Shapes

Synonyms for fold

The synonym for fold recorded in this bank is bend, in the sense "an angular or rounded shape made by folding". 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 3 puzzles

The synonym for fold

bendnoun, in the sense "an angular or rounded shape made by folding"

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 fold is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineShapes

an angular or rounded shape made by folding

A fold in the napkin.

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

The true synonym

bend

Same sentence, swapped: A bend in the napkin.

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 fold is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

faithful
flock
jog

Where fold turns up in the game

fold 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 fold is the trap

openverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is spread, in the sense "spread out or open from a closed or folded state", with fold sitting one tile away.
bendnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is twist, in the sense "a circular segment of a curve", and fold is one of the three tiles that lose.
hoistverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is heave, in the sense "to raise something heavy, often using effort or a mechanism", and fold is on the board beside it.

Play fold

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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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