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
- Thorpe LangtonDeep Cut85points
- ThorringtonDeep Cut85points
- ThorvertonDeep Cut85points
- ThrandestonDeep Cut85points
- ThrapstonDeep Cut85points
- ThrockmortonDeep Cut85points
- ThroptonDeep Cut85points
- ThrostonDeep Cut85points
- ThrumptonDeep Cut85points
- ThrusheltonDeep Cut85points
- ThrussingtonDeep Cut85points
- ThrustonDeep Cut85points
- ThruxtonDeep Cut85points
- ThulstonDeep Cut85points
- ThurcastonDeep Cut85points
- ThurgartonDeep Cut85points
- ThurlastonDeep Cut85points
- ThurloxtonDeep Cut85points
- ThurltonDeep Cut85points
- ThurmastonDeep Cut85points
- ThurstastonDeep Cut85points
- ThurstonDeep Cut85points
- ThurtonDeep Cut85points
- ThurvastonDeep Cut85points
- ThuxtonDeep Cut85points
- TibbertonDeep Cut85points
- TibbingtonDeep Cut85points
- TicklertonDeep Cut85points
- TicktonDeep Cut85points
- TiddingtonDeep Cut85points
- TidmingtonDeep Cut85points
- TietonDeep Cut85points
- TiftonDeep Cut85points
- TigertonDeep Cut85points
- TillingtonDeep Cut85points
- Tilney cum IslingtonDeep Cut85points
- TilstonDeep Cut85points
- TiltonDeep Cut85points
- TincletonDeep Cut85points
- TinguatónDeep Cut85points
- TiptonDeep Cut85points
- TissingtonDeep Cut85points
- TiszaszentmártonDeep Cut85points
- TivertonDeep Cut85points
- Tizac-de-CurtonDeep Cut85points
- TockingtonDeep Cut85points
- ToddingtonDeep Cut85points
- Toft next NewtonDeep Cut85points
- TogstonDeep Cut85points
- TojikistonDeep 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.