Words trivia
Name a word that rhymes with day
“Name a word that rhymes with day” is one of 22 words prompts in Icillion. Of its 160 accepted answers, 13 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.
- Say
- Play
- May
- Way
- Stay
- Hay
- Pay
- Ray
- Gray
- Bay
- Clay
- Away
- Okay
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Spray
- Stray
- Tray
- Sway
- Pray
- Prey
- Weigh
- Neigh
- Sleigh
- Slay
- Today
- Display
- Delay
- Obey
- Hooray
- Bouquet
- Ballet
- Buffet
- Café
- Essay
- Decay
- Betray
- Replay
- Relay
- Birthday
- Holiday
- Sunday
- Monday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Doorway
- Highway
- Hallway
- Railway
- Subway
- Runway
- Hearsay
- Mayday
Answers by level
- The Tip13 answers · 10 ptsSay · Play · May
- Below the Surface41 answers · 25 ptsSpray · Stray · Tray …
- The Deep92 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss13 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 92 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W and X. The Abyss has 13 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 160 answers in total, 1 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “DJ”. Longest: “Communiqué”.
- S, C and B are the most common first letters; together they start 31% of the answers.
- 23 answers can be typed more than one way: “Fiance” counts as Fiancé.
Getting below the surface
- Start with S: 19 of the answers begin with it.
- Say, Play and May are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think long: long words often hide the pattern you need, like the five vowels of “education” or “unquestionably”.
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What the words mean
Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a word that rhymes with day”?
- The usual first answers are Say, Play, May, Way and Stay. 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 day”?
- 160 in all: 13 on The Tip, 41 Below the Surface, 92 in The Deep, 13 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a word that rhymes with day” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “DJ” and the longest is “Communiqué”.
- How hard is “Name a word that rhymes with day”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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How deep does your knowledge go?
Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.
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