Words Ending In SY

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Counting only the ENABLE word list, 160 entries are words that end in SY. That is about 0.093% of the list. The longest is PHARMACOGNOSY; the shortest are BUSY, COSY and EASY. By common tile values the top scorer is NYMPHOLEPSY (26 points); board bonuses aren't counted. 71 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	160
Share of the ENABLE list shown on this site	0.093%
Longest	`PHARMACOGNOSY` (13 letters)
Shortest	`BUSY`, `COSY` and `EASY` and 3 more (4 letters)
Highest base score (common values)	`NYMPHOLEPSY`, 26
No repeated letters	71

Most common letter before SY

Letter	Words
S	34
A	19
P	19
O	15
T	13

What stands out

None of these words is a palindrome (the same backward and forward).
60 leave another word when the final SY is taken off, for example ANTSY, ARTSY, BACKWOODSY, BALLSY and BASSY → ANT, ART, BACKWOOD, BALL and BAS.
The most common number of vowels (A, E, I, O, U) is 1, found in 76 of these words.
The average length is 6.5 letters.
Before SY, the letter S appears most often (34 words).

All -SY words

4 letters 6

busy cosy easy nosy posy rosy

5 letters 51

antsy artsy bassy bitsy bossy bousy brosy cissy daisy ditsy donsy fubsy fussy gassy gawsy gipsy goosy gorsy gussy gutsy gypsy hissy horsy hussy kissy lossy lousy massy messy missy mossy mousy mussy newsy noisy nutsy palsy pansy patsy poesy popsy potsy prosy pursy sassy sissy sonsy sudsy tansy tipsy wussy

6 letters 42

argosy ballsy biopsy blousy blowsy bluesy brassy cheesy choosy classy clumsy creasy curtsy cutesy dressy dropsy drossy drowsy flimsy floosy flossy folksy footsy frowsy glassy glossy grassy greasy heresy limpsy prissy queasy quinsy slimsy teensy tootsy tressy unbusy uneasy weensy whimsy woodsy

7 letters 21

autopsy circusy citrusy clerisy curtesy ecstasy embassy eupepsy fantasy geodesy leprosy morassy phrensy slimpsy startsy statusy teentsy tricksy unfussy unnoisy unsonsy

8 letters 21

actressy apostasy athanasy courtesy cramoisy dyspepsy epilepsy epistasy euphrasy geognosy hydropsy isostasy jealousy kielbasy kolkhosy necropsy overbusy overeasy phantasy pleurisy prophesy

9 letters 7

catalepsy homoplasy hypocrisy nongreasy outdoorsy overfussy speakeasy

10 letters 4

backwoodsy governessy minstrelsy narcolepsy

11 letters 5

antileprosy controversy discourtesy lithotripsy nympholepsy

12 letters 2

antiepilepsy idiosyncrasy

13 letters 1

pharmacognosy

Using these words

To find words ending in SY from your own letters, use the Word Unscrambler with SY in Ends with, or try a pattern such as ???SY 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.