Movement

Synonyms for fly

The synonym for fly recorded in this bank is wing, in the sense "travel through the air". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for fly

wingverb, in the sense "travel through the air"

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

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsMovement

travel through the air

Geese fly south before the first frost.

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

The true synonym

wing

Same sentence, swapped: Geese wing south before the first frost.

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.

fell
flee
blow

Where fly turns up in the game

fly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 fly is the trap

beginverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is start, in the sense "set in motion, cause to start", and fly is one of the three tiles that lose.
continueverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is keep, in the sense "allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature", and fly is on the board beside it.
crashnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is smash, in the sense "the act of colliding with something", and fly is on the board beside it.

Play fly

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fly 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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

fly 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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