | 5 | 3 | |
| barny | 5 | 2 | |
| benny | 5 | 2 | |
| bonny | 5 | 2 | |
| briny | 5 | 2 | |
| bunny | 5 | 2 | |
| canny | 5 | 2 | |
| carny | 5 | 2 | |
| corny | 5 | 2 | |
| crony | 5 | 2 | |
| downy | 5 | 2 | |
| ebony | 5 | 3 | |
| fanny | 5 | 2 | |
| fawny | 5 | 2 | |
| fenny | 5 | 2 | |
| ferny | 5 | 2 | |
| finny | 5 | 2 | |
| funny | 5 | 2 | |
| ginny | 5 | 2 | |
| goony | 5 | 2 | |
| gunny | 5 | 2 | |
| hinny | 5 | 2 | |
| horny | 5 | 2 | |
| irony | 5 | 3 | |
| jenny | 5 | 2 | |
| lawny | 5 | 2 | |
| loony | 5 | 2 | |
| meany | 5 | 2 | |
| meiny | 5 | 2 | |
| minny | 5 | 2 | |
| moony | 5 | 2 | |
| nanny | 5 | 2 | |
| ninny | 5 | 2 | |
| penny | 5 | 2 | |
| peony | 5 | 2 | |
| phony | 5 | 2 | |
| pinny | 5 | 2 | |
| porny | 5 | 2 | |
| punny | 5 | 2 | |
| rainy | 5 | 2 | |
| runny | 5 | 2 | |
| shiny | 5 | 2 | |
| sonny | 5 | 2 | |
| spiny | 5 | 2 | |
| stony | 5 | 2 | |
| sunny | 5 | 2 | |
| tawny | 5 | 2 | |
| teeny | 5 | 2 | |
| tinny | 5 | 2 | |
| towny | 5 | 2 | |
| tunny | 5 | 2 | |
| twiny | 5 | 2 | |
| veiny | 5 | 2 | |
| weeny | 5 | 2 | |
| wenny | 5 | 2 | |
| whiny | 5 | 2 |
What’s typical about NY-ending words?
NY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.