Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like RLY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: badgerly, bankerly, beggarly.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| badgerly | 8 | 3 | |
| bankerly | 8 | 3 | |
| beggarly | 8 | 3 | |
| bihourly | 8 | 3 | |
| bitterly | 8 | 3 | |
| biyearly | 8 | 2 | |
| cleverly | 8 | 3 | |
| dapperly | 8 | 3 | |
| easterly | 8 | 3 | |
| fatherly | 8 | 3 | |
| formerly | 8 | 3 | |
| gingerly | 8 | 3 | |
| latterly | 8 | 3 | |
| lawyerly | 8 | 3 | |
| limberly | 8 | 3 | |
| linearly | 8 | 3 | |
| lubberly | 8 | 3 | |
| mannerly | 8 | 3 | |
| martyrly | 8 | 3 | |
| masterly | 8 | 3 | |
| meagerly | 8 | 3 | |
| motherly | 8 | 3 | |
| ocularly | 8 | 4 | |
| properly | 8 | 3 | |
| readerly | 8 | 3 | |
| sailorly | 8 | 3 | |
| sickerly | 8 | 3 | |
| silverly | 8 | 3 | |
| sisterly | 8 | 3 | |
| somberly | 8 | 3 | |
| summerly | 8 | 3 | |
| tenderly | 8 | 3 | |
| unfairly | 8 | 3 | |
| uvularly | 8 | 4 | |
| vulgarly | 8 | 3 | |
| westerly | 8 | 3 | |
| winterly | 8 | 3 | |
| writerly | 8 | 3 |
What’s typical about RLY-ending words?
RLY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.