Food and drink

Synonyms for fritter

The synonym for fritter recorded in this bank is shoot, in the sense "spend frivolously and unwisely". 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 fritter

shootverb, in the sense "spend frivolously and unwisely"

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 fritter is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 4, High CampFood and drink

spend frivolously and unwisely

Fritter away one's inheritance.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

shoot

Same sentence, swapped: Shoot away one's inheritance.

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.

wanton
lavish
drink

Where fritter turns up in the game

fritter 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 fritter

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