6 Letter Words Ending in Y

Common six-letter words that end in Y

The 50 most used in spoken English (SUBTLEX-US), with a short meaning.

• really 9/10 in accordance with truth or fact or reality
• pretty 11/11 pleasing by delicacy or grace
• family 14/15 a social unit living together
• nobody 12/13 a person of no influence
• anyway 15/14 used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement
• lovely 12/14 appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
• johnny 19/21 `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War
• hungry 13/14 feeling hunger
• plenty 11/13 a full supply
• guilty 10/12 responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
• hardly 13/12 only a very short time before
• memory 13/14 something that is remembered
• beauty 11/12 the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
• lately 9/10 in the recent past
• simply 13/15 and nothing more
• lonely 9/11 lacking companions or companionship
• bloody 12/13 having or covered with or accompanied by blood
• county 11/13 (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government
• nearly 9/10 (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished
• monkey 15/16 any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
• energy 10/11 (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work
• safety 12/11 the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions
• barely 11/12 only a very short time before
• theory 12/10 a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world
• surely 9/10 definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely')
• twenty 12/12 the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
• policy 13/15 a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
• mighty 15/15 having or showing great strength or force or intensity
• mostly 11/12 in large part
• likely 13/14 has a good chance of being the case or of coming about
• slowly 12/13 without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
• valley 12/14 a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
• steady 10/9 make steady
• turkey 13/13 large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail
• easily 9/9 with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
• highly 16/15 to a high degree or extent
• agency 12/14 an administrative unit of government
• cowboy 16/17 a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
• mickey 17/18 (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent
• supply 13/16 give something useful or necessary to
• jersey 16/17 a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic
• thirty 12/10 the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
• filthy 15/14 disgustingly dirty
• deputy 12/13 someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies
• merely 11/12 and nothing more
• deeply 12/13 to a great depth psychologically or emotionally
• murphy 16/17 an edible tuber native to South America
• skinny 13/14 being very thin
• sherry 12/10 dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere
• cherry 14/13 wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

The 1,000 most common of 1,170 six-letter words that end in Y

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