Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for albatross

The synonym for albatross recorded in this bank is millstone, in the sense "something that hinders or handicaps". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for albatross

millstonenoun, in the sense "something that hinders or handicaps"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and albatross carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampThinking and knowing

something that hinders or handicaps

She was an albatross around his neck.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

millstone

Same sentence, swapped: She was an millstone around his neck.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for albatross in the sentence quoted.

straitjacket
obstruction
bind

Where albatross turns up in the game

albatross is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where albatross is the trap

obstaclenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is obstruction, in the sense "something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted", and albatross is on the board beside it.

Play albatross

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so albatross 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. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. albatross carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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