Money

Synonyms for earnings

The synonym for earnings recorded in this bank is pay, in the sense "something that remunerates". 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 · noun

The synonym for earnings

paynoun, in the sense "something that remunerates"

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

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineMoney

something that remunerates

They saved a quarter of all their earnings.

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

The true synonym

pay

Same sentence, swapped: They saved a quarter of all their pay.

Close but different

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

pension
annuity
store

Where earnings turns up in the game

earnings 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 earnings

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so earnings 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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