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Synonyms for bow

The synonym for bow recorded in this bank is stem, in the sense "front part of a vessel or aircraft". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for bow

stemnoun, in the sense "front part of a vessel or aircraft"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for bow.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineObjects

front part of a vessel or aircraft

He pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

stem

Same sentence, swapped: He pointed the stem of the boat toward the finish line.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot bow is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

arc
obeisance
frontal

Where bow turns up in the game

bow is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 bow is the trap

designnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is figure, in the sense "a decorative or artistic work", and bow is on the board beside it.
flapnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fuss, in the sense "an excited state of agitation", with bow sitting one tile away.

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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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