People and roles

Synonyms for boss

The synonym for boss recorded in this bank is hirer, in the sense "a person responsible for hiring workers". 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 5, Summit · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 4 puzzles

The synonym for boss

hirernoun, in the sense "a person responsible for hiring workers"

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 boss is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 5, SummitPeople and roles

a person responsible for hiring workers

The boss hired three more men for the new job.

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

The true synonym

hirer

Same sentence, swapped: The hirer hired three more men for the new job.

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.

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husband
handle

Where boss turns up in the game

boss is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 boss is the trap

armnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is branch, in the sense "any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm", so boss is there to be ruled out.
rookienoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is newcomer, in the sense "a person new to a job, team, or activity", and boss is on the board beside it.
hotadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is raging, in the sense "characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement", and boss is one of the three tiles that lose.
coolnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is poise, in the sense "great coolness and composure under strain", and boss is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play boss

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so boss 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 same bank, read from both sides

boss is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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