Wildcard trivia
Name a word that rhymes with "cake"
“Name a word that rhymes with "cake"” is one of 274 wildcard prompts in Icillion. Of its 86 accepted answers, 10 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Bake
- Lake
- Make
- Take
- Snake
- Wake
- Fake
- Rake
- Shake
- Break
One step down
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Steak
- Brake
- Flake
- Sake
- Stake
- Mistake
- Awake
- Quake
- Drake
- Ache
- Cupcake
- Pancake
- Milkshake
- Handshake
Answers by level
- The Tip10 answers · 10 ptsBake · Lake · Make
- Below the Surface14 answers · 25 ptsSteak · Brake · Flake …
- The Deep30 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss31 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 30 answers starting with B, C, D, F, H, J, K, L, N, O, P, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 31 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 86 answers in total, 11 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ache”. Longest: “Piece of cake”.
- S, B and C are the most common first letters; together they start 33% of the answers.
- 2 answers can be typed more than one way: “Sheik” counts as Sheikh.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with S: 14 of the answers begin with it.
- Bake, Lake and Make are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think of things, then of words: keys can be on a piano, on a map or off the coast of Florida.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a word that rhymes with "cake"”?
- The usual first answers are Bake, Lake, Make, Take and Snake. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a word that rhymes with "cake"”?
- 86 in all: 10 on The Tip, 14 Below the Surface, 30 in The Deep, 31 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a word that rhymes with "cake"” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ache” and the longest is “Piece of cake”.
- How hard is “Name a word that rhymes with "cake"”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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