Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like CY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: abeyancy, accuracy, adamancy.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| abeyancy | 8 | 3 | |
| accuracy | 8 | 4 | |
| adamancy | 8 | 4 | |
| adequacy | 8 | 4 | |
| advocacy | 8 | 4 | |
| apostacy | 8 | 4 | |
| blatancy | 8 | 3 | |
| brevetcy | 8 | 3 | |
| buoyancy | 8 | 2 | |
| celibacy | 8 | 4 | |
| clemency | 8 | 3 | |
| coagency | 8 | 3 | |
| cornetcy | 8 | 3 | |
| currency | 8 | 3 | |
| delegacy | 8 | 4 | |
| delicacy | 8 | 4 | |
| deviancy | 8 | 3 | |
| dormancy | 8 | 3 | |
| efficacy | 8 | 4 | |
| elegancy | 8 | 4 | |
| eminency | 8 | 4 | |
| ensigncy | 8 | 3 | |
| exigency | 8 | 4 | |
| federacy | 8 | 4 | |
| feminacy | 8 | 4 | |
| fervency | 8 | 3 | |
| geomancy | 8 | 3 | |
| gramercy | 8 | 3 | |
| impolicy | 8 | 4 | |
| instancy | 8 | 3 | |
| intimacy | 8 | 4 | |
| isocracy | 8 | 4 | |
| lambency | 8 | 3 | |
| leniency | 8 | 3 | |
| literacy | 8 | 4 | |
| mordancy | 8 | 3 | |
| nascency | 8 | 3 | |
| normalcy | 8 | 3 | |
| numeracy | 8 | 4 | |
| obduracy | 8 | 4 | |
| opulency | 8 | 4 | |
| peccancy | 8 | 3 | |
| pendency | 8 | 3 | |
| pharmacy | 8 | 3 | |
| piquancy | 8 | 3 | |
| prophecy | 8 | 3 | |
| pungency | 8 | 3 | |
| radiancy | 8 | 3 | |
| rampancy | 8 | 3 | |
| regnancy | 8 | 3 | |
| saliency | 8 | 3 | |
| sapiency | 8 | 3 | |
| sequency | 8 | 3 | |
| solvency | 8 | 3 | |
| tangency | 8 | 3 | |
| tendency | 8 | 3 | |
| theodicy | 8 | 3 | |
| turgency | 8 | 3 | |
| ultimacy | 8 | 4 | |
| unbouncy | 8 | 3 | |
| unchancy | 8 | 3 | |
| vagrancy | 8 | 3 | |
| valiancy | 8 | 3 | |
| verdancy | 8 | 3 | |
| vibrancy | 8 | 3 |
What’s typical about CY-ending words?
CY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.