Communication

Synonyms for gossip

The synonym for gossip recorded in this bank is comment, in the sense "a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people". 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 · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for gossip

commentnoun, in the sense "a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people"

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

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineCommunication

a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people

The divorce caused much gossip.

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

The true synonym

comment

Same sentence, swapped: The divorce caused much comment.

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.

recital
debriefing
yarn

Where gossip turns up in the game

gossip 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where gossip is the trap

banternoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is teasing, in the sense "playful, teasing conversation exchanged for amusement", so gossip is there to be ruled out.
commentnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is input, in the sense "a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information", and gossip is on the board beside it.

Play gossip

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gossip 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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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

gossip is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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