Pick a suffix below to browse a complete, filterable list of English words that end with that pattern — with definitions, word types, and difficulty ratings. Useful for poetry, Scrabble, vocabulary study, and word games.
Each suffix below links to a dedicated word list page. Use the search box above to jump directly to a suffix.
22 suffix pages, each with definitions and filters.
If you're going the other direction and need words by their first letter instead of their ending, the A to Z starting-letter hub is the sibling to this one. Between the two, both ends of the word are covered, which is what you want when a crossword clue, a Wordle guess, or a rhyme scheme has already locked one end down and you're working from there.
The last few letters of an English word tell you a lot about what kind of word it is. An "-ly" ending is almost always signaling an adverb: quickly, softly, hopefully. Meanwhile "-tion" points at a noun that names an action or its result (creation, decision, revolution), and something like "-able" is a promise from the language that whatever comes before it can be done to you or by you (breakable, readable, forgivable). Once that pattern-recognition kicks in, unfamiliar words stop looking as unfamiliar as they used to, and picking a precise word in your own writing becomes less about reaching for the first synonym you think of and more about matching the exact shade you want.
Word games lean on the same instinct. If you're stuck on a Wordle puzzle and you know the ending is "-IGHT", scanning the -IGHT page trims the answer set down to about a dozen words in one glance. In Scrabble, having a mental list of two-syllable "-ous" or "-ive" words is what turns a cramped, high-consonant rack into a real play. And for poetry or songwriting, a suffix page does something a thesaurus can't: it hands you words that share a sound at the end of the line, which is a different thing entirely from finding a synonym for the meaning.
Each suffix page pulls every matching word from a curated English dictionary of about 10,000 entries and lays them out as cards. Every card shows the word, its definition, its part of speech, and a difficulty tag so you can tell at a glance whether it's everyday vocabulary or something more obscure. The filter bar at the top of the page narrows the list by word type (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) or by difficulty (easy, medium, hard). When you want to pull the visible list out of the page, the copy button hands it over in whichever format you need: one word per line, comma-separated for a spreadsheet, or space-separated if that's what your other tool expects.
Pick the suffix you want from the grid above. Each page lists every matching word in the dictionary and lets you filter the list by word type and difficulty. If the exact suffix you're after isn't in the grid, the ones that cover the most ground in English are -ING, -LY, -TION, -ED, -ER, -ABLE, and -AL. Between them, those seven suffixes account for a big chunk of the words most people actually need.
Out of the suffixes on this page, -LY runs away with it at 971+ words. That's because -LY is the go-to conversion for turning almost any adjective in English into an adverb, and English has a lot of adjectives. -ING and -ED come in next, with 525+ and 611+ words respectively. Both of those are standard verb-inflection endings, which every regular verb picks up automatically, so they scale with the size of the verb list.
Yes. In Wordle, a suffix page earns its keep the moment you've pinned down the last few letters of the answer. The -IGHT page in particular has bailed out a lot of Wordle attempts, since it turns up as a past answer more often than you'd guess. In Scrabble, a suffix page is what you reach for when the end of a word is already set on the rack (or on the board) and you're hunting for something that plays into that fixed ending.
Absolutely. Suffix pages give you a fast way to find words that share an ending sound, which is what you're usually after when you're writing a rhyme. They're organized by spelling pattern rather than phonetics, so they behave a bit differently than a proper rhyming dictionary. Pair them with the rhyming dictionary and you get the best of both approaches: spelling matches from here, sound matches from there.