Word.ws English Dictionary

Words Ending in OY

There are 82 words ending in OY on Word.ws, from 2 to 10 letters. The most common length is 7 letters (18 words). The words used most often are boy, enjoy, joy, destroy and toy.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

2-letter words ending in OY

  • oy5interj. An exclamation typically expressing mild frustration or expressing...

3-letter words ending in OY

  • boy8n. A male child.
  • coy8adj. Bashful, shy, retiring.
  • doy7interj. Disdainful indication that something is obvious; see duh.
  • foy9n. Faith, allegiance.
  • hoy9n. A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying...
  • joy13n. A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to...
  • loy6n. A type of one-eared spade used in Ireland.
  • noy6v. To annoy; to harm or injure.
  • poy8n. A support structure.
  • roy6n. A king.
  • soy6n. A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to...
  • toy6n. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.

4-letter words ending in OY

  • ahoy10interj. Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
  • bhoy12n. A tough, a thug.
  • buoy9n. A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a...
  • cloy9v. To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
  • croy9n. A natural or man-made protrusion or jetty projecting on a river and...
  • ploy9n. A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
  • quoy16n. An area of wasteland (or common land) now enclosed for farming.
  • troy7adj. Of, or relating to, troy weight.

5-letter words ending in OY

  • alloy8n. A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of...
  • annoy8v. To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to...
  • decoy11n. A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
  • duroy9n. A kind of coarse woolen cloth used in 17th century England.
  • enjoy15v. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
  • envoy11n. A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an...
  • sepoy10n. A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a...
  • stroy8v. To destroy.

6-letter words ending in OY

  • bagboy14n. A man or boy employed to put clients' purchases (e.g. groceries) into...
  • batboy13n. A boy employed to watch over the bats, and assist the players in...
  • busboy13n. An assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables.
  • carboy13n. A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for...
  • catboy13n. A boy or man who wears a cat costume and plays the role of a cat.
  • convoy14n. One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general...
  • cowboy16n. A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
  • deploy12v. To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to...
  • employ13v. To retain (someone) as an employee.
  • fanboy14v. To worship, support, drool over the object of affection; to be a fanboy.
  • femboy16n. A (typically young) male or non-binary individual who adopts a feminine...
  • flyboy17n. An aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft.
  • lowboy14n. A low chest of drawers.
  • manboy13n. An emotionally immature man.
  • tannoy9n. A public address system.
  • tomboy13n. A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner.

7-letter words ending in OY

  • attaboy12interj. Used to show encouragement or approval to a boy, man, or male animal.
  • bellboy14n. A male worker, usually at a hotel, who carries luggage and runs errands.
  • callboy14n. A male prostitute.
  • destroy11v. To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that...
  • farmboy17n. A boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing...
  • fireboy15n. A young fireman.
  • highboy19n. A tall chest of drawers that is raised up on high legs.
  • homeboy17n. Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.
  • lazyboy24n. A plush stuffed swivel rocking recliner armchair.
  • newsboy15n. A boy, or by extension a man, who sells and/or delivers newspapers.
  • pageboy15n. A boy who serves as a page.
  • playboy17n. A single man, especially a wealthy one, who devotes himself to a life...
  • ponyboy17n. The male equivalent of a ponygirl.
  • rudeboy13n. A male juvenile delinquent, originally in Jamaica in the 1960s.
  • saveloy13n. A seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked.
  • starboy12n. A young male celebrity.
  • tallboy12n. A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest...
  • viceroy15n. One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of...

8-letter words ending in OY

  • blackboy21n. Any plant in the genus Xanthorrhoea, native to Australia.
  • choirboy18n. A boy chorister.
  • corduroy14n. A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
  • doughboy18n. An American infantryman, especially one from World War I.
  • houseboy16n. A young male domestic servant, especially in a British colony in former...
  • loverboy16n. A male lover, especially a young one.
  • paperboy17n. A boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.
  • redeploy14v. To deploy again.
  • sonobuoy13n. A buoy that sends a radio signal when it detects the sound of...
  • superboy15n. A very remarkable, talented or otherwise exceptional boy.
  • unemploy15v. To cause someone to become unemployed.
  • whiteboy19n. Heroin.
  • zircaloy22n. Any of a set of specialist alloys of zirconium.

9-letter words ending in OY

  • permalloy16n. Any of a class of nickel/iron alloys that have a high magnetic...
  • ploughboy20n. A boy who directed the draught animals that pulled a plough; a boy who...
  • schoolboy19n. A boy attending school.
  • wonderboy18n. A male child prodigy, or (loosely) a talented male of any age.

10-letter words ending in OY

  • ferroalloy16n. Any alloy of iron and another metal, especially one of silicon...
  • superalloy15n. Any of several high-performance alloys that are resistant to high...
170 rare words ending in OY

Questions about these words

How many words ending in OY are there?
Word.ws lists 82 words ending in OY, plus 170 rare ones.
What are common words ending in OY?
boy, enjoy, joy, destroy, toy, roy, employ and troy.
Which of the words ending in OY has the highest letter score?
lazyboy scores 24 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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