Prompt 6 of 7
Name a unit of distance
285 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Barleycorn— Shoe sizes still step up by one third-inch barleycorn.
85 ptsDeep Cut261 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Actus
- Admiralty mile
- Agate
- Akaina
- Ald
- Alen
- Altuve
- Amah
- Angula
- Arabic mile
- Arpent
- Arsh
- Arshin
- Atomo
- Attometer
- Attoparsec
- Aune
- Bahar
- Bamboo
- Barid
- Basic module
- Beard-second
- Beer
- Biblical mile
- Bo
- Bohr radius
- Bolt
- Braccio
- Brasse
- Bu
- Burmese league
- Cable
- Canna
- Catena
- Cavezzo
- Centisome
- Chain— Sixty-six feet, the length surveyors dragged across America.
- Cham am
- Chi
- Cho
- Cicero
- Classical electron radius
- Compton wavelength
- Cortena
- Cot
- Covado
- Croatian mile
- Cuadra
- Cun
- Dam
- Danish mile
- Danna
- Day's journey
- Decameter
- Decempeda
- Decima
- Depa
- Dhanusha
- Dhira
- Didot point
- Digit
- Duim
- Dutch mile
- Earth radius
- Ell
- Elle
- Em
- En
- Endaze
- Etto
- Exameter
- Fall
- Femtometer
- Fen
- Finger
- Fistmele
- Fjärdingsväg
- Fuss
- Fut
- Gaz
- Geographical mile
- German mile
- Ghalwah
- Gigameter
- Girah
- Hair's breadth
- Hank
- Hao
- Hasta
- Hebdometre
- Hectometer
- Helium light band
- Himetric
- Hiro
- Horse length
- Hu
- Hubble length
- Hungarian mile
- Hvat
- Irish mile
- Italian mile
- Ja
- Jo
- Jow
- Jupiter radius
- Kadam
- Kadem
- Ken
- Keub
- Khet
- Klafter
- Kondylos
- Kos
- Krabiat
- Kulaç
- Kush
- Lachter
- Lan
- Lawka
- Lea
- Legua
- Li— Chinese unit standardized at exactly 500 meters in 1929.
- Lichas
- Lieue
- Light-day
- Light-hour
- Light-minute
- Light-month
- Light-nanosecond
- Light-second
- Light-week
- Ligne
- Line
- Link
- Lokot
- Lunar distance
- Marhala
- Megalithic yard
- Megameter
- Metric mile
- Mickey
- Mil
- Mo
- Muthi
- Myriameter
- Nail
- Nalva
- Ngu
- Ninda
- Nio
- Orgyia
- Örtöö
- Ottoman mile
- Pace
- Pagam
- Palm
- Palmo
- Parasang
- Paris point
- Pes
- Petameter
- Phyeam
- Pic
- Pica
- Picometer
- Piranggot
- Planck length
- Plethron
- Point
- Poppyseed
- Portuguese mile
- Posta
- Potrzebie
- Pous
- Ptolemaic mile
- Pyad
- Pygme
- Pyramid inch
- Qabda
- Qama
- Quartier
- Quectometer
- Quettameter
- Raso
- Rast
- Reed
- Remen
- Ri
- Rin
- Rod
- Roman mile
- Ronnameter
- Rontometer
- Rope
- Royal cubit
- Russian mile
- Rute
- Sabbath day's journey
- Sai
- Sana lamjel
- Saundaungs
- Sazhen
- Scandinavian mile
- Scandinavian nautical mile
- Schoenus
- Scots mile
- Sea mile
- Seir
- Sen
- Shackle
- Shaftment
- Shaku
- Sheppey
- Si
- Siriometer
- Skein
- Sok
- Solar radius
- Span
- Spanish mile
- Spat
- Stadion
- Staje
- Steinkast
- Step
- Stoney length
- Sun
- Survey foot
- Ta
- Tac
- Talampakan
- Terameter
- Thread
- Thuoc
- Tlalcuahuitl
- Tohoi
- Toise
- Trabucco
- Twip
- Uncia
- Usaba
- Ush
- Vara
- Vershok
- Verst— Russia's old mile, a little over a kilometer.
- Virsta
- Wa
- Wei
- Welsh mile
- X unit
- Yamh
- Yin
- Yoch
- Yoctometer
- Yojana
- Yot
- Yottameter
- Zeptometer
- Zettameter
- Zhang
- Zoll
60 ptsRare13 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Angstrom
- Astronomical unit
- Cubit— Noah's ark was measured in these.
- Decimeter
- Fathom
- Furlong
- Hand
- Klick— Military slang for a kilometer, accepted here as a unit.
- League— Twenty thousand of them, under the sea.
- Micron
- Nanometer
- Parsec— Han Solo bragged in parsecs, which measure 3.26 light-years.
- Smoot— Harvard Bridge measures 364.4 of him, plus one ear.
30 ptsSchooler3 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Light-year
- Millimeter
- Nautical mile
10 ptsPlankton7 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Centimeter
- Foot
- Inch
- Kilometer
- Meter
- Mile
- Yard