Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for distinguish

The synonym for distinguish recorded in this bank is tell, in the sense "mark as different". 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

The synonym for distinguish

tellverb, in the sense "mark as different"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for distinguish.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineThinking and knowing

mark as different

We distinguish several kinds of maple.

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

The true synonym

tell

Same sentence, swapped: We tell several kinds of maple.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where distinguish turns up in the game

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

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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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