Words trivia
Name a word that means big
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a word that means big”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 65 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Right, but shallow: 10 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Large
- Huge
- Giant
- Enormous
- Massive
- Gigantic
- Vast
- Great
- Immense
- Colossal
The next answers people reach for
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Mammoth
- Jumbo
- Humongous
- Whopping
- Titanic
- Tremendous
- Gargantuan
- Monumental
- Hulking
- Bulky
- Substantial
- Sizeable
- Considerable
- Mega
- Epic
- Mighty
- Behemoth
- Elephantine
- Towering
- Mountainous
- Ginormous
How deep does “Name a word that means big” go?
- The Tip10 answers · 10 ptsLarge · Huge · Giant
- Below the Surface21 answers · 25 ptsMammoth · Jumbo · Humongous …
- The Deep28 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss5 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 28 answers starting with A, B, C, E, G, H, K, L, O, P, S, T, V and W. The Abyss has 5 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 65 answers in total, 1 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Epic”. Longest: “Thumping great”.
- G, M and B are the most common first letters; together they start 32% of the answers.
- 1 answers can be typed more than one way: “Sizable” counts as Sizeable.
How to go deeper
- Start with G: 8 of the answers begin with it.
- Large, Huge and Giant are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Borrow from a field you know: science, music and sport are full of -ology words, -ship words and rhymes.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a word that means big”?
- The usual first answers are Large, Huge, Giant, Enormous and Massive. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a word that means big”?
- 65 in all: 10 on The Tip, 21 Below the Surface, 28 in The Deep, 5 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a word that means big” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Epic” and the longest is “Thumping great”.
- How hard is “Name a word that means big”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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