Qualities

Synonyms for awry

The synonym for awry recorded in this bank is wonky, in the sense "turned or twisted toward one side". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for awry

wonkyadjective, in the sense "turned or twisted toward one side"

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 awry is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineQualities

turned or twisted toward one side

The picture on the wall was slightly awry.

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The true synonym

wonky

Same sentence, swapped: The picture on the wall was slightly wonky.

Close but different

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

haywire
disorganized
unsettled

Where awry turns up in the game

awry is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play awry

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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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