Krillion 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
- X-Ray CrystallographyDeep Cut85points
- X-ray holographyDeep Cut85points
- X-ray kymographyDeep Cut85points
- X-ray lithographyDeep Cut85points
- XenographyDeep Cut85points
- XerographyDeep Cut85points
- XeromammographyDeep Cut85points
- XeroradiographyDeep Cut85points
- XographyDeep Cut85points
- XylographyDeep Cut85points
- ZenographyDeep Cut85points
- ZincographyDeep Cut85points
- ZonographyDeep Cut85points
- ZoogeographyDeep Cut85points
- ZoographyDeep Cut85points
- ZoophytographyDeep Cut85points
- ZoopraxographyDeep Cut85points
- ZymographyDeep Cut85points
- Aerial photographyRare60points
- AngiographyRare60points
- AstrophotographyRare60points
- AutobiographyRare60points
- BiogeographyRare60points
- Chinese CalligraphyRare60points
- ChoreographyRare60points
- ChromatographyRare60points
- Computed TomographyRare60points
- CryptographyRare60points
- CrystallographyRare60points
- DemographyRare60points
- Digital PhotographyRare60points
- DiscographyRare60points
- EchocardiographyRare60points
- ElectrocardiographyRare60points
- EthnographyRare60points
- Fashion PhotographyRare60points
- Food PhotographyRare60points
- HistoriographyRare60points
- HolographyRare60points
- Human GeographyRare60points
- HydrographyRare60points
- IconographyRare60points
- Landscape photographyRare60points
- LexicographyRare60points
- LithographyRare60points
- LomographyRare60points
- MammographyRare60points
- Nature photographyRare60points
- OceanographyRare60points
- OrthographyRare60points
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.