Communication

Synonyms for flout

The synonym for flout recorded in this bank is scoff, in the sense "treat with contemptuous disregard". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for flout

scoffverb, in the sense "treat with contemptuous disregard"

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

The senseverbTier 4, High CampCommunication

treat with contemptuous disregard

Flout the rules.

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

The true synonym

scoff

Same sentence, swapped: Scoff the rules.

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.

discredit
reject
eliminate

Where flout turns up in the game

flout is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 flout

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