Communication

Synonyms for blame

Synonyms for blame: rap and incrimination. 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.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 2 senses · noun · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for blame

rapnoun, in the sense "a reproach for some lapse or misdeed"
incriminationnoun, in the sense "an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed"

All two are filed under blame's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 2, TreelineCommunication

a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

He took the blame for it.

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

The true synonym

rap

Same sentence, swapped: He took the rap for it.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

suit
honor
charge

Sense 2 of 2nounTier 5, SummitCommunication

an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed

The police laid the blame on the driver.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

incrimination

Same sentence, swapped: The police laid the incrimination on the driver.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

information
knock
preferment

Where blame turns up in the game

blame 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where blame is the trap

absolveverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is free, in the sense "let off the hook", so blame is there to be ruled out.

Play blame

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so blame 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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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The ring widens as it goes, from communication at Treeline outward to the whole bank.

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The same bank, read from both sides

blame is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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