Communication

Synonyms for joke

The synonym for joke recorded in this bank is laugh, in the sense "a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for joke

laughnoun, in the sense "a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter"

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

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsCommunication

a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

He told a very funny joke.

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

The true synonym

laugh

Same sentence, swapped: He told a very funny laugh.

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 joke in the sentence quoted.

trick
bite
sketch

Where joke turns up in the game

joke is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 joke is the trap

fretverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is worry, in the sense "to be constantly or visibly anxious about something", and joke is on the board beside it.
funnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is merriment, in the sense "activities that are enjoyable or amusing", and joke is one of the three tiles that lose.
bitenoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is pungency, in the sense "wit having a sharp and caustic quality", so joke is there to be ruled out.

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The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so joke 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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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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