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10 Letter Words Ending In Y

There are 3,744 ten-letter words ending in Y. 1,424 of them are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 51 are everyday English, and the highest scorer is quizzingly at 41 points.

The words

The 400 most common of 3,744, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 51

Word-game words 349

What is in this list

Every word carries its Scrabble score; hover one to see its Words With Friends score, which differs because the two games value tiles differently. Both are raw tile totals and exclude double- and triple-letter squares, since those depend on where you put the word rather than on the word itself.

Words in total
3,744
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
1,424 (38%)
Everyday words
51
Archaic or rare
2,320
Highest Scrabble score
quizzingly at 41
Average Scrabble score
18.4
Letters that turn up most
Y 100%, L 69%, I 58%, A 58%, R 56%, E 55%

Questions

How many 10 letter words end in Y?
3,744, across every dictionary this site merges. 51 of those are everyday English, 1,373 are valid in word games without being words you would say out loud, and 2,320 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete.
Which of them are valid in Scrabble?
1,424 appear in ENABLE, the word list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs check against. The 2,320 archaic entries are shown last and labelled, because a word game will usually reject them.
What is the highest-scoring 10 letter word that end in Y?
quizzingly, worth 41 in Scrabble and 44 in Words With Friends. Both are raw tile values, before any double- or triple-letter square.
Which are the most common?
By frequency in ordinary English: university, technology, especially, dictionary, completely, frequently, laboratory, originally. The list below is in that order, so the words you are most likely to want come first.

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