Krillion Recorded answers
14,853 recorded answers
How to approach it
Leaving your own vocabulary behind is the first move: head for glossaries of local speech, older editions and specialist registers that nobody reads for pleasure. Build candidates out of their letter skeleton rather than their sense, taking an awkward consonant frame, slotting open sounds into combinations that look impossible, then checking whether the result stands as a genuine headword. Keep score as you go and discard anything that proves to be a proper noun, an inflection of a longer word or a two-word phrase, since those three sink most attempts. Rarity drives the payoff, so whenever two candidates look equally solid, submit the one you have never met in print.
Get a hint
Weigh how vast a full wordbook is against how few of its five-letter inhabitants ever reach everyday speech; that unused majority is exactly the territory worth working.
A little more
Sort candidates by where they come from instead of by meaning: dialect glossaries, spellings abandoned centuries ago, occupational vocabulary and borrowings from far-off tongues all sit inside the accepted pool.
One step further
Judge a candidate by its letter frame before its sense: sour consonant clusters, odd runs of open sounds and endings that hardly ever close a word, then verify one attested entry rather than a derived variant.
Reveal answers 14,853
- nongsDeep Cut85points
- nonicDeep Cut85points
- nonisDeep Cut85points
- nonnaDeep Cut85points
- nonnoDeep Cut85points
- nonnyDeep Cut85points
- nonylDeep Cut85points
- nooisDeep Cut85points
- nooitDeep Cut85points
- nooneDeep Cut85points
- noonsDeep Cut85points
- noopsDeep Cut85points
- nooveDeep Cut85points
- nopalDeep Cut85points
- noriaDeep Cut85points
- norieDeep Cut85points
- norisDeep Cut85points
- norksDeep Cut85points
- normaDeep Cut85points
- noserDeep Cut85points
- noshiDeep Cut85points
- nosirDeep Cut85points
- notalDeep Cut85points
- notamDeep Cut85points
- noterDeep Cut85points
- notumDeep Cut85points
- nougsDeep Cut85points
- noujaDeep Cut85points
- nouldDeep Cut85points
- nouleDeep Cut85points
- noulsDeep Cut85points
- nounyDeep Cut85points
- noupsDeep Cut85points
- noustDeep Cut85points
- novaeDeep Cut85points
- noviaDeep Cut85points
- novioDeep Cut85points
- novumDeep Cut85points
- nowayDeep Cut85points
- nowdsDeep Cut85points
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- nowlsDeep Cut85points
- nowtsDeep Cut85points
- nowtyDeep Cut85points
- noxalDeep Cut85points
- noxasDeep Cut85points
- noxesDeep Cut85points
- noyauDeep Cut85points
- noyedDeep Cut85points
- noyesDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Boldness outearns fluency in this reveal. Of the 14,855 recorded answers, 13,614 cleared the sixty-point bar, and the internal split is revealing: 10,213 stalled at 85, another 3,400 finished on 60, and a single answer reached 100. That summit belongs to qajaq, a spelling so outlandish that few players could produce it by accident, which is precisely why it pays. The 85 band is thronged with attested but rarely written entries such as aahed, abaca, abaft and abysm, words you only reach by prospecting outside everyday vocabulary on purpose. The 60 band gathers the familiar five-letter stock: valid, easy to recall, and therefore worth less. Correctness alone opens the door; the score then measures how far a pick sits from the obvious, so a real entry with a peculiar look outranks a common word every time.