Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like NCY 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 | |
| appetency | 9 | 4 | |
| captaincy | 9 | 3 | |
| coherency | 9 | 4 | |
| constancy | 9 | 3 | |
| covalency | 9 | 4 | |
| decadency | 9 | 4 | |
| dilatancy | 9 | 4 | |
| emergency | 9 | 4 | |
| exultancy | 9 | 4 | |
| flagrancy | 9 | 3 | |
| flippancy | 9 | 3 | |
| fragrancy | 9 | 3 | |
| frequency | 9 | 3 | |
| hesitancy | 9 | 4 | |
| immanency | 9 | 4 | |
| imminency | 9 | 4 | |
| impotency | 9 | 4 | |
| indecency | 9 | 4 | |
| inerrancy | 9 | 4 | |
| innocency | 9 | 4 | |
| militancy | 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 | |
| virulency | 9 | 4 |
What’s typical about NCY-ending words?
NCY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.