Movement

Synonyms for flip

The synonym for flip recorded in this bank is toss, in the sense "lightly throw to see which side comes up". 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 · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for flip

tossverb, in the sense "lightly throw to see which side comes up"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day flip is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineMovement

lightly throw to see which side comes up

I may as well flip a coin to decide.

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

The true synonym

toss

Same sentence, swapped: I may as well toss a coin to decide.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where flip stands in the sentence above.

thumb
switch
twist

Where flip turns up in the game

flip 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where flip is the trap

switchverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is change, in the sense "lay aside, abandon, or leave for another", with flip sitting one tile away.
insolentadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is brazen, in the sense "unrestrained by convention or propriety", with flip sitting one tile away.
poleverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is punt, in the sense "propel with a pole", so flip is there to be ruled out.

Play flip

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so flip 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 same bank, read from both sides

flip is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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