Words ending in NCY
Every word in the dictionary whose last 3 letters are NCY — 254 of 172,823.
- Words
- 254
- Everyday
- 47in the size-ranked core
- Longest
- 17counterinsurgency
- Shortest
- 54 words tie
- accountancy
- agency
- buoyancy
- clemency
- cogency
- complacency
- concurrency
- consistency
- constancy
- constituency
- consultancy
- contingency
- currency
- decency
- deficiency
- delinquency
- dependency
- discrepancy
- efficiency
- emergency
- expectancy
- expediency
- fancy
- fluency
- frequency
- hesitancy
- inconsistency
- indecency
- inefficiency
- infancy
- insolvency
- leniency
- malignancy
- militancy
- occupancy
- poignancy
- potency
- pregnancy
- presidency
- proficiency
- redundancy
- tenancy
- tendency
- transparency
- truancy
- urgency
- vacancy
- absorbency
- adjacency
- ascendancy
- astringency
- belligerency
- blatancy
- bouncy
- brilliancy
- captaincy
- chancy
- chaplaincy
- codependency
- coherency
- competency
- conservancy
- counterinsurgency
- decadency
- despondency
- deviancy
- dormancy
- equivalency
- excellency
- exigency
- fervency
- flagrancy
- flamboyancy
- flippancy
- flouncy
- immanency
- immunodeficiency
- impotency
- inclemency
- incompetency
- inconstancy
- incumbency
- inexpediency
- infrequency
- insufficiency
- insurgency
- interagency
- intermittency
- irrelevancy
- jouncy
- lambency
- latency
- lieutenancy
- mendicancy
- mordancy
- nancy
- necromancy
- permanency
- piquancy
- plangency
- pliancy
- pungency
- rampancy
- regency
- relevancy
- residency
- resiliency
- solvency
- stagnancy
- stridency
- stringency
- subtenancy
- sufficiency
- superintendency
- sycophancy
- transiency
- translucency
- trenchancy
- vagrancy
- valency
- vibrancy
- aberrancy
- absorbancy
- adamancy
- adjutancy
- advertency
- affluency
- appetency
- ardency
- attractancy
- benignancy
- cadency
- chatoyancy
- chieftaincy
- chiromancy
- compliancy
- congruency
- consonancy
- conveniency
- convergency
- conversancy
- corpulency
- correspondency
- countertendency
- covalency
- detergency
- dilatancy
- discordancy
- divergency
- ebulliency
- elegancy
- eminency
- ensigncy
- errancy
- excrescency
- extravagancy
- exultancy
- flatulency
- fragrancy
- geomancy
- gyrofrequency
- hydromancy
- imminency
- impermanency
- impertinency
- importancy
- inadvertency
- incessancy
- incipiency
- incontinency
- inconveniency
- independency
- indifferency
- inerrancy
- inhabitancy
- innocency
- insignificancy
- insistency
- instancy
- interdependency
- itinerancy
- lucency
- multiagency
- multicurrency
- multifrequency
- nascency
- nonbelligerency
- nonemergency
- nonfluency
- nonresidency
- oneiromancy
- opulency
- patency
- peccancy
- pendency
- persistency
- pertinency
- petulancy
- postemergency
- postulancy
- precedency
- precipitancy
- predominancy
- preoccupancy
- preponderancy
- prepotency
- pruriency
- pseudopregnancy
- pudency
- pyromancy
- radiancy
- radiolucency
- recalcitrancy
- recency
- recumbency
- recusancy
- regnancy
- reluctancy
- renitency
- repellency
- repugnancy
- resplendency
- reticency
- rhabdomancy
- saliency
- sapiency
- sequency
- sergeancy
- significancy
- subagency
- subjacency
- subpotency
- subserviency
- superagency
- superefficiency
- tangency
- totipotency
- transcendency
- truculency
- turbulency
- unchancy
- unfancy
- valiancy
- verdancy
- vicegerency
- virulency
- zincy
- abeyancy
- ascendency
- coagency
- mincy
- turgency
- unbouncy
- unsoncy
What is in this list
The longest is counterinsurgency at 17 letters.
They run from 5 to 17 letters; 60 of them have 10 letters, more than any other length.
47 of them — 19% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.
Every one of them contains each of C, N and Y.
The one furthest down the tiers is ascendency, filed in the unranked list.
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1014
315
616
117
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Other endings of 3 letters
Elsewhere
- All …CY378
- starts ACC
- starts ALL
- starts ANA
- starts ANT
- starts APP
- starts ASS
- starts AUT
- starts BAC
- starts BAL
- starts BAN
- starts BAR
- starts BED
Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.