Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like ELY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: actively, affinely, alpinely.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| actively | 8 | 4 | |
| affinely | 8 | 4 | |
| alpinely | 8 | 4 | |
| astutely | 8 | 4 | |
| aversely | 8 | 4 | |
| binately | 8 | 4 | |
| blithely | 8 | 3 | |
| bovinely | 8 | 4 | |
| chastely | 8 | 3 | |
| choicely | 8 | 3 | |
| coarsely | 8 | 3 | |
| crousely | 8 | 3 | |
| cymosely | 8 | 4 | |
| datively | 8 | 4 | |
| demurely | 8 | 4 | |
| divinely | 8 | 4 | |
| docilely | 8 | 4 | |
| effetely | 8 | 4 | |
| entirely | 8 | 4 | |
| equinely | 8 | 4 | |
| facetely | 8 | 4 | |
| facilely | 8 | 4 | |
| felinely | 8 | 4 | |
| fiercely | 8 | 3 | |
| finitely | 8 | 4 | |
| futilely | 8 | 4 | |
| gauchely | 8 | 3 | |
| hoarsely | 8 | 3 | |
| humanely | 8 | 4 | |
| impurely | 8 | 4 | |
| innately | 8 | 4 | |
| insanely | 8 | 4 | |
| jejunely | 8 | 4 | |
| jocosely | 8 | 4 | |
| lobately | 8 | 4 | |
| lunately | 8 | 4 | |
| lyrately | 8 | 4 | |
| maturely | 8 | 4 | |
| meagrely | 8 | 3 | |
| minutely | 8 | 4 | |
| morosely | 8 | 4 | |
| natively | 8 | 4 | |
| oblately | 8 | 4 | |
| obtusely | 8 | 4 | |
| opaquely | 8 | 4 | |
| ornately | 8 | 4 | |
| otiosely | 8 | 4 | |
| pedately | 8 | 4 | |
| politely | 8 | 4 | |
| princely | 8 | 3 | |
| ramosely | 8 | 4 | |
| remotely | 8 | 4 | |
| rimosely | 8 | 4 | |
| rugosely | 8 | 4 | |
| savagely | 8 | 4 | |
| scarcely | 8 | 3 | |
| securely | 8 | 4 | |
| sedately | 8 | 4 | |
| senilely | 8 | 4 | |
| serenely | 8 | 4 | |
| severely | 8 | 4 | |
| sombrely | 8 | 3 | |
| sparsely | 8 | 3 | |
| sprucely | 8 | 3 | |
| squarely | 8 | 3 | |
| supinely | 8 | 4 | |
| supplely | 8 | 3 | |
| sveltely | 8 | 3 | |
| uncomely | 8 | 4 | |
| uniquely | 8 | 4 | |
| unlikely | 8 | 4 | |
| unlively | 8 | 4 | |
| unlovely | 8 | 4 | |
| unripely | 8 | 4 | |
| unsafely | 8 | 4 | |
| unsurely | 8 | 4 | |
| untimely | 8 | 4 | |
| unwifely | 8 | 4 | |
| unwisely | 8 | 4 | |
| urbanely | 8 | 4 | |
| virilely | 8 | 4 | |
| votively | 8 | 4 |
What’s typical about ELY-ending words?
ELY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.