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Synonyms for headlong

The synonym for headlong recorded in this bank is headfirst, in the sense "with the head foremost". 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 headlong

headfirstadjective, in the sense "with the head foremost"

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

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High Camp

with the head foremost

A headlong dive into the pool.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

headfirst

Same sentence, swapped: A headfirst dive into the pool.

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.

agile
abrupt
breathless

Where headlong turns up in the game

headlong 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 headlong

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