Name a language with more than 50 million total speakers

Last seen Dive #28. 37 accepted answers on the published sheet.

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Hints

Hint 1. 37 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 8 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Amharic

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Bhojpuri · 85 pts

Best safe pick
Bhojpuri Deep Cut 85 pts

Ranked by rarity × how easy it is to type in 25 seconds. Too Clever answers are treated as risky.

Best rare answers

  • Bhojpuri 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Hausa 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Kannada 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Marathi 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Pashto 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Telugu 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Wu Chinese 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Nigerian Pidgin 100 pts · One in a Krillion

Strong alternatives

  • Amharic 60 pts
  • Bengali 60 pts
  • Gujarati 60 pts
  • Indonesian 60 pts
  • Malay 60 pts
  • Persian 60 pts
  • Punjabi 60 pts
  • Swahili 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Arabic 10
  • English 10
  • French 10
  • Mandarin 10
  • Spanish 10

All accepted answers

Prompt 1 of 1

Name a language with more than 50 million total speakers

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 8 ● Rare · 12 ● Schooler · 9 ● Too Clever · 2 ● Plankton · 5
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Nigerian Pidgin +100
Deep Cut +85 8 answers — tap to reveal
  • Bhojpuri +85
  • Egyptian Arabic +85
  • Hausa +85
  • Kannada +85
  • Marathi +85
  • Pashto +85
  • Telugu +85
  • Wu Chinese +85
Rare +60 12 answers — tap to reveal
  • Amharic +60
  • Bengali +60
  • Gujarati +60
  • Indonesian +60
  • Malay +60
  • Persian +60
  • Punjabi +60
  • Swahili +60
  • Tamil +60
  • Thai +60
  • Urdu +60
  • Vietnamese +60
Schooler +30 9 answers — tap to reveal
  • German +30
  • Hindi +30
  • Italian +30
  • Japanese +30
  • Korean +30
  • Portuguese +30
  • Russian +30
  • Tagalog +30
  • Turkish +30
Too Clever +15 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Cantonese +15
  • Javanese +15
Plankton +10 5 answers — tap to reveal
  • Arabic +10
  • English +10
  • French +10
  • Mandarin +10
  • Spanish +10