Time

Synonyms for flash

The synonym for flash recorded in this bank is instant, in the sense "a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)". 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 · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for flash

instantnoun, in the sense "a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and flash carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineTime

a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

If I had the chance, I'd do it in a flash.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

instant

Same sentence, swapped: If I had the chance, I'd do it in a instant.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot flash is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

flare
fanfare
shine

Where flash turns up in the game

flash 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 flash is the trap

intendverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is mean, in the sense "mean or intend to express or convey", and flash is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play flash

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

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