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5-Letter Words Ending in NY

There are 71 five-letter words ending in NY on Word.ws, from agony to yenny. The most common are funny, penny, sunny, jenny and bunny.

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All 71 five-letter words ending in NY

A

  • agony9n. Extreme pain or anguish.
  • atony8n. Lack of muscle tone; flaccidity or atonia.

B

  • barny10adj. Barn-like.
  • beany10adj. Resembling or characteristic of beans.
  • benny10n. An amphetamine tablet.
  • binny10n. Niger barb (Labeobarbus bynni or Barbus bynni), a species of yellowfish...
  • briny10adj. Of, relating to, resembling, or containing brine (“water saturated or...
  • brony10n. A (usually major, often male) fan of the animated television series My...
  • bunny10n. A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
  • burny10adj. Tending to burn.

C

  • canny10adj. Careful, prudent, cautious.
  • carny10n. A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated...
  • conny10adj. Brave; fine; canny.
  • corny10adj. Boring and unoriginal.
  • crony10n. A close friend.

D

  • derny9n. A motorized bicycle for paced cycling events such as keirin.
  • donny9n. Don; bloke; dude; any man.
  • downy12adj. Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or...
  • dunny9adj. Somewhat dun, dusky brownish.

E

  • ebony10n. A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical...

F

  • fanny11n. The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
  • fenny11adj. Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline...
  • ferny11adj. Of or pertaining to ferns.
  • finny11adj. Having one or more fins.
  • funny11adj. Amusing; humorous; comical.

G

  • genny9n. A person from the suburbs who moves to a low-income urban area.
  • ginny9adj. Affected by gin; resembling or characteristic of gin.
  • goony9adj. Of or like a goon; thuggish; brutal.
  • gunny9n. A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp.

H

  • henny11n. Synonym of hinny (cross between a stallion and a she-ass).
  • hinny11n. The hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and a she-ass (female...

I

  • irony8n. The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually...

J

  • jenny15n. A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also...

M

  • manny10n. A male nanny (for children).
  • minny10n. A minnow.
  • moany10adj. Tending to complain.
  • moony10adj. Resembling the Moon.
  • munny10n. A measure of land used in the neighbourhood of Madras.

N

  • nanny8n. A child's nurse.
  • ninny8n. A silly or foolish person.
  • nonny8interj. A meaningless word used in refrains, especially in old English ballads...

P

  • panny10n. A house.
  • penny10n. In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of...
  • peony10n. A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers.
  • phony13adj. Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
  • pinny10n. A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over...
  • pruny10adj. (Of skin) wrinkled, especially in reference to the rugosity of digits...
  • punny10adj. Resembling a pun; involving the use of a pun.

R

  • rainy8adj. Pouring with rain; wet; showery.
  • ranny8n. A shrew (the animal).
  • renny8n. A non-binary parent.
  • runny8adj. Fluid; readily flowing.

S

  • sanny8n. Hand sanitiser.
  • shiny11adj. Reflecting light.
  • sonny8n. A familiar form of address for a boy.
  • spiny10adj. Covered in spines or thorns.
  • stony8adj. As hard as stone.
  • sunny8adj. Featuring a lot of sunshine.

T

  • tawny11adj. Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with...
  • teeny8adj. Very small; tiny.
  • tinny8adj. Of or pertaining to or resembling tin.
  • toony8adj. Cartoony.
  • towny11adj. Characteristic of a town.
  • tunny8n. Synonym of tuna.
  • turny8adj. Characterized by turns or a turning motion.

V

  • veiny11adj. Having prominent veins.
  • vinny11adj. Vinewed, mouldy.

W

  • weeny11adj. Minuscule; tiny.
  • whiny14adj. Whining; tending to whine or complain.
  • winny11n. Synonym of winnebago.

Y

  • yenny11n. One yen (unit of Japanese currency); a coin worth one yen.
18 rare five-letter words ending in NY

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in NY are there?
Word.ws lists 71 five-letter words ending in NY, plus 18 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in NY?
funny, penny, sunny, jenny, bunny, shiny, irony and rainy.
Which of the five-letter words ending in NY has the highest letter score?
jenny scores 15 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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