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5-Letter Words Ending in LY

Adverbs love -LY, and Wordle loves adverbs. An LY ending with three mystery letters is a wide-open puzzle — unless you have the complete list in front of you.

This page is exactly that: every 5-letter word ending in LY, computed from our dictionary, with the precise count.

61exact word count
Dmost common start (7 words)
Ymost common end (61 words)
1.2avg vowels per word

The full list — 61 words

apply belly bialy billy bully burly carly coaly colly cully curly daily dally dilly doily dolly drily dully early emily felly filly fitly folly gaily girly godly golly gully hilly holly icily imply italy jelly jolly jowly kelly lilly lolly lowly lully manly mealy molly nelly newly polly rally roily sally scaly silly sully surly tally telly truly wally welly willy
How this list was made. Every word above was computed from the SCOWL en_US-large word list (73,959 English words) using the exact filter for this page — no hand-picking, no padding, no guessing. Counts are exact. The list includes some uncommon and Scrabble-style words because the source dictionary is comprehensive; that is by design.