A foreign word with no single English equivalent
How many answers can you give to “A foreign word with no single English equivalent”? OnlyClick knows 60 of them, and rewards the ones other people miss. The answers that come to mind first are Schadenfreude, Hygge and Saudade. They count, but they keep you close to the ground. It is a fairly short list: only 15 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
Run through the alphabet in your head. It is slow, but it finds the words that do not come to mind by themselves. You will find it in stage 38, “Word Souvenirs”, of the Words mission. The first stages of every mission are free, and later stages come with the full mission.
PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- Schadenfreude
- Hygge
- Saudade
- Wanderlust
- Fernweh
- Wabi-sabi
- Ikigai
- Gezellig
- Sisu
- Lagom
- Fika
- Komorebi
- Tsundoku
- Mamihlapinatapai
- Ubuntu
These are the 15 answers we rate as most common, out of the 60 we know. They score the least. The other 45, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 60 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 9 |
| THE CROWD | 11 |
| SOME | 12 |
| A FEW | 13 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 11 |
| ONLY YOU | 4 |
The rarer your answer, the farther your rocket flies. Rarity is our own estimate of how few people would think of an answer. How to play.
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