Events

Synonyms for accident

The synonym for accident recorded in this bank is stroke, in the sense "anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for accident

strokenoun, in the sense "anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day accident is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsEvents

anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause

It was due to an accident or fortuity.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

stroke

Same sentence, swapped: It was due to an stroke or fortuity.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where accident stands in the sentence above.

finish
beginning
experience

Where accident turns up in the game

accident is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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commemorateverbhonorto honor the memory of something with a ceremony or eventFoothillsHas a reason line commenceverbbeginto begin or startFoothillsHas a reason line currentnounflowdominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideasFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line disasternountragedyan event resulting in great loss and misfortuneFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line jinglenounjanglea metallic soundRidgelineHas a reason line joltnounshocka sudden jarring impactRidgelineHas a reason line jubileenounfestivitya celebration marking a significant anniversaryTreelineHas a reason line throughadjectivedonehaving finished or arrived at completionFoothills

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