Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like TLY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: abjectly, abruptly, absently.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| abjectly | 8 | 3 | |
| abruptly | 8 | 3 | |
| absently | 8 | 3 | |
| adroitly | 8 | 3 | |
| ardently | 8 | 3 | |
| arrantly | 8 | 3 | |
| augustly | 8 | 3 | |
| brightly | 8 | 2 | |
| cogently | 8 | 3 | |
| covertly | 8 | 3 | |
| decently | 8 | 3 | |
| devoutly | 8 | 3 | |
| directly | 8 | 3 | |
| dulcetly | 8 | 3 | |
| errantly | 8 | 3 | |
| expertly | 8 | 3 | |
| fluently | 8 | 2 | |
| honestly | 8 | 3 | |
| intently | 8 | 3 | |
| knightly | 8 | 2 | |
| latently | 8 | 3 | |
| lucently | 8 | 3 | |
| modestly | 8 | 3 | |
| momently | 8 | 3 | |
| natantly | 8 | 3 | |
| occultly | 8 | 3 | |
| patently | 8 | 3 | |
| pliantly | 8 | 2 | |
| potently | 8 | 3 | |
| priestly | 8 | 2 | |
| promptly | 8 | 2 | |
| quaintly | 8 | 2 | |
| recently | 8 | 3 | |
| robustly | 8 | 3 | |
| secantly | 8 | 3 | |
| secretly | 8 | 3 | |
| selectly | 8 | 3 | |
| silently | 8 | 3 | |
| slightly | 8 | 2 | |
| straitly | 8 | 2 | |
| strictly | 8 | 2 | |
| thwartly | 8 | 2 | |
| ungently | 8 | 3 | |
| unjustly | 8 | 3 | |
| unmeetly | 8 | 3 | |
| unsubtly | 8 | 3 | |
| urgently | 8 | 3 | |
| vacantly | 8 | 3 |
What’s typical about TLY-ending words?
TLY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.