Contact and joining

Synonyms for hang

The synonym for hang recorded in this bank is cling, in the sense "hold on tightly or tenaciously". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 4 puzzles

The synonym for hang

clingverb, in the sense "hold on tightly or tenaciously"

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 hang is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineContact and joining

hold on tightly or tenaciously

Hang on to your father's hands.

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

The true synonym

cling

Same sentence, swapped: Cling on to your father's hands.

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

fall
attend
touch

Where hang turns up in the game

hang is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where hang is the trap

attendverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is see, in the sense "take charge of or deal with", and hang is on the board beside it.
fallverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is come, in the sense "come under, be classified or included", with hang sitting one tile away.
touchverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is reach, in the sense "to extend as far as", so hang is there to be ruled out.
geniusnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is flair, in the sense "a natural talent", with hang sitting one tile away.

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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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