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27 five letter words begin with LY, and only a handful of them are words you would use.
S leads at about twenty two percent, then C at fifteen, and A, R and T at eleven each.
LY is far more productive at the end of a word than at the start. Almost nothing in English begins with it, and what does is mostly Greek derived or a name.
LYING, LYRIC and LYMPH are the entries a player would recognise, with LYRES and LYCEE some way behind them.
Guess LYING first. It is much the most common entry and its I, N and G rule out a great deal when they miss.
It works as a suffix in English, turning adjectives into adverbs. As an opening it only survives in words borrowed from Greek.
Yes, it is an ordinary word and the second most common entry here, so it is the natural follow up once LYING has failed.
LYSIS and LYSED among others. It is the largest branch at twenty two percent but it holds only technical terms.