The body

Synonyms for gut

The synonym for gut recorded in this bank is stomach, in the sense "the stomach or belly". 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 · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for gut

stomachnoun, in the sense "the stomach or belly"

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 gut is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsThe body

the stomach or belly

A dull ache spread through his gut after the greasy meal.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

stomach

Same sentence, swapped: A dull ache spread through his stomach after the greasy meal.

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

chest
throat
spine

Where gut turns up in the game

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

The puzzles where gut is the trap

palatenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is taste, in the sense "a person's sense of taste, especially as refined by experience", with gut sitting one tile away.
creeknoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is brook, in the sense "a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)", and gut is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play gut

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gut reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Closest first: other the body words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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