Movement

Synonyms for heel

Synonyms for heel: list and dog. 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 · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for heel

Interchangeable with heel in this sense

Audited under heel's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one heel carries in that sense.

listverb, in the sense "tilt to one side"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name heel as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

dogdog is a noun in the sense "someone who is morally reprehensible"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under heel and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineMovement

tilt to one side

The wind made the vessel heel.

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

The true synonym

list

Same sentence, swapped: The wind made the vessel list.

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 heel in the sentence quoted.

weather
rig
pursue

Where heel turns up in the game

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

The puzzles where heel is the trap

destinationnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is finish, in the sense "the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)", and heel is one of the three tiles that lose.
spinenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is backbone, in the sense "the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved", with heel sitting one tile away.
tinkerverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fiddle, in the sense "try to fix or mend", with heel sitting one tile away.

Play heel

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so heel 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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trajectorynouncoursethe curved path followed by a moving objectTreelineHas a reason line treadverbstepput down or press the foot, place the footTreelineHas a reason line trudgeverbslogto walk slowly and heavily, especially with effort or fatigueTreelineHas a reason line veerverbswerveto change direction suddenlyTreelineHas a reason line evadeverbduckavoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)Ridgeline2 sensesHas a reason line excursionnounoutinga short journey or trip, usually taken for pleasureFoothillsHas a reason line exodusnoundeparturea mass departure of people from a placeTreelineHas a reason line urbaneadjectivesuavesuave, sophisticated, and socially at ease, especially in refined companyTreelineHas a reason line

The wrong tile gets explained too

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