Words trivia
Name an animal with a three-letter name
Everyone has a first answer to “Name an animal with a three-letter name”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 66 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Cat
- Dog
- Pig
- Cow
- Rat
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Fox
- Owl
- Bee
- Ant
- Emu
- Yak
- Gnu
- Bat
- Eel
- Elk
- Hen
- Ram
- Ape
- Ewe
- Hog
- Cod
- Fly
- Doe
- Sow
- Jay
- Cub
- Pup
- Koi
- Boa
- Bug
How deep does “Name an animal with a three-letter name” go?
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsCat · Dog · Pig
- Below the Surface25 answers · 25 ptsFox · Owl · Bee …
- The Deep22 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 22 answers starting with A, C, D, E, G, H, I, K, M, N, P, R and T. The Abyss has 13 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 66 answers in total, every one of them a single word.
- Shortest: “Ani”. Longest: “Yak”.
- A, C and D are the most common first letters; together they start 27% of the answers.
- 1 answers can be typed more than one way: “Zho” counts as Dzo.
How to go deeper
- Start with A: 6 of the answers begin with it.
- Cat, Dog and Pig 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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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name an animal with a three-letter name”?
- The usual first answers are Cat, Dog, Pig, Cow and Rat. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name an animal with a three-letter name”?
- 66 in all: 5 on The Tip, 25 Below the Surface, 22 in The Deep, 13 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name an animal with a three-letter name” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ani” and the longest is “Yak”.
- How hard is “Name an animal with a three-letter name”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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