Money

Synonyms for means

The synonym for means recorded in this bank is substance, in the sense "considerable capital (wealth or income)". 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 · 1 reason line

The synonym for means

substancenoun, in the sense "considerable capital (wealth or income)"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and means carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineMoney

considerable capital (wealth or income)

He is a man of means.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

substance

Same sentence, swapped: He is a man of substance.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot means is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

agency
instrumentation
principal

Where means turns up in the game

means 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 means

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so means 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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