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Synonyms for correct

Synonyms for correct: right and set. 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 1, Foothills · 2 senses · verb · 2 reason lines · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for correct

rightverb, in the sense "make right or correct"
setverb, in the sense "alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard"

All two are filed under correct's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2verbTier 1, FoothillsChange

make right or correct

Correct the mistakes.

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

The true synonym

right

Same sentence, swapped: Right the mistakes.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for correct in the sentence quoted.

discipline
decline
falsify

Sense 2 of 2verbTier 1, FoothillsChange

alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard

Correct the alignment of the front wheels.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

set

Same sentence, swapped: Set the alignment of the front wheels.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for correct in the sentence quoted.

discipline
compensate
blind

Where correct turns up in the game

correct is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. 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 correct is the trap

criticaladjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is decisive, in the sense "forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis", with correct sitting one tile away.

Play correct

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so correct 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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The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. correct carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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