Communication
Synonyms for bill
Synonyms for bill: account, peak and poster. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for bill
Interchangeable with bill, one per sense
Audited under bill's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one bill carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name bill as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- posterposter is a noun in the sense "a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement"
two of these come from bill's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
He paid his bill and left.
bill in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The waiter dropped the bill on the table after clearing the dessert plates.
- She reviewed the bill line by line before mailing the contractor a check.
How it behaves: Bill usually functions as a direct object after verbs like pay, settle, dispute, or itemize, and appears in everyday commercial and household registers.
The true synonym
account
Same sentence, swapped: He paid his account and left.
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.
- card
- measure
- present
a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
He pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead.
The true synonym
peak
Same sentence, swapped: He pulled down the peak of his cap and trudged ahead.
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.
- card
- note
- present
Where bill turns up in the game
bill is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where bill is the trap
- accountnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is explanation, in the sense "a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc", and bill is one of the three tiles that lose.
- notenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is tone, in the sense "a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound", so bill is there to be ruled out.
Play bill
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bill 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 communication 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. bill carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.