Contact and joining

Synonyms for finger

The synonym for finger recorded in this bank is thumb, in the sense "feel or handle with the fingers". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for finger

thumbverb, in the sense "feel or handle with the fingers"

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

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineContact and joining

feel or handle with the fingers

Finger the binding of the book.

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

The true synonym

thumb

Same sentence, swapped: Thumb the binding of the book.

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 finger in the sentence quoted.

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Where finger turns up in the game

finger is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 finger is the trap

mittnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is hand, in the sense "the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb", with finger sitting one tile away.

Play finger

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so finger 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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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

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