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Synonyms for coincide
The synonym for coincide recorded in this bank is align, in the sense "to happen at the same time as something else". 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 coincide
- alignverb, in the sense "to happen at the same time as something else"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for coincide.
to happen at the same time as something else
Her birthday happens to coincide with the national holiday.
The true synonym
align
Same sentence, swapped: Her birthday happens to align with the national holiday.
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 coincide is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- precede
- differ
- vary
Where coincide turns up in the game
coincide 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where coincide is the trap
- backfireverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is backlash, in the sense "come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect", with coincide sitting one tile away.
Play coincide
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so coincide reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other time words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. coincide carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.