Communication

Synonyms for gravelly

The synonym for gravelly recorded in this bank is rough, in the sense "unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound". 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 · adjective

The synonym for gravelly

roughadjective, in the sense "unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound"

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

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampCommunication

unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

A gravelly voice.

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

The true synonym

rough

Same sentence, swapped: A rough voice.

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.

scraggly
monolithic
crystalline

Where gravelly turns up in the game

gravelly 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 gravelly

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