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Synonyms for blanket

The synonym for blanket recorded in this bank is mantle, in the sense "anything that covers". 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 · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 4 puzzles

The synonym for blanket

mantlenoun, in the sense "anything that covers"

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

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineNature

anything that covers

There was a blanket of snow.

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

The true synonym

mantle

Same sentence, swapped: There was a mantle of snow.

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.

envelope
shell
comfort

Where blanket turns up in the game

blanket is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where blanket is the trap

wideadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is full, in the sense "having ample fabric", and blanket is on the board beside it.
broadadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is liberal, in the sense "showing or characterized by broad-mindedness", with blanket sitting one tile away.
covernoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is screening, in the sense "the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it", and blanket is one of the three tiles that lose.
wideadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is spacious, in the sense "very large in expanse or scope", and blanket is on the board beside it.

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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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