Words trivia
Name an English word that ends in a double letter
“Name an English word that ends in a double letter” is one of 10 words prompts in Icillion. Of its 217 accepted answers, 5 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Ball
- Tree
- Egg
- Coffee
- Glass
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Kiss
- Jazz
- Buzz
- Cliff
- Add
- Inn
- Toffee
- Chess
- Bell
- Doll
- Hill
- Wall
- Shell
- Grass
- Dress
- Boss
- Class
- Bee
- Knee
- Free
- Zoo
- Too
- Off
- Stuff
- Fizz
- Miss
- Cross
- Fall
- Small
- Odd
Answers by level
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsBall · Tree · Egg
- Below the Surface30 answers · 25 ptsKiss · Jazz · Buzz …
- The Deep97 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss84 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 97 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V and W. The Abyss has 84 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 217 answers in total, every one of them a single word.
- Shortest: “Abb”. Longest: “Whippoorwill”.
- S, B and C are the most common first letters; together they start 30% of the answers.
- 10 answers can be typed more than one way: “Matinée” counts as Matinee.
How to go deeper
- Start with S: 26 of the answers begin with it.
- Ball, Tree and Egg are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Run the alphabet: most rules work with any first letter, so try each one in turn.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name an English word that ends in a double letter”?
- The usual first answers are Ball, Tree, Egg, Coffee and Glass. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name an English word that ends in a double letter”?
- 217 in all: 5 on The Tip, 30 Below the Surface, 97 in The Deep, 84 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name an English word that ends in a double letter” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Abb” and the longest is “Whippoorwill”.
- How hard is “Name an English word that ends in a double letter”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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