Krillion Recorded answers
3,492 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the suffix as a filter rather than a search term. First, empty your memory of towns you already know, then deliberately shrink the scale: think of the smallest named places you have ever seen on a map, in a postal address or on a road sign, because that is where the density lies. Next, work the morphology: take a handful of common first elements and try attaching them to the ending, then do the reverse and test longer tails that merely contain it. Keep a running list and deduplicate hard, since variants differing by one letter are the difference between a fresh answer and a repeat. Finally, sweep beyond the familiar naming region into transliterated forms and multi-word official names, which is where the unclaimed entries concentrate.
Get a hint
Begin with the ending itself: it is one of the most productive settlement suffixes in a whole family of related naming traditions, so the pool runs to thousands of entries and the reward comes from depth rather than from spotting the pattern.
A little more
Move from endings to shapes: many qualifying names are compounds whose first element is a personal name, a tree, a stream or a direction word, and a large share hide the ending inside longer tails such as -ston, -nton or -lton, so scanning those patterns multiplies your list.
One step further
The richest seam is the tier most players skip: tiny hamlets, absorbed suburban districts, isolated parish centres and transliterated names from unrelated naming systems, where near-identical forms cluster and each fresh variant is still unclaimed.
Reveal answers 3,492
- EgertonDeep Cut85points
- EggingtonDeep Cut85points
- EggintonDeep Cut85points
- EgglestonDeep Cut85points
- EgletonDeep Cut85points
- EglintonDeep Cut85points
- EgmantonDeep Cut85points
- EgtonDeep Cut85points
- El CantónDeep Cut85points
- El CarretónDeep Cut85points
- El CrestónDeep Cut85points
- El HoxtonDeep Cut85points
- El OcotónDeep Cut85points
- El PontónDeep Cut85points
- El Valle de AntónDeep Cut85points
- El ZacatónDeep Cut85points
- ElbertonDeep Cut85points
- ElburtonDeep Cut85points
- EldertonDeep Cut85points
- ElizabethtonDeep Cut85points
- ElktonDeep Cut85points
- EllentonDeep Cut85points
- EllertonDeep Cut85points
- EllingtonDeep Cut85points
- EllistonDeep Cut85points
- ElloughtonDeep Cut85points
- EllstonDeep Cut85points
- ElmtonDeep Cut85points
- ElstonDeep Cut85points
- ElvastonDeep Cut85points
- ElvingtonDeep Cut85points
- ElytonDeep Cut85points
- EmbertonDeep Cut85points
- EmbletonDeep Cut85points
- EmertonDeep Cut85points
- EmingtonDeep Cut85points
- EmlentonDeep Cut85points
- EmmingtonDeep Cut85points
- EnglerstonDeep Cut85points
- EngletonDeep Cut85points
- English FranktonDeep Cut85points
- ErdingtonDeep Cut85points
- ErltonDeep Cut85points
- ErmetonDeep Cut85points
- ErmingtonDeep Cut85points
- ErringtonDeep Cut85points
- ErwartonDeep Cut85points
- EskatonDeep Cut85points
- EssingtonDeep Cut85points
- EstonDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
A flat top tells the story: 3349 of the 3472 recorded answers sit on 85 points, so the scorer accepted almost any genuine settlement and then separated players by duplication rather than by obscurity alone. The solitary 100 went to Thaton, the rarest entry the scorer recognised, while entries such as Abberton and Accrington held 85 but shared their credit with a crowd. The 99 answers at 60 most plausibly represent the widely repeated choices, still correct but crowded enough for the overlap penalty to bite. Rarity therefore paid in one direction only: not exotic spelling for its own sake, but distance from whatever the average solver types first. A one-letter variant of a popular name earns less than an unfashionable hamlet, and the multi-word, hyphenated and transliterated forms in the list are the ones that stayed cheap to claim. Depth of recall beat cleverness.