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
- AngastonDeep Cut85points
- AngertonDeep Cut85points
- AngletonDeep Cut85points
- AnstonDeep Cut85points
- AnthostonDeep Cut85points
- AntonDeep Cut85points
- AplingtonDeep Cut85points
- ArantónDeep Cut85points
- Archdeacon NewtonDeep Cut85points
- Ardens GraftonDeep Cut85points
- ArdingtonDeep Cut85points
- ArdpeatonDeep Cut85points
- ArgentonDeep Cut85points
- AritonDeep Cut85points
- ArlestonDeep Cut85points
- ArmingtonDeep Cut85points
- Arnières-sur-ItonDeep Cut85points
- ArnistonDeep Cut85points
- ArretonDeep Cut85points
- ArringtonDeep Cut85points
- ArthingtonDeep Cut85points
- ArthurtonDeep Cut85points
- ArtingtonDeep Cut85points
- AshburtonDeep Cut85points
- AshertonDeep Cut85points
- AshingtonDeep Cut85points
- AshpertonDeep Cut85points
- AshpringtonDeep Cut85points
- AshtonDeep Cut85points
- AskeatonDeep Cut85points
- AslactonDeep Cut85points
- AslocktonDeep Cut85points
- AsrikatonDeep Cut85points
- AssingtonDeep Cut85points
- Aston ClintonDeep Cut85points
- Aston cum AughtonDeep Cut85points
- AthelingtonDeep Cut85points
- AtheringtonDeep Cut85points
- AthertonDeep Cut85points
- AttonDeep Cut85points
- AubentonDeep Cut85points
- AughtonDeep Cut85points
- Aulnay-sur-ItonDeep Cut85points
- AvantonDeep Cut85points
- AvertonDeep Cut85points
- AvingtonDeep Cut85points
- AvistonDeep Cut85points
- AxtonDeep Cut85points
- AylburtonDeep Cut85points
- AylmertonDeep 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.