Words ending in YL
Every word in the dictionary whose last 2 letters are YL — 88 of 172,823.
- Words
- 88
- Everyday
- 1in the size-ranked core
- Longest
- 13perissodactyl
- Shortest
- 45 words tie
- vinyl
- acetyl
- acyl
- benzyl
- beryl
- dactyl
- ethyl
- methyl
- polyvinyl
- pterodactyl
- sibyl
- alanyl
- alkyl
- allyl
- amyl
- artiodactyl
- aryl
- benomyl
- benzoyl
- biphenyl
- butyl
- cacodyl
- carbaryl
- carbonyl
- carboxyl
- chromyl
- chrysoberyl
- cresyl
- dicotyl
- dimethyl
- diphenyl
- epicotyl
- ethinyl
- ethoxyl
- ethynyl
- formyl
- galactosyl
- glyceryl
- glycosyl
- glycyl
- hexyl
- hydroxyl
- hypocotyl
- indoxyl
- isopropyl
- naphthyl
- nitrosyl
- nonyl
- odyl
- pentyl
- perissodactyl
- phenyl
- phosphatidyl
- phosphoryl
- polydactyl
- propyl
- strongyl
- succinyl
- sulfhydryl
- sulfinyl
- sulfonyl
- sulfuryl
- tetryl
- thionyl
- toluyl
- tolyl
- triethyl
- trotyl
- uranyl
- zygodactyl
- acetoxyl
- adenyl
- alphyl
- biacetyl
- bimethyl
- bivinyl
- butyryl
- carbamyl
- cinnamyl
- diacetyl
- didactyl
- idyl
- mesophyl
- methoxyl
- octyl
- propenyl
- protyl
- xylyl
What is in this list
The longest is perissodactyl at 13 letters.
They run from 4 to 13 letters; 28 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.
1 of them — 1% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.
Every one of them contains each of L and Y.
The one furthest down the tiers is acetoxyl, filed in the unranked list.
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Other endings of 2 letters
Elsewhere
- All …L5,458
- starts ACC
- starts ALL
- starts ANA
- starts ANT
- starts APP
- starts ASS
- starts AUT
- starts BAC
- starts BAL
- starts BAN
- starts BAR
- starts BED
Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.