Krillion Recorded answers
761 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the alphabet rather than your memory. Begin by free-associating every edible or drinkable word you know under those opening letters, and write the list down so duplicates become obvious. Then switch to structure: run through the culinary aisles one at a time — dairy, grains and breads, drinks fermented and distilled, preserves, sweets, condiments — and force five candidates from each. When that well runs dry, change language rather than topic: think of cuisines whose vocabulary English borrows wholesale, and dredge up terms you have seen on menus or import labels but never used. Finally, check form: a candidate must stand as one word, no space or hyphen, though accents are fine. Submit the rarest entry you can defend, not the first one you thought of.
Get a hint
Start from sound rather than spelling: a large share of these words reach English as transliterations, so one initial sound may be written with a single letter pair across many unrelated scripts.
A little more
Sort your candidates by shop aisle instead of by cuisine — dairy, grain, drinks, preserves, sweets, condiments — and notice which aisles borrow most heavily from regional dialects and old trade routes.
One step further
Then push past the short, obvious options toward longer terms of three or four syllables, often with doubled consonants, open vowels or an accent on the last syllable, the kind printed on specialist menus and import labels.
Reveal answers 761
- ChuletónDeep Cut85points
- ChulliDeep Cut85points
- ChulpiDeep Cut85points
- ChultaDeep Cut85points
- ChumDeep Cut85points
- ChumakiDeep Cut85points
- ChumbequeDeep Cut85points
- ChumilesDeep Cut85points
- ChumpDeep Cut85points
- ChunghaDeep Cut85points
- ChunjangDeep Cut85points
- ChunkyDeep Cut85points
- ChuñoDeep Cut85points
- ChupeDeep Cut85points
- ChupichupiDeep Cut85points
- ChupilcaDeep Cut85points
- ChupínDeep Cut85points
- ChupónDeep Cut85points
- ChurchillDeep Cut85points
- ChurchkhelaDeep Cut85points
- ChurekDeep Cut85points
- ChuripoDeep Cut85points
- ChurkaniDeep Cut85points
- ChurmaDeep Cut85points
- ChurmurDeep Cut85points
- ChurmuriDeep Cut85points
- ChurrascaDeep Cut85points
- ChurrasquinhoDeep Cut85points
- ChurritosDeep Cut85points
- ChurrumaisDeep Cut85points
- ChuruDeep Cut85points
- ChusclanDeep Cut85points
- ChuskiDeep Cut85points
- ChutagiDeep Cut85points
- ChutoroDeep Cut85points
- ChuviscoDeep Cut85points
- ChuwarakDeep Cut85points
- ChuzoDeep Cut85points
- ChveniDeep Cut85points
- ChvishtariDeep Cut85points
- ChvitiluriDeep Cut85points
- ChwinamulDeep Cut85points
- ChyawanprashDeep Cut85points
- ChaatRare60points
- ChablisRare60points
- ChallahRare60points
- ChambordRare60points
- ChamoyRare60points
- ChampignonRare60points
- ChangRare60points
Why these answers count
Only 32 of the 758 recorded answers fell below the 60-point threshold, so almost anything valid scored something; the real contest was rarity. The single 100-point entry, Chhurpi, is a hard dried dairy product from the Himalayas, the sort of term almost nobody produces without having eaten it. Everything else in the published top group of 85-pointers is recognisable but regionally specific: Chaas, the Indian buttermilk; Chakalaka, a South African relish; Chakhokhbili, a Georgian stew; Chacolí, a wine of the Basque country; Chajá, a Uruguayan layered dessert. Each is attestable, each requires familiarity with one particular tradition. The 48 entries at 60 points form the bottom of the top tier and read like the more accessible end of the same spectrum. The lesson: because correctness was nearly universal, points tracked how unlikely your answer was to sit on another player's list, so obscure transliterations beat familiar staples.