People and roles

Synonyms for dog

Synonyms for dog: heel and frump. 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 · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for dog

Interchangeable with dog in this sense

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

heelnoun, in the sense "someone who is morally reprehensible"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

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

frumpfrump is a noun in the sense "a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman"

The first group is filed under dog's own sense. The second reaches dog from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelinePeople and roles

someone who is morally reprehensible

You dirty dog.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

heel

Same sentence, swapped: You dirty heel.

Close but different

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

frank
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varlet

Where dog turns up in the game

dog 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where dog is the trap

bothernoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is pain, in the sense "something or someone that causes trouble", and dog is on the board beside it.

Play dog

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dog 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. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Closest first: other people and roles words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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The same bank, read from both sides

dog is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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