Events
Synonyms for annually
The synonym for annually recorded in this bank is yearly, in the sense "once every year". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for annually
- yearlyadverb, in the sense "once every year"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and annually carries one sense so far.
once every year
The festival is held annually in the town square.
The true synonym
yearly
Same sentence, swapped: The festival is held yearly in the town square.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- briefly
- publicly
- locally
Where annually turns up in the game
annually 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where annually is the trap
- aplentyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is galore, in the sense "in abundance; in large quantities (used after the noun it modifies)", so annually is there to be ruled out.
Play annually
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so annually reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other events words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. annually carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.