Communication

Synonyms for add

The synonym for add recorded in this bank is total, in the sense "determine the sum of". 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 · verb · a wrong tile in 4 puzzles

The synonym for add

totalverb, in the sense "determine the sum of"

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 add is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsCommunication

determine the sum of

Add these three numbers and tell me the result.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

total

Same sentence, swapped: Total these three numbers and tell me the result.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where add turns up in the game

add is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where add is the trap

bringverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is get, in the sense "go or come after and bring or take back", with add sitting one tile away.
bringverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is take, in the sense "take something or somebody with oneself somewhere", with add sitting one tile away.
solveverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is resolve, in the sense "find the solution", and add is one of the three tiles that lose.
impartverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is give, in the sense "transmit (knowledge or skills)", and add is on the board beside it.

Play add

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so add reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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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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One vocabulary, two jobs

add is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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