Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for fantasy

The synonym for fantasy recorded in this bank is phantasy, in the sense "imagination unrestricted by reality". 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 5, Summit · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for fantasy

phantasynoun, in the sense "imagination unrestricted by reality"

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

The sensenounTier 5, SummitThinking and knowing

imagination unrestricted by reality

A schoolgirl fantasy.

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

The true synonym

phantasy

Same sentence, swapped: A schoolgirl phantasy.

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 fantasy in the sentence quoted.

dreaming
romance
pipe

Where fantasy turns up in the game

fantasy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 fantasy is the trap

illusionnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is semblance, in the sense "an erroneous mental representation", so fantasy is there to be ruled out.

Play fantasy

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fantasy 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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The wrong tile gets explained too

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

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