Money

Synonyms for buy

The synonym for buy recorded in this bank is steal, in the sense "an advantageous purchase". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for buy

stealnoun, in the sense "an advantageous purchase"

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

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsMoney

an advantageous purchase

The stock was a real buy at that price.

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

The true synonym

steal

Same sentence, swapped: The stock was a real steal at that price.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where buy stands in the sentence above.

welcome
trust
fix

Where buy turns up in the game

buy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 buy is the trap

winverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is gain, in the sense "win something through one's efforts", and buy is on the board beside it.
understandverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is infer, in the sense "believe to be the case", and buy is on the board beside it.

Play buy

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so buy 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

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

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