Words trivia
Name a word that means happy
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a word that means happy”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 67 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Glad
- Cheerful
- Joyful
- Pleased
- Content
- Delighted
- Thrilled
- Merry
- Jolly
- Elated
The next answers people reach for
These 20 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Ecstatic
- Overjoyed
- Blissful
- Upbeat
- Jovial
- Radiant
- Beaming
- Gleeful
- Euphoric
- Over the moon
- On cloud nine
- Tickled pink
- Buoyant
- Cheery
- Sunny
- Perky
- Chipper
- Gay
- Peppy
- Exuberant
How deep does “Name a word that means happy” go?
- The Tip10 answers · 10 ptsGlad · Cheerful · Joyful
- Below the Surface20 answers · 25 ptsEcstatic · Overjoyed · Blissful …
- The Deep28 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss8 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 B, C, E, G, H, J, L, M, P, R, S, W and Z. The Abyss has 8 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 67 answers in total, 6 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Gay”. Longest: “Chuffed to bits”.
- C, B and G are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
Getting below the surface
- Start with C: 11 of the answers begin with it.
- Glad, Cheerful and Joyful 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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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a word that means happy”?
- The usual first answers are Glad, Cheerful, Joyful, Pleased and Content. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a word that means happy”?
- 67 in all: 10 on The Tip, 20 Below the Surface, 28 in The Deep, 8 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a word that means happy” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Gay” and the longest is “Chuffed to bits”.
- How hard is “Name a word that means happy”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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