Name an animal that has an X in its name

Last seen Dive #46. 468 accepted answers on the published sheet.

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Hints

Hint 1. 468 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 7 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Dracorex

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Xenopus · 100 pts

Best safe pick
Xenopus 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

  • Xenopus 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Addax 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Aetonyx 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Altispinax 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Alxasaurus 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Ambopteryx 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Amerifax 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Amphioxus 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Dracorex 60 pts
  • Hyrax 60 pts
  • Ibex 60 pts
  • Oryx 60 pts
  • Oxpecker 60 pts
  • Raptorex 60 pts
  • Vixen 60 pts
  • Waxwing 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

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

  • Fox 10
  • Lynx 10
  • Ox 10

All accepted answers

Prompt 1 of 1

Name an animal that has an X in its name

● One in a Krillion · 2 ● Deep Cut · 435 ● Rare · 18 ● Schooler · 9 ● Too Clever · 1 ● Plankton · 3
One in a Krillion +100 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Xenopus +100
  • Xerces blue butterfly +100
Deep Cut +85 435 answers — tap to reveal
  • Addax +85
  • Aetonyx +85
  • Alexander Archipelago wolf +85
  • Alexandrine parakeet +85
  • Altex rabbit +85
  • Altispinax +85
  • Alxasaurus +85
  • Ambopteryx +85
  • Amerifax +85
  • Amphioxus +85
  • Animantarx +85
  • Arnoux's beaked whale +85
  • Astrex rabbit +85
  • Auxois +85
  • Axelrod's rainbowfish +85
  • Axios horse +85
  • Axis deer +85
  • Ba Xuyen +85
  • Baryonyx +85
  • Bay lynx +85
  • Becklespinax +85
  • Beltex +85
  • Bigeyed sixgill shark +85
  • Black-rumped waxbill +85
  • Blue Texel +85
  • Blue waxbill +85
  • Bonxie +85
  • Borax Lake chub +85
  • Box crab +85
  • Box-headed blood bee +85
  • Boxador +85
  • Boxelder bug +85
  • Boxer crab +85
  • Boxer pupfish +85
  • Boxer shrimp +85
  • Boxerdoodle +85
  • Boxfish +85
  • Boxlip mullet +85
  • Boxsky +85
  • Boxweiler +85
  • Buxton's jird +85
  • Cambodian forest ox +85
  • Caudipteryx +85
  • Chartreux +85
  • Chinese Guoxia +85
  • Chryxus arctic +85
  • Chuxiongosaurus +85
  • Coburg Fox sheep +85
  • Cornish rex +85
  • Coturnix quail +85
  • Cretan ibex +85
  • Crucifix frog +85
  • Cruxicheiros +85
  • Culex mosquito +85
  • Daoxian goose +85
  • Daxiatitan +85
  • Desert lynx +85
  • Desert Lynx cat +85
  • Devon rex +85
  • Dexter cattle +85
  • Dixie chub +85
  • Dogue de Bordeaux +85
  • Donax clam +85
  • Doxie +85
  • Doxiepoo +85
  • Draconyx +85
  • Dzharaonyx +85
  • Ekrixinatosaurus +85
  • Elopteryx +85
  • Eosinopteryx +85
  • Epidexipteryx +85
  • Erbi Txakur +85
  • Essex pig +85
  • Essex skipper +85
  • Excalibosaurus +85
  • Exclamatory paradise whydah +85
  • Executioner wasp +85
  • Exlana +85
  • Exmoor Horn sheep +85
  • Exotic shorthair +85
  • Exuma Island iguana +85
  • Fenix lobster +85
  • Firefox +85
  • Flying fox fish +85
  • Foldex +85
  • Fox coral +85
  • Fox kestrel +85
  • Fox moth +85
  • Fox shark +85
  • Fox snake +85
  • Fox sparrow +85
  • Fox squirrel +85
  • Fox tapeworm +85
  • Fox's weaver +85
  • Foxface rabbitfish +85
  • Foxy cisticola +85
  • Foxy lark +85
  • Fylax +85
  • Galaxias +85
  • Galaxy coral +85
  • Galaxy rasbora +85
  • German rex +85
  • Gnathovorax +85
  • Golden Dox +85
  • Gondwanax +85
  • Gongxianosaurus +85
  • Green lynx spider +85
  • Griffon Bruxellois +85
  • Grunting ox +85
  • Gryponyx +85
  • Gulf of Mexico whale +85
  • Harlan's muskox +85
  • Hatzegopteryx +85
  • Hesperonyx +85
  • Hexaprotodon +85
  • Hexi Cashmere goat +85
  • Hexing +85
  • Hexinlusaurus +85
  • Highland Lynx +85
  • Huaxiagnathus +85
  • Huaxiasaurus +85
  • Huaxiazhoulong +85
  • Huxleysaurus +85
  • Invictarx +85
  • Ixworth chicken +85
  • Jaxartosaurus +85
  • Jiangxisaurus +85
  • Jiangxititan +85
  • Jinfengopteryx +85
  • Jurapteryx +85
  • King of Saxony bird-of-paradise +85
  • Kulindapteryx +85
  • Lac La Croix Indian pony +85
  • Latxa +85
  • Lavender waxbill +85
  • Laxmann's shrew +85
  • Lexovisaurus +85
  • Luxembourg Warmblood +85
  • Lynx cowrie +85
  • Lynx point Siamese +85
  • Lynx rabbit +85
  • Lynx spider +85
  • Lythronax +85
  • Manipulonyx +85
  • Manx Loaghtan +85
  • Manx Rumpy +85
  • Manx shearwater +85
  • Maxakalisaurus +85
  • Maximilian's snake-necked turtle +85
  • Maxwell's duiker +85
  • Megacervixosaurus +85
  • Megalonyx +85
  • Meraxes +85
  • Mesonyx +85
  • Mexican alligator lizard +85
  • Mexican barracuda +85
  • Mexican beaded lizard +85
  • Mexican black kingsnake +85
  • Mexican blindcat +85
  • Mexican bluewing +85
  • Mexican burrowing toad +85
  • Mexican chickadee +85
  • Mexican cottontail +85
  • Mexican duck +85
  • Mexican dwarf crayfish +85
  • Mexican eagle +85
  • Mexican fireleg tarantula +85
  • Mexican free-tailed bat +85
  • Mexican golden trout +85
  • Mexican grizzly bear +85
  • Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine +85
  • Mexican hogfish +85
  • Mexican hognose snake +85
  • Mexican hornshark +85
  • Mexican howler monkey +85
  • Mexican jackrabbit +85
  • Mexican jay +85
  • Mexican jumping bean moth +85
  • Mexican lookdown +85
  • Mexican milk snake +85
  • Mexican mole lizard +85
  • Mexican molly +85
  • Mexican mouse opossum +85
  • Mexican parrotlet +85
  • Mexican prairie dog +85
  • Mexican red-kneed tarantula +85
  • Mexican sheartail +85
  • Mexican spider monkey +85
  • Mexican spotted owl +85
  • Mexican tetra +85
  • Mexican vine snake +85
  • Mexican violetear +85
  • Mexican vole +85
  • Mexican whip-poor-will +85
  • Mexican woodrat +85
  • Mexidracon +85
  • Miniature Fox Terrier +85
  • Miracinonyx +85
  • Missouri Fox Trotter +85
  • Mixotoxodon +85
  • Moxotó goat +85
  • Murex +85
  • New Mexico whiptail +85
  • Ngexisaurus +85
  • Ningxiang pig +85
  • Novoolexandrian Draught +85
  • Oaxaca hummingbird +85
  • Oaxaca sparrow +85
  • Oaxacan small-headed rattlesnake +85
  • Onyx cowrie +85
  • Orange-cheeked waxbill +85
  • Osedax +85
  • Ox beetle +85
  • Ox-heart clam +85
  • Oxalaia +85
  • Oxeye dory +85
  • Oxeye herring +85
  • Oxeye scad +85
  • Oxeye tarpon +85
  • Oxford Down +85
  • Oxford Sandy and Black +85
  • Oxleyan pygmy perch +85
  • Oxyaena +85
  • Palaeoloxodon +85
  • Palaeopteryx +85
  • Paleoparadoxia +85
  • Paluxysaurus +85
  • Panchax +85
  • Panthera atrox +85
  • Paradox frog +85
  • Paradox goby +85
  • Paradoxical frog +85
  • Paragalaxias +85
  • Paraxenisaurus +85
  • Paxton's escolar +85
  • Pegomastax +85
  • Phoenix chicken +85
  • Phoenix petrel +85
  • Pigeon tremex +85
  • Pixie frog +85
  • Pixiebob +85
  • Plain xenops +85
  • Planicoxa +85
  • Polish Lynx pigeon +85
  • Polixenes arctic +85
  • Polyonax +85
  • Proplanicoxa +85
  • Protarchaeopteryx +85
  • Pteropelyx +85
  • Pyrrhuloxia +85
  • Qingxiusaurus +85
  • Red-billed leiothrix +85
  • Rex guinea pig +85
  • Rex rabbit +85
  • Rex sole +85
  • Rhinorex +85
  • Roux du Valais +85
  • Ruixinia +85
  • Sanxiasaurus +85
  • Saurophaganax +85
  • Saxaul sparrow +85
  • Saxon pigeon +85
  • Saxony duck +85
  • Scansoriopteryx +85
  • Scaphonyx +85
  • Scipionyx +85
  • Selkirk rex +85
  • Sellacoxa +85
  • Sex-link chicken +85
  • Sexton beetle +85
  • Sexy shrimp +85
  • Shanxia +85
  • Shixinggia +85
  • Shrub-ox +85
  • Silver Fox rabbit +85
  • Similicaudipteryx +85
  • Sinocalliopteryx +85
  • Sinosauropteryx +85
  • Six-banded armadillo +85
  • Six-belted clearwing +85
  • Six-eyed sand spider +85
  • Six-holed keyhole urchin +85
  • Six-lined racerunner +85
  • Six-spot burnet +85
  • Six-spotted fishing spider +85
  • Six-spotted tiger beetle +85
  • Six-tubercled Amazon River turtle +85
  • Six-wired bird-of-paradise +85
  • Sixbanded angelfish +85
  • Sixbar grouper +85
  • Sixbar wrasse +85
  • Sixfinger threadfin +85
  • Sixgill sawshark +85
  • Sixgill shark +85
  • Sixgill stingray +85
  • Sixline wrasse +85
  • Sixspine butterflyfish +85
  • Sixspot goby +85
  • Snuffbox mussel +85
  • Spinifex hopping mouse +85
  • Spinifex pigeon +85
  • Spinifexbird +85
  • Spiny box puffer +85
  • Spix's macaw +85
  • Spix's night monkey +85
  • Spix's whiptail +85
  • St. Croix anole +85
  • St. Croix ground lizard +85
  • St. Croix sheep +85
  • St. Croix snaketail +85
  • Stenopelix +85
  • Streaked xenops +85
  • Styxosaurus +85
  • Sussex cattle +85
  • Sussex chicken +85
  • Sussex rabbit +85
  • Sussex spaniel +85
  • Swee waxbill +85
  • Swiss Fox rabbit +85
  • Texacephale +85
  • Texan Pioneer +85
  • Texas alligator lizard +85
  • Texas antelope squirrel +85
  • Texas blind salamander +85
  • Texas blind snake +85
  • Texas brown tarantula +85
  • Texas cichlid +85
  • Texas coral snake +85
  • Texas garter snake +85
  • Texas Heeler +85
  • Texas horned lizard +85
  • Texas indigo snake +85
  • Texas kangaroo rat +85
  • Texas lyre snake +85
  • Texas night snake +85
  • Texas pocket gopher +85
  • Texas rat snake +85
  • Texas spiny lizard +85
  • Texas tortoise +85
  • Texasetes +85
  • Texel +85
  • Texon +85
  • Textile cone +85
  • Three-toed box turtle +85
  • Toxodon +85
  • Toxostome +85
  • Tucuxi +85
  • Tupuxuara +85
  • Tux-Zillertal +85
  • Tuxedo cat +85
  • Tuxedo darter +85
  • Tuxedo urchin +85
  • Tuxpan splitfin +85
  • Tuxtla quail-dove +85
  • Ural Rex +85
  • Uromastyx +85
  • Vallibonavenatrix +85
  • Vaux's swift +85
  • Verreaux's eagle +85
  • Verreaux's eagle owl +85
  • Verreaux's sifaka +85
  • Violet-eared waxbill +85
  • Vu Quang ox +85
  • Wanxi white goose +85
  • Wax moth +85
  • Wax scale +85
  • Waxbill +85
  • Waxeye +85
  • Waxy monkey tree frog +85
  • Wessex saddleback +85
  • White-throated oxylabes +85
  • Wiwaxia +85
  • Xalda +85
  • Xami hairstreak +85
  • Xanthippe's shrew +85
  • Xantic sargo +85
  • Xantus swimming crab +85
  • Xantus's becard +85
  • Xantus's hummingbird +85
  • Xantus's leaf-toed gecko +85
  • Xantus's murrelet +85
  • Xavier's greenbul +85
  • Xaxi Ardia +85
  • Xeme +85
  • Xenacanthus +85
  • Xenagama +85
  • Xenia coral +85
  • Xenicibis +85
  • Xenoceratops +85
  • Xenoposeidon +85
  • Xenops +85
  • Xenosaurus +85
  • Xenosmilus +85
  • Xenotarsosaurus +85
  • Xenovenator +85
  • Xerus +85
  • Xiangyunloong +85
  • Xianshanosaurus +85
  • Xiaoheishan slug-eater snake +85
  • Xiaosaurus +85
  • Xiaotingia +85
  • Xiasi dog +85
  • Xigou +85
  • Xilingol horse +85
  • Xinghesaurus +85
  • Xingtianosaurus +85
  • Xingu corydoras +85
  • Xingu River ray +85
  • Xingu scale-backed antbird +85
  • Xingu scythebill +85
  • Xingu silky anteater +85
  • Xingxiulong +85
  • Xinjiang Brown +85
  • Xinjiang Finewool +85
  • Xinjiang goat +85
  • Xinjiang ground-jay +85
  • Xinjiangovenator +85
  • Xinjiangtitan +85
  • Xiongguanlong +85
  • Xiphactinus +85
  • Xixianykus +85
  • Xixiasaurus +85
  • Xiyunykus +85
  • Xuanhanosaurus +85
  • Xuanhuaceratops +85
  • Xuanhuasaurus +85
  • Xuhai goat +85
  • Xunmenglong +85
  • Xupu goose +85
  • Xuthus swallowtail +85
  • Xuwulong +85
  • Yellow-spotted hyrax +85
  • Yunxianosaurus +85
  • Yuxisaurus +85
  • Zalmoxes +85
Rare +60 18 answers — tap to reveal
  • Archaeopteryx +60
  • Dracorex +60
  • Exmoor pony +60
  • Fox terrier +60
  • Hyrax +60
  • Ibex +60
  • Mexican wolf +60
  • Oryx +60
  • Oxpecker +60
  • Queen Alexandra's birdwing +60
  • Raptorex +60
  • Sphinx moth +60
  • Texas longhorn +60
  • Vixen +60
  • Waxwing +60
  • Wild ox +60
  • X-ray tetra +60
  • Xoloitzcuintli +60
Schooler +30 9 answers — tap to reveal
  • Box jellyfish +30
  • Box turtle +30
  • Boxer +30
  • Flying fox +30
  • Foxhound +30
  • Manx cat +30
  • Muskox +30
  • Sphynx cat +30
  • T. rex +30
Too Clever +15 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Axolotl +15
Plankton +10 3 answers — tap to reveal
  • Fox +10
  • Lynx +10
  • Ox +10