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
- VermentonDeep Cut85points
- Verneuil d'Avre et d'ItonDeep Cut85points
- VerringtonDeep Cut85points
- VertonDeep Cut85points
- Veyre-MontonDeep Cut85points
- Vigo di TonDeep Cut85points
- VillagatónDeep Cut85points
- Villers-BoutonDeep Cut85points
- VilletonDeep Cut85points
- VillexantonDeep Cut85points
- VintonDeep Cut85points
- VirtonDeep Cut85points
- VoultonDeep Cut85points
- WactonDeep Cut85points
- WaddingtonDeep Cut85points
- Wade HamptonDeep Cut85points
- WahpetonDeep Cut85points
- WalbertonDeep Cut85points
- WalderstonDeep Cut85points
- WaldertonDeep Cut85points
- WalghertonDeep Cut85points
- WalhamptonDeep Cut85points
- WalkerstonDeep Cut85points
- WalkertonDeep Cut85points
- WalkhamptonDeep Cut85points
- WalkingtonDeep Cut85points
- WallacetonDeep Cut85points
- WallingtonDeep Cut85points
- WallistonDeep Cut85points
- WalstonDeep Cut85points
- WaltonDeep Cut85points
- WaplingtonDeep Cut85points
- WarbletonDeep Cut85points
- WarblingtonDeep Cut85points
- WarburtonDeep Cut85points
- WardingtonDeep Cut85points
- WarktonDeep Cut85points
- WarmingtonDeep Cut85points
- WarnetonDeep Cut85points
- WarrentonDeep Cut85points
- WarringtonDeep Cut85points
- WarristonDeep Cut85points
- WartonDeep Cut85points
- WaspertonDeep Cut85points
- Water EatonDeep Cut85points
- Water NewtonDeep Cut85points
- Water OrtonDeep Cut85points
- Waters UptonDeep Cut85points
- WaterstonDeep Cut85points
- WatertonDeep 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.