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
- EtchilhamptonDeep Cut85points
- EtheltonDeep Cut85points
- EttingtonDeep Cut85points
- EttletonDeep Cut85points
- EttonDeep Cut85points
- EuxtonDeep Cut85points
- EvantonDeep Cut85points
- EvatonDeep Cut85points
- EvingtonDeep Cut85points
- EwartonDeep Cut85points
- Ex Hacienda ChintónDeep Cut85points
- ExtonDeep Cut85points
- EytonDeep Cut85points
- FactretonDeep Cut85points
- FairlingtonDeep Cut85points
- FairtonDeep Cut85points
- FallstonDeep Cut85points
- FankertonDeep Cut85points
- Far CottonDeep Cut85points
- FaringtonDeep Cut85points
- FarletonDeep Cut85points
- FarlingtonDeep Cut85points
- FarringtonDeep Cut85points
- FaulktonDeep Cut85points
- FaulstonDeep Cut85points
- FaystonDeep Cut85points
- FearringtonDeep Cut85points
- FeatherstonDeep Cut85points
- FelixtonDeep Cut85points
- FelsőszentmártonDeep Cut85points
- FeltonDeep Cut85points
- Fen DittonDeep Cut85points
- Fen DraytonDeep Cut85points
- FendaltonDeep Cut85points
- FenitonDeep Cut85points
- Fenny ComptonDeep Cut85points
- Fenny DraytonDeep Cut85points
- FenstantonDeep Cut85points
- FentonDeep Cut85points
- Ferry FrystonDeep Cut85points
- FewstonDeep Cut85points
- FiddingtonDeep Cut85points
- Field BroughtonDeep Cut85points
- FieldstonDeep Cut85points
- FiltonDeep Cut85points
- Finch HattonDeep Cut85points
- FinniestonDeep Cut85points
- FishertonDeep Cut85points
- FiskertonDeep Cut85points
- FittletonDeep 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.