Name a field, art or skill ending in -graphy

October 22, 2026 · Daily Dive #99

Explore 1,727 recorded answers and their points for question 4 on October 22, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 15,060 recorded answers

1,727 recorded names on October 22, 2026, 1,668 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Scan the vocabulary of sciences, crafts and professions for names built on the Greek root for writing, drawing or recording, then group what you find by discipline. Only established fields, arts, techniques or skills whose standard English name ends in -graphy qualify; plurals of unrelated words, brand names and invented coinages are excluded.

1,727 recorded answers1,668 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut1,66785 pts
  • Rare5160 pts
  • Schooler530 pts
  • Plankton310 pts
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Recorded answers

1,727 recorded answers

How to approach it

The suffix is productive, so treat this as a word-building exercise rather than a memory test. Write the ending on its own, then list everything the practice can be applied to: body parts, instruments, materials, landscapes, populations, light and sound. Attach each candidate to the ending and check whether the result is a term you have actually seen in a textbook, a journal or a craft manual; if it feels constructed on the spot, it probably is not recorded. Then add qualifiers such as a technique, a contrast medium, a wavelength or a scale, because longer and more specific names are usually the ones a dictionary recognizes. Keep a list, prune duplicates and obvious non-words, and submit the variants you can spell with confidence.

Get a hint

Start from the suffix itself: it marks a practice of recording, imaging or describing something, so hunt for the object being recorded rather than for a whole discipline.

A little more

Split the territory into three broad families: clinical imaging, the earth and life sciences that map or describe phenomena, and arts or crafts built on a writing or printing technique.

One step further

Push past the everyday members of the family into specialist compounds, where a body part, an instrument, a material or a measuring method sits in front of the suffix.

Reveal answers 1,727
  • SociographyDeep Cut85points
  • SociotopographyDeep Cut85points
  • Soft lithographyDeep Cut85points
  • Soil geographyDeep Cut85points
  • SolargraphyDeep Cut85points
  • Somatostatin receptor scintigraphyDeep Cut85points
  • SonohysterographyDeep Cut85points
  • SonomyographyDeep Cut85points
  • SonosalpingographyDeep Cut85points
  • SonospectrographyDeep Cut85points
  • Spatial demographyDeep Cut85points
  • Specialized lexicographyDeep Cut85points
  • Specimen photographyDeep Cut85points
  • Speckle-tracking echocardiographyDeep Cut85points
  • Spectral computed tomographyDeep Cut85points
  • Spectral mammographyDeep Cut85points
  • Spectral radiographyDeep Cut85points
  • SpectrographyDeep Cut85points
  • SpectroheliographyDeep Cut85points
  • SpectroheliokinematographyDeep Cut85points
  • SpectrophotographyDeep Cut85points
  • Specular photomicrographyDeep Cut85points
  • SpeleographyDeep Cut85points
  • SphenographyDeep Cut85points
  • SphygmographyDeep Cut85points
  • Spinal angiographyDeep Cut85points
  • Spirit PhotographyDeep Cut85points
  • Spiritual autobiographyDeep Cut85points
  • SpirographyDeep Cut85points
  • SplanchnographyDeep Cut85points
  • Splash photographyDeep Cut85points
  • Splenic scintigraphyDeep Cut85points
  • SplenographyDeep Cut85points
  • SplenoportographyDeep Cut85points
  • SplenovenographyDeep Cut85points
  • Sports geographyDeep Cut85points
  • Sprocket hole photographyDeep Cut85points
  • StabilographyDeep Cut85points
  • Staged PhotographyDeep Cut85points
  • StelographyDeep Cut85points
  • StenotelegraphyDeep Cut85points
  • Step-and-flash imprint lithographyDeep Cut85points
  • StereoangiographyDeep Cut85points
  • StereocinematographyDeep Cut85points
  • StereoelectroencephalographyDeep Cut85points
  • StereoencephalographyDeep Cut85points
  • StereographyDeep Cut85points
  • StereolithographyDeep Cut85points
  • StereomicrographyDeep Cut85points
  • StereophotographyDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The scoring here rewards specificity rather than cleverness. Only 51 of the 1,716 top-scoring entries sat at 60 points, while 1,664 clustered at 85, a distribution that tells you the field was dominated by specialized compounds, each obscure enough to clear the middle tier but not unique enough to break away. 3D mammography and 3D typography (85 each) are typical: a qualifier plus a familiar root, recognizable to a specialist and unknown to a general solver. Actigraphy (85) and Adoxography (85) sit in the same band, technical or archaic but documented. The lone 100-point answer, Steganography, was evidently picked by almost nobody else, so it collected the full rarity bonus. A plain, everyday member of the family lands in the low tier because hundreds of solvers reach for it first; stacking a modifier onto the root moves you into the 85 band, and only a genuinely surprising but real term reaches 100.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 22 Oct, 12:31 UTC

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