Contact and joining

Synonyms for dip

The synonym for dip recorded in this bank is plunge, in the sense "immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for dip

plungeverb, in the sense "immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day dip is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineContact and joining

immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate

Dip the brush into the paint.

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

The true synonym

plunge

Same sentence, swapped: Plunge the brush into the paint.

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 dip in the sentence quoted.

dim
duck
soak

Where dip turns up in the game

dip is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 dip is the trap

inclinationnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is tendency, in the sense "a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect", so dip is there to be ruled out.

Play dip

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dip 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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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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