Groups and collections

Synonyms for family

Synonyms for family: folk and fellowship. 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 · 2 senses · noun · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for family

folknoun, in the sense "people descended from a common ancestor"
fellowshipnoun, in the sense "an association of people who share common beliefs or activities"

All two are filed under family's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 2, TreelineGroups and collections

people descended from a common ancestor

His family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower.

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

The true synonym

folk

Same sentence, swapped: His folk has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

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side
body

Sense 2 of 2nounTier 3, RidgelineGroups and collections

an association of people who share common beliefs or activities

The message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family.

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

The true synonym

fellowship

Same sentence, swapped: The message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company fellowship.

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 family in the sentence quoted.

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mob
ring

Where family turns up in the game

family is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 family

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so family 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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crewnounhandsa group of people who work together to operate a ship, aircraft, or vehicle.TreelineHas a reason line disablednounhandicappedpeople collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicappedTreelineHas a reason line disbandverbdissolveto formally break up a group and send its members awayTreelineHas a reason line disperseverbscatterto break up and move apart in different directions, of a groupTreelineHas a reason line classnoundivisiona league ranked by qualityFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line cloudnounswarma group of many things in the air or on the groundRidgelineHas a reason line clubnounninea team of professional baseball players who play and travel togetherFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line spillnoun, verbfalla sudden drop from an upright positionTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line

The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. family carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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