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Synonyms for cliff

The synonym for cliff recorded in this bank is drop, in the sense "a steep high face of rock". 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 3 puzzles

The synonym for cliff

dropnoun, in the sense "a steep high face of rock"

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

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsNature

a steep high face of rock

The path ended at the edge of a steep cliff.

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

The true synonym

drop

Same sentence, swapped: The path ended at the edge of a steep drop.

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.

cave
shore
chain

Where cliff turns up in the game

cliff 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where cliff is the trap

bouldernoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is rock, in the sense "a large detached rock", with cliff sitting one tile away.
dunenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is mound, in the sense "a mound or ridge of wind-blown sand", and cliff is one of the three tiles that lose.
dropnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is drib, in the sense "a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)", with cliff sitting one tile away.

Play cliff

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cliff 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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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

cliff is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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