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Synonyms for earshot

The synonym for earshot recorded in this bank is hearing, in the sense "the range within which a voice can be heard". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for earshot

hearingnoun, in the sense "the range within which a voice can be heard"

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

The sensenounTier 4, High CampPlaces

the range within which a voice can be heard

The children were told to stay within earshot.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

hearing

Same sentence, swapped: The children were told to stay within hearing.

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 earshot in the sentence quoted.

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Where earshot turns up in the game

earshot is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where earshot is the trap

hearingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is audience, in the sense "an opportunity to state your case and be heard", and earshot is one of the three tiles that lose.
hearingnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is audition, in the sense "the ability to hear", and earshot is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play earshot

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

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