Words starting with LY

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are LY — 180 of 172,823.

Words

180

Everyday

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Longest

202 words tie

Shortest

3lye

2 words tie at 20 letters: lymphogranulomatoses and lymphogranulomatosis.

They run from 3 to 20 letters; 24 of them have 9 letters, more than any other length.

14 of them — 8% — 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 lymphocytosises, filed in the unranked list.

• LA1,354
• LE901
• LI1,222
• LO936
• LU456
• LY180

• All L…5,055
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• ends ARS
• ends ARY
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Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.