8-Letter Words Containing ELY

There are 86 8-letter words that contain ELY. 46 are common words, such as ACTIVELY and ASTUTELY. A rarer one is VOTIVELY. In this set, I is the most frequent open letter (38 words). 4 words contain a doubled letter.

Full list 86

Common words

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Words
86 (46 common words)
Common example
actively
Rare example
votively
Doubled letters
4
Ending in S
2
Most frequent letter
I (38)

Questions

How many 8-letter words containing ely are there?

86. 46 of them are common words.

What is a common example?

ACTIVELY is among the common words in this set.