Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for ilk

The synonym for ilk recorded in this bank is like, in the sense "a kind of person". 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 · noun

The synonym for ilk

likenoun, in the sense "a kind of person"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for ilk.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampThinking and knowing

a kind of person

I can't tolerate people of his ilk.

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

The true synonym

Same sentence, swapped: I can't tolerate people of his like.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where ilk stands in the sentence above.

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Where ilk turns up in the game

ilk 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 ilk

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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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