Name an African country’s most-spoken language.

What we would type in 25 seconds — rarity × spelling speed, not a dump of the public list.

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25-second pick · +100

Oshiwambo One in a Krillion

9 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 35 accepted answers on the sheet

Go past the first country or city a classroom map would show. We would type Oshiwambo: One in a Krillion, +100, 9 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Arabic, English, French, or Swahili — those are Plankton. It is also the One in a Krillion on this sheet, so the rare pick and the typeable pick are the same.

Skip Arabic · English · French · Swahili

Hints

Hint 1. 35 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 9 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Bambara

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Oshiwambo · 100 pts

Best safe pick
Oshiwambo One in a Krillion 100 pts

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

Best rare answers

  • Oshiwambo 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Mooré 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Dinka 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Krio 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Mauritian Creole 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Seychellois Creole 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Cape Verdean Creole 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Bambara 60 pts
  • Bemba 60 pts
  • Chichewa 60 pts
  • Comorian 60 pts
  • Fula 60 pts
  • Hausa 60 pts
  • Kirundi 60 pts
  • Luganda 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

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

  • Arabic 10
  • English 10
  • French 10
  • Swahili 10

Public accepted list

Same buckets the game published. We do not re-grade. The pick above is the plan; this block is the record.

Prompt 1 of 1

Name an African country’s most-spoken language.

● One in a Krillion · 2 ● Deep Cut · 6 ● Rare · 19 ● Schooler · 4 ● Plankton · 4
One in a Krillion +100 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Mooré +100 Burkina Faso's Mossi tongue outtalks French there by two to one.
  • Oshiwambo +100 Nearly half of Namibia's households speak it at home.
Deep Cut +85 6 answers — tap to reveal
  • Cape Verdean Creole +85
  • Dinka +85
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole +85
  • Krio +85
  • Mauritian Creole +85
  • Seychellois Creole +85
Rare +60 19 answers — tap to reveal
  • Bambara +60
  • Bemba +60
  • Chichewa +60
  • Comorian +60
  • Fula +60
  • Hausa +60
  • Kinyarwanda +60
  • Kirundi +60
  • Luganda +60
  • Malagasy +60
  • Mandinka +60
  • Sango +60
  • Sesotho +60
  • Setswana +60
  • Shona +60
  • Spanish +60
  • Swazi +60
  • Tigrinya +60
  • Wolof +60
Schooler +30 4 answers — tap to reveal
  • Amharic +30
  • Portuguese +30
  • Somali +30
  • Zulu +30
Plankton +10 4 answers — tap to reveal
  • Arabic +10
  • English +10
  • French +10
  • Swahili +10