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
- otaryDeep Cut85points
- othylDeep Cut85points
- otiumDeep Cut85points
- ottarDeep Cut85points
- ottosDeep Cut85points
- oubitDeep Cut85points
- oucheDeep Cut85points
- ouchtDeep Cut85points
- ouedsDeep Cut85points
- ouensDeep Cut85points
- oulksDeep Cut85points
- oumasDeep Cut85points
- oundyDeep Cut85points
- oupasDeep Cut85points
- oupedDeep Cut85points
- oupheDeep Cut85points
- ouphsDeep Cut85points
- oureyDeep Cut85points
- ourieDeep Cut85points
- ouselDeep Cut85points
- ousiaDeep Cut85points
- outbyDeep Cut85points
- outenDeep Cut85points
- outgoDeep Cut85points
- outreDeep Cut85points
- ouzelDeep Cut85points
- ouzosDeep Cut85points
- ovelsDeep Cut85points
- oversDeep Cut85points
- ovineDeep Cut85points
- ovismDeep Cut85points
- ovistDeep Cut85points
- ovoidDeep Cut85points
- ovoliDeep Cut85points
- ovoloDeep Cut85points
- ovuleDeep Cut85points
- owareDeep Cut85points
- owariDeep Cut85points
- owcheDeep Cut85points
- owersDeep Cut85points
- owledDeep Cut85points
- owlerDeep Cut85points
- ownioDeep Cut85points
- owresDeep Cut85points
- owrieDeep Cut85points
- owsenDeep Cut85points
- oxeasDeep Cut85points
- oxersDeep Cut85points
- oxeyeDeep Cut85points
- oxidsDeep 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.