How many words with SLY are there?

This page lists 593 words with SLY from our dictionary, each shown with its Scrabble score.

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Words With SLY

All 593 words in our dictionary that contain SLY — sorted by Scrabble score.

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

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arduously13 endlessly13 listlessly13 lustrously13 nauseously13 odorously13 porously13 remissly13 restlessly13 sensuously13 slyboots13 sonorously13 soullessly13 tediously13 tirelessly13 tonelessly13 tortiously13 tortuously13 tunelessly13 usuriously13 artlessly12 crassly12 crossly12 odiously12 onerously12 piously12 riotously12 ruinously12 seriously12 sinlessly12 sinuously12 slynesses12 tenuously12 thusly12 uselessly12 bassly11 grossly11 measly11 pussly11 slyly11 slypes11 grisly10 slyness10 slype10 slyest9 slyer8 sly6

Why SLY words matter

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

A quick statistical tour

The shape of this list: 593 entries between 3 and 15 letters long, peaking at 11 letters with 142 words. Five-letter picks number 3 and seven-letter picks 5. Nothing here outscores HOMOZYGOUSLY — 33 points from 12 tiles on plain squares.

For quick reference, the top of the score table reads: HOMOZYGOUSLY (33), AMBIDEXTROUSLY (29), OVOVIVIPAROUSLY (29), POLYMORPHOUSLY (29), INEFFICACIOUSLY (28). AUTOCHTHONOUSLY (15 letters) stretches furthest, while the list-wide average score sits near 18 points. Letter-wise, S is the workhorse — it appears in 593 of these words, ahead of L (593) and Y (593).

Three easy picks from this list

SLYEST earns 9 points from just 6 tiles — and it is a word few opponents will bother to challenge.
SLYER — 5 letters for 8 points; every tile in it is a common draw, so it shows up rack after rack.
Playing GRISLY across a double-word square turns its base 10 points into 20 — solid value for 6 tiles.

Five more everyday options from the same list: BASSLY (11), MEASLY (11), PUSSLY (11), SLYPES (11), SLY (6).

Learning words through SLY

Letter chunks like SLY 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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