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Synonyms for hammer

Synonyms for hammer: pound and forge. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 2 senses · noun and verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for hammer

poundnoun, in the sense "the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)"
forgeverb, in the sense "create by hammering"

All two are filed under hammer's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 2, TreelineActions

the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

The sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard.

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

The true synonym

pound

Same sentence, swapped: The sudden pound of fists caught him off guard.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for hammer in the sentence quoted.

cock
mallet
slap

Sense 2 of 2verbTier 2, TreelineMaking and creating

create by hammering

Hammer the silver into a bowl.

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

The true synonym

forge

Same sentence, swapped: Forge the silver into a bowl.

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.

shell
rage
sack

Where hammer turns up in the game

hammer is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where hammer is the trap

whipnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is lash, in the sense "a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object", and hammer is on the board beside it.

Play hammer

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hammer 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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The wrong tile gets explained too

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