Qualities

Synonyms for alike

The synonym for alike recorded in this bank is like, in the sense "having the same or similar characteristics". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for alike

likeadjective, in the sense "having the same or similar characteristics"

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

The senseadjectiveTier 2, TreelineQualities

having the same or similar characteristics

All politicians are alike.

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

The true synonym

Same sentence, swapped: All politicians are like.

Close but different

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

constant
stable
smooth

Where alike turns up in the game

alike is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where alike is the trap

drawnadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is worn, in the sense "showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering", and alike is one of the three tiles that lose.
automaticadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is robotic, in the sense "resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine", with alike sitting one tile away.
equallyadverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is evenly, in the sense "in equal amounts or shares", with alike sitting one tile away.

Play alike

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so alike 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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One vocabulary, two jobs

alike is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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