Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like CY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: aberrancy, adjacency, adjutancy.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| aberrancy | 9 | 4 | |
| adjacency | 9 | 4 | |
| adjutancy | 9 | 4 | |
| affluency | 9 | 3 | |
| aliteracy | 9 | 5 | |
| appetency | 9 | 4 | |
| autocracy | 9 | 4 | |
| baronetcy | 9 | 4 | |
| candidacy | 9 | 4 | |
| captaincy | 9 | 3 | |
| coherency | 9 | 4 | |
| colonelcy | 9 | 4 | |
| constancy | 9 | 3 | |
| contumacy | 9 | 4 | |
| covalency | 9 | 4 | |
| decadency | 9 | 4 | |
| democracy | 9 | 4 | |
| dilatancy | 9 | 4 | |
| diplomacy | 9 | 4 | |
| emergency | 9 | 4 | |
| exultancy | 9 | 4 | |
| flagrancy | 9 | 3 | |
| flippancy | 9 | 3 | |
| fragrancy | 9 | 3 | |
| frequency | 9 | 3 | |
| gynocracy | 9 | 4 | |
| hesitancy | 9 | 4 | |
| immanency | 9 | 4 | |
| immediacy | 9 | 4 | |
| imminency | 9 | 4 | |
| impotency | 9 | 4 | |
| indecency | 9 | 4 | |
| inerrancy | 9 | 4 | |
| innocency | 9 | 4 | |
| intestacy | 9 | 4 | |
| intricacy | 9 | 4 | |
| inviolacy | 9 | 4 | |
| marshalcy | 9 | 3 | |
| militancy | 9 | 4 | |
| mobocracy | 9 | 4 | |
| monocracy | 9 | 4 | |
| obstinacy | 9 | 4 | |
| occupancy | 9 | 4 | |
| petulancy | 9 | 4 | |
| plangency | 9 | 3 | |
| poignancy | 9 | 3 | |
| pregnancy | 9 | 3 | |
| pruriency | 9 | 3 | |
| pyromancy | 9 | 4 | |
| recusancy | 9 | 4 | |
| relevancy | 9 | 4 | |
| renitency | 9 | 4 | |
| residency | 9 | 4 | |
| reticency | 9 | 4 | |
| sergeancy | 9 | 3 | |
| stagnancy | 9 | 3 | |
| stridency | 9 | 3 | |
| subagency | 9 | 4 | |
| supremacy | 9 | 4 | |
| surrogacy | 9 | 4 | |
| theocracy | 9 | 3 | |
| timocracy | 9 | 4 | |
| virulency | 9 | 4 |
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.