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
- HundertonDeep Cut85points
- HundletonDeep Cut85points
- HunningtonDeep Cut85points
- HunstantonDeep Cut85points
- HunstonDeep Cut85points
- HuntonDeep Cut85points
- HuttonDeep Cut85points
- HuytonDeep Cut85points
- IchintónDeep Cut85points
- IckletonDeep Cut85points
- IdmistonDeep Cut85points
- IldertonDeep Cut85points
- IlkestonDeep Cut85points
- IllingtonDeep Cut85points
- IlmingtonDeep Cut85points
- IlsingtonDeep Cut85points
- IlstonDeep Cut85points
- IltonDeep Cut85points
- ImpingtonDeep Cut85points
- InatonDeep Cut85points
- IngletonDeep Cut85points
- InglistonDeep Cut85points
- InvermoristonDeep Cut85points
- IretonDeep Cut85points
- Iron ActonDeep Cut85points
- IrontonDeep Cut85points
- IrthingtonDeep Cut85points
- IrtonDeep Cut85points
- IrwintonDeep Cut85points
- Isla RatónDeep Cut85points
- IsletonDeep Cut85points
- IstonDeep Cut85points
- IvestonDeep Cut85points
- IvingtonDeep Cut85points
- JacktonDeep Cut85points
- JamestonDeep Cut85points
- JaytonDeep Cut85points
- JeffreystonDeep Cut85points
- JoeltonDeep Cut85points
- JohnstonDeep Cut85points
- JotonDeep Cut85points
- JoubertonDeep Cut85points
- JourdantonDeep Cut85points
- KaintonDeep Cut85points
- KamarutonDeep Cut85points
- KarangpaitonDeep Cut85points
- KarangpetonDeep Cut85points
- KaratonDeep Cut85points
- KedatonDeep Cut85points
- KedingtonDeep 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.