States and conditions

Synonyms for messy

The synonym for messy recorded in this bank is mussy, in the sense "dirty and disorderly". 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 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for messy

mussyadjective, in the sense "dirty and disorderly"

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

The senseadjectiveTier 5, SummitStates and conditions

dirty and disorderly

A child's messy eating habits.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

mussy

Same sentence, swapped: A child's mussy eating habits.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

clumsy
dusty
muddy

Where messy turns up in the game

messy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 messy

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so messy 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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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