How many words with GLY are there?

This page lists 621 words with GLY from our dictionary, each shown with its Scrabble score.

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Words With GLY

All 621 words in our dictionary that contain GLY — sorted by Scrabble score.

621 words · number = Scrabble score · sorted highest score first

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Why GLY words matter

Words containing GLY are handy for Scrabble, Words with Friends and word puzzles — filter the list above by length to find the play you need.

This list by the numbers

The shape of this list: 621 entries between 4 and 15 letters long, peaking at 10 letters with 130 words. Five-letter picks number 2 and seven-letter picks 14. Nothing here outscores DIZZYINGLY — 36 points from 10 tiles on plain squares.

The five biggest scorers on the page: DIZZYINGLY (36), DRIZZLINGLY (34), PUZZLINGLY (34), DAZZLINGLY (33), HYPERGLYCEMIC (31). At 15 letters, ACCOMMODATINGLY is the longest word on the list; a typical entry scores around 19. The most useful tiles to hold for this list are Y, G and L, which appear in 621, 621 and 621 of the words respectively.

Start with these three

When the rack looks hopeless, LONGLY (6 letters, 10 points) is the kind of quiet play that keeps a game moving.
Playing SINGLY across a double-word square turns its base 10 points into 20 — solid value for 6 tiles.
SNUGLY — 6 letters for 10 points; every tile in it is a common draw, so it shows up rack after rack.

Round out your set with TANGLY (10), TINGLY (10), TRIGLY (10), GANGLY (11), GLEGLY (11) — all built from common tiles.

GLY as a vocabulary shortcut

Letter chunks like GLY are how vocabulary compounds: learn the pattern once and every word built on it gets easier to recall and to spell. Read down this list and you will see the same rhythm repeat across lengths — that repetition is exactly what makes these words stick for spelling bees, ESL study and crossword pattern-matching alike.

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