People and roles
Synonyms for competition
Synonyms for competition: rival, contention and rivalry. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for competition
Interchangeable with competition in this sense
Audited under competition's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one competition carries in that sense.
- rivalnoun, in the sense "the contestant you hope to defeat"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name competition as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- contentioncontention is a noun in the sense "the act of competing as for profit or a prize"
- rivalryrivalry is a noun in the sense "an ongoing state of competing against another for the same goal"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under competition and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
the contestant you hope to defeat
He wanted to know what the competition was doing.
The true synonym
rival
Same sentence, swapped: He wanted to know what the rival was doing.
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 competition is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- contention
- winner
- loser
Where competition turns up in the game
competition 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 competition is the trap
- affairnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is occasion, in the sense "a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people", and competition is one of the three tiles that lose.
- eventnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is case, in the sense "a special set of circumstances", with competition sitting one tile away.
Play competition
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so competition 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 people and roles words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. competition carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.