Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for lead
Synonyms for lead: track and headline. 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.
The 2 synonyms for lead
Interchangeable with lead in this sense
Audited under lead's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one lead carries in that sense.
- tracknoun, in the sense "evidence pointing to a possible solution"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name lead as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- headlineheadline is a verb in the sense "to be the featured performer at an event"
one of these comes from lead'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.
evidence pointing to a possible solution
The police are following a promising lead.
The true synonym
track
Same sentence, swapped: The police are following a promising track.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- star
- wind
- proof
Where lead turns up in the game
lead 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where lead is the trap
- stationnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is post, in the sense "the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand", and lead is one of the three tiles that lose.
- tracknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is course, in the sense "a line or route along which something travels or moves", with lead sitting one tile away.
- tracknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is cut, in the sense "a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc", with lead sitting one tile away.
- windnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is twist, in the sense "the act of winding or twisting", and lead is on the board beside it.
Play lead
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lead reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because thinking and knowing is the company lead keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. lead carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.