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Synonyms for mistake
Synonyms for mistake: fault and misunderstanding. 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 mistake
- faultnoun, in the sense "a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention"
- misunderstandingnoun, in the sense "an understanding of something that is not correct"
Two senses of mistake, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
He made a bad mistake.
The true synonym
fault
Same sentence, swapped: He made a bad fault.
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.
- neglect
- mess
- squeeze
an understanding of something that is not correct
He wasn't going to admit his mistake.
The true synonym
misunderstanding
Same sentence, swapped: He wasn't going to admit his misunderstanding.
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.
- fancy
- delusion
- trip
Where mistake turns up in the game
mistake is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 mistake is the trap
- illusionnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is fancy, in the sense "something many people believe that is false", with mistake sitting one tile away.
Play mistake
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mistake 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 actions is the company mistake keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. mistake carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.