6 Letter Words Ending in Y

A green Y in the sixth tile fixes the ending, but the fifth tile still divides the list into very different groups. The current data has 113 six-letter words ending in Y, led by 37 -LY entries, 13 -TY entries, and 12 -RY entries. Use the previous-letter control first when that position is known.

Quick choices from the Y list

No-repeat examples in the site’s answer pool include agency, beauty, comply, crafty, donkey, easily, family, guilty, midway, mighty, modify, nearby, safety, steady, stormy, theory, verify, and widely. If the board permits a duplicate, the same pool also contains cherry, deadly, deeply, energy, freely, greedy, likely, pretty, quarry, really, supply, treaty, and valley.

These are candidates to compare with the board or clue. Inclusion in the site’s answer pool does not predict an official answer.

The previous letter does most of the narrowing

The three largest endings account for 62 of the 113 records:

The next largest group is -EY with nine entries, followed by -HY and -SY with five each. A green L before Y therefore leaves a much broader set than a green H or S. The clue or other tile feedback must do more work inside the -LY branch.

Do not infer meaning from the last two letters alone. Family, comply, and supply end in -LY but do not behave like adverbs; beauty, entity, and safety share -TY while answering different kinds of clues. The grouped list supplies structure, while the clue supplies meaning.

Vowels and repeats use a Y-specific definition

The JSON counts A, E, I, O, and U as vowels. It does not add Y to that field, even when Y carries a vowel sound. Under that method, 40 entries have one vowel, 68 have two, and five have three. The five three-vowel entries are airily, airway, augury, beauty, and easily.

The repeat split is close: 65 words use six different letters and 48 repeat a character. Compare no-repeat choices such as agency, barley, beauty, crafty, donkey, mighty, poetry, safety, and theory with repeated forms such as anyway, cherry, deadly, energy, freely, pretty, quarry, and valley. Choose the repeat setting from feedback rather than treating one group as universally better.

Example: final LY with E and R ruled out

Suppose Y is green at the end, L is green before it, E and R are gray, and no duplicate has appeared. Choose previous letter L, enter ER under Excludes, and select no repeats. The current file leaves:

bodily, comply, costly, family, mostly

Those five share the same edge pattern but have different meanings. A crossword definition or another positioned tile is needed to finish the choice. The coverage score can compare letter testing; it does not assign answer odds.

Splitting the 37-word -LY branch

A green L and Y still leave 37 candidates, a wider field than some full letter pages on this site. Every remaining bit of information sits in the first four slots. Recomputed from the current file:

Slot 2 holds A, E, I, O, or U in 30 of the 37 words, so a probe with a second-slot vowel tests the densest position first. Counting whole words, E appears in the first four slots of 18 entries, A in 15, and I and R in 12 each.

Feedback simulation against all 37 words makes this concrete. Easily and really are the strongest single probes in the branch: each sorts the set into 17 distinct feedback patterns, and the worst pattern leaves only six candidates. After easily, that worst case is deeply, deftly, freely, lonely, merely, and weekly — and playing deeply next separates all six. After really, a well-chosen second word from this list distinguishes every remaining case. The contrast is supply: a repeated P plus the already-known L and Y produce only seven patterns, and the largest leaves 26 of the 37 words standing.

All 113 words by the letter before Y

• -AY (3): airway, anyway, midway.
• -BY (1): nearby.
• -CY (1): agency.
• -DY (4): comedy, greedy, nobody, steady.
• -EY (9): barley, donkey, galley, lackey, medley, monkey, storey, survey, valley.
• -FY (4): modify, notify, verify, vilify.
• -GY (1): energy.
• -HY (5): filthy, fleshy, mouthy, toothy, worthy.
• -KY (4): chalky, cranky, creaky, quirky.
• -LY (37): agedly, airily, bodily, boldly, calmly, comply, costly, deadly, deeply, deftly, easily, evenly, fairly, family, freely, gladly, gnarly, grimly, hardly, highly, lazily, likely, lively, lonely, merely, mostly, nicely, partly, portly, really, safely, slowly, supply, surely, weekly, widely, yearly.
• -MY (2): gloomy, stormy.
• -NY (2): colony, mutiny.
• -OY (3): convoy, cowboy, employ.
• -PY (4): canopy, crispy, floppy, grumpy.
• -RY (12): artery, augury, cherry, dreary, pastry, penury, poetry, quarry, sentry, theory, vagary, vapory.
• -SY (5): clumsy, flimsy, glassy, glossy, grassy.
• -TY (13): beauty, bounty, crafty, entity, frosty, guilty, mighty, ninety, plenty, pretty, safety, sporty, treaty.
• -XY (1): galaxy.
• -ZY (2): frenzy, glitzy.

Suffix knowledge helps, but only with the real suffixes

The -LY branch looks like an adverb list, and much of it is: boldly, calmly, and deeply attach the adverb-forming -ly to an adjective. The same spelling also builds adjectives, though. Lonely, lively, and likely are adjectives, and weekly and yearly serve as both. Three entries carry no suffix at all: family descends from Latin familia, and comply and supply are verbs whose final letters were never the English -ly.

The -TY branch divides the same way. Safety and entity end in the noun-forming -ty, which traces back to Latin -tas; beauty and plenty arrived from French with the ending already in place. But crafty, frosty, guilty, mighty, and sporty add the adjective suffix -y to craft, frost, guilt, might, and sport — the T belongs to the root, not the ending. In the -RY group, poetry shows the noun-forming -ry, while cherry and artery merely end in those letters.

The distinction pays off differently in each game. A crossword clue announces its part of speech: a verb clue points at comply, supply, modify, notify, verify, employ, and survey and away from the adverbs. Wordle feedback carries no grammar — a solver who reads every -LY word as an adverb will discard family, comply, and supply exactly when they matter.

Match the tool to the clue

For Wordle-style feedback, use this page after Y is confirmed in position six. Enter each yellow letter in the Yellow field with every position where it failed, put truly gray letters in Excludes, and select the fifth character if it is green. If Y is yellow rather than green, do not assume it belongs at the end.

For crosswords, the word list can enforce length and known letters, but the definition remains decisive. A clue for agency will not be solved by the same reasoning as one for yearly, even though both end in Y.

When a yellow Y is worth a checking guess

A green Y in slot six settles the ending. A yellow Y settles much less. In the site’s 682-word answer pool, 78 words contain a Y: 58 place it in the sixth slot, and the other 20 hold it earlier, most often in slot 3 (crying, flying, paying, saying). The final slot is the most likely home for a yellow Y, but roughly a quarter of the pool’s Y words disagree.

Spending a turn mainly to pin the Y is justified only when both readings still hold sizable candidate sets — that is when the position genuinely divides the field. If the interior-Y reading has shrunk to two or three live words, guessing them directly costs the same turns and can win outright.

Related word tools

Compare this page with the 241-record E-ending finder, the only other published final-letter list, or return to the ending-letter hub when a different sixth tile is confirmed. If the first tile is the green one, switch to the starting-letter hub. Test a shortlisted candidate against live feedback in Unlimited Mode, and read how the 113-record file, the answer-pool flag, and the coverage score are built.

Data review: August 23, 2026. The 37/13/12 ending split, the vowel and repeat totals, the answer-pool Y positions, and the -LY probe simulation on this page were recomputed from the published data files on that date. Read the source, license, formulas, and correction process.