Nature
Synonyms for chancy
The synonym for chancy recorded in this bank is iffy, in the sense "subject to accident or chance or change". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for chancy
- iffyadjective, in the sense "subject to accident or chance or change"
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 chancy is audited in a second meaning.
subject to accident or chance or change
A chancy appeal at best.
The true synonym
iffy
Same sentence, swapped: A iffy appeal at best.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where chancy stands in the sentence above.
- hesitant
- hesitating
- wicked
Where chancy turns up in the game
chancy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 chancy is the trap
- indefinableadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is undefinable, in the sense "not capable of being precisely or readily described", with chancy sitting one tile away.
Play chancy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so chancy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from nature at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
chancy is an answer in 1 puzzle 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.