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Synonyms for luck
Synonyms for luck: fortune, lot and chance. 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 3 synonyms for luck
Interchangeable with luck, one per sense
Audited under luck's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one luck carries in that sense.
- fortunenoun, in the sense "an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome"
- lotnoun, in the sense "your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name luck as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- chancechance is a noun in the sense "an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another"
two of these come from luck's own entries 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.
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
They say luck is a lady.
The true synonym
fortune
Same sentence, swapped: They say fortune is a lady.
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 luck in the sentence quoted.
- issue
- rebirth
- light
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
Such was the luck of a farmer in those hard years.
The true synonym
lot
Same sentence, swapped: Such was the lot of a farmer in those hard years.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- hazard
- ordinary
- roots
Where luck turns up in the game
luck is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where luck is the trap
- lotnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is set, in the sense "an unofficial association of people or groups", and luck is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play luck
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so luck reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other nature words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. luck carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.