People and roles

Synonyms for joker

The synonym for joker recorded in this bank is turkey, in the sense "a person who does something thoughtless or annoying". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for joker

turkeynoun, in the sense "a person who does something thoughtless or annoying"

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

The sensenounTier 2, TreelinePeople and roles

a person who does something thoughtless or annoying

Some joker is blocking the driveway.

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

The true synonym

turkey

Same sentence, swapped: Some turkey is blocking the driveway.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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insect
weirdo

Where joker turns up in the game

joker is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 joker

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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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