Qualities

Synonyms for jagged

Synonyms for jagged: scraggy and craggy. 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for jagged

Interchangeable with jagged in this sense

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

scraggyadjective, in the sense "having a sharply uneven surface or outline"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

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

craggycraggy is an adjective in the sense "having many steep, rough, jagged rocks"

one of these comes from jagged's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampQualities

having a sharply uneven surface or outline

The jagged outline of the crags.

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

The true synonym

scraggy

Same sentence, swapped: The scraggy outline of the crags.

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.

scrappy
spotty
inconsistent

Where jagged turns up in the game

jagged is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where jagged is the trap

corneredadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is trapped, in the sense "forced to turn and face attackers", and jagged is one of the three tiles that lose.
discreteadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is distinct, in the sense "constituting a separate entity or part", with jagged sitting one tile away.

Play jagged

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so jagged 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. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

jagged is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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