Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like NLY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: barrenly, benignly, brazenly.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| barrenly | 8 | 3 | |
| benignly | 8 | 3 | |
| brazenly | 8 | 3 | |
| brokenly | 8 | 3 | |
| commonly | 8 | 3 | |
| cousinly | 8 | 3 | |
| cravenly | 8 | 3 | |
| frozenly | 8 | 3 | |
| goldenly | 8 | 3 | |
| heavenly | 8 | 3 | |
| hiddenly | 8 | 3 | |
| indignly | 8 | 3 | |
| leadenly | 8 | 3 | |
| maidenly | 8 | 3 | |
| malignly | 8 | 3 | |
| matronly | 8 | 3 | |
| medianly | 8 | 3 | |
| modernly | 8 | 3 | |
| moltenly | 8 | 3 | |
| patronly | 8 | 3 | |
| provenly | 8 | 3 | |
| rottenly | 8 | 3 | |
| seamanly | 8 | 3 | |
| slovenly | 8 | 3 | |
| soddenly | 8 | 3 | |
| solemnly | 8 | 3 | |
| sovranly | 8 | 3 | |
| suddenly | 8 | 3 | |
| sullenly | 8 | 3 | |
| thrawnly | 8 | 2 | |
| unevenly | 8 | 4 | |
| ungainly | 8 | 3 | |
| wantonly | 8 | 3 | |
| woodenly | 8 | 3 | |
| yeomanly | 8 | 3 |
What’s typical about NLY-ending words?
NLY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.