Materials

Synonyms for earth

The synonym for earth recorded in this bank is ground, in the sense "the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for earth

groundnoun, in the sense "the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface"

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

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsMaterials

the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface

They dug into the earth outside the church.

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

The true synonym

ground

Same sentence, swapped: They dug into the ground outside the church.

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 earth in the sentence quoted.

rock
paper
air

Where earth turns up in the game

earth is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 earth is the trap

affairnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is thing, in the sense "a vaguely specified concern", so earth is there to be ruled out.
landnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is farming, in the sense "agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life", so earth is there to be ruled out.

Play earth

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so earth 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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flakeverbpeelto come away from a surface in small thin piecesFoothillsHas a reason line fragmentedverbshatteredbroke apart into numerous small piecesFoothillsHas a reason line ingotnounbara block of metal cast into a convenient shape for storage or transportFoothillsHas a reason line spliceverbjointo join two ends of material together to form a continuous lengthFoothillsHas a reason line waterproofadjectiveimpermeablepreventing water from passing throughRidgelineHas a reason line abradedverbchafedworn away gradually by friction or rubbingRidgelineHas a reason line abrasiveadjectivegrittyrough enough to scrape or wear away a surface by frictionTreelineHas a reason line swiftlyadverbrapidlyquickly, at high speedFoothillsHas a reason line

A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

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