Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for confirmation

Synonyms for confirmation: check and ratification. 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.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun

The 2 synonyms for confirmation

Interchangeable with confirmation in this sense

Audited under confirmation's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one confirmation carries in that sense.

checknoun, in the sense "additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name confirmation as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

ratificationratification is a noun in the sense "making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it"

one of these comes from confirmation's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineThinking and knowing

additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

Fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory.

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

The true synonym

check

Same sentence, swapped: Fossils provided further check of the evolutionary theory.

Close but different

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

ratification
visa
backing

Where confirmation turns up in the game

confirmation is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play confirmation

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so confirmation 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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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