Words Ending In CY
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377 of the 172,434 ENABLE words shown on this site are words that end in CY (about 0.22%). They run from ICY at the short end to COUNTERCONSPIRACY and COUNTERINSURGENCY at the long end. The highest base score belongs to GYROFREQUENCY (34 points), using commonly used tile values. 76 of them use no letter twice, which matters in games where every tile is separate. Different games use different dictionaries, so check your game's rules before relying on a word.
At a glance
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Words in this list | 377 |
| Share of the ENABLE list shown on this site | 0.22% |
| Longest | COUNTERCONSPIRACY and COUNTERINSURGENCY (17 letters) |
| Shortest | ICY (3 letters) |
| Highest base score (common values) | GYROFREQUENCY, 34 |
| No repeated letters | 76 |
Most common letter before CY
| Letter | Words |
|---|---|
| N | 254 |
| A | 93 |
| E | 7 |
| I | 7 |
| T | 7 |
Useful observations
- None of these words is a palindrome (the same backward and forward).
- 35 leave another word when the final
CYis taken off, for exampleABBACY,ABBOTCY,BANKRUPTCY,BARONETCYandBREVETCY→ABBA,ABBOT,BANKRUPT,BARONETandBREVET. - The most common number of vowels (A, E, I, O, U) is 3, found in 171 of these words.
- The average length is 9.4 letters.
- Before CY, the letter
Nappears most often (254 words).
All -CY words
3 letters 1
icy
4 letters 2
lacy racy
5 letters 10
fancy farcy juicy mercy mincy nancy pricy saucy spacy zincy
6 letters 16
abbacy agency bouncy chancy curacy dioecy fleecy idiocy jouncy legacy lunacy papacy piracy policy sluicy sprucy
7 letters 33
abbotcy ardency cadency cogency decency errancy eustacy fallacy flouncy fluency infancy latency lucency mediacy monoecy patency pliancy potency prelacy primacy privacy pudency recency regency secrecy tenancy testacy truancy unfancy unsoncy urgency vacancy valency
8 letters 65
abeyancy accuracy adamancy adequacy advocacy apostacy blatancy brevetcy buoyancy celibacy clemency coagency cornetcy currency delegacy delicacy deviancy dormancy efficacy elegancy eminency ensigncy exigency federacy feminacy fervency geomancy gramercy impolicy instancy intimacy isocracy lambency leniency literacy mordancy nascency normalcy numeracy obduracy opulency peccancy pendency pharmacy piquancy prophecy pungency radiancy rampancy regnancy saliency sapiency sequency solvency tangency tendency theodicy turgency ultimacy unbouncy unchancy vagrancy valiancy verdancy vibrancy
9 letters 62
aberrancy adjacency adjutancy affluency aliteracy appetency autocracy baronetcy candidacy captaincy coherency colonelcy constancy contumacy covalency decadency democracy dilatancy diplomacy emergency exultancy flagrancy flippancy fragrancy frequency hesitancy immanency immediacy imminency impotency indecency inerrancy innocency intestacy intricacy inviolacy marshalcy militancy mobocracy monocracy obstinacy occupancy petulancy plangency poignancy pregnancy pruriency pyromancy recusancy relevancy renitency residency reticency sergeancy stagnancy stridency subagency supremacy surrogacy theocracy timocracy virulency
10 letters 85
absorbancy absorbency advertency antipiracy articulacy ascendancy ascendency bankruptcy benignancy brilliancy chaplaincy chatoyancy chiromancy competency compliancy complicacy congruency consonancy conspiracy corpulency deficiency degeneracy dependency detergency divergency ebulliency effeminacy efficiency episcopacy excellency expectancy expediency flatulency hydromancy illiteracy immaculacy immoderacy importancy inaccuracy inadequacy incessancy incipiency inclemency incumbency indelicacy inefficacy innumeracy insistency insolvency insurgency inveteracy itinerancy legitimacy magistracy malignancy mendicancy necromancy nonfluency ochlocracy permanency pertinency plutocracy postulancy precedency prepotency presidency profligacy recumbency redundancy regeneracy reluctancy repellency repugnancy resiliency slavocracy stringency subjacency subpotency subtenancy sycophancy transiency trenchancy truculency turbulency viscountcy
11 letters 48
accountancy antisecrecy aristocracy astringency attractancy bureaucracy chieftaincy complacency concurrency confederacy conservancy consistency consultancy contingency conveniency convergency conversancy delinquency despondency determinacy discordancy discrepancy equivalency excrescency flamboyancy gynecocracy inconstancy infrequency inhabitancy interagency irrelevancy lieutenancy meritocracy multiagency oneiromancy paramountcy persistency plantocracy proficiency prolificacy rhabdomancy stratocracy subliteracy sufficiency superagency technocracy totipotency vicegerency
12 letters 31
belligerency codependency constituency extravagancy gerontocracy illegitimacy impermanency impertinency inadvertency inarticulacy incompetency incontinency independency indifferency inefficiency inexpediency intermediacy noncandidacy nonemergency nonresidency pantisocracy precipitancy predominancy preoccupancy radiolucency resplendency significancy subserviency supersecrecy translucency transparency
13 letters 12
gyrofrequency inconsistency inconveniency indeterminacy insufficiency intermittency multicurrency postemergency preponderancy recalcitrancy thalassocracy transcendency
14 letters 3
correspondency insignificancy multifrequency
15 letters 6
countertendency interdependency nonbelligerency pseudopregnancy superefficiency superintendency
16 letters 1
immunodeficiency
17 letters 2
counterconspiracy counterinsurgency
Using these words
To find words ending in CY from your own letters, use the Word Unscrambler with CY in Ends with, or try a pattern such as ???CY in the Crossword Solver. Words come from the open ENABLE word list. Different games use different dictionaries, so always check the rules of your game.