Groups and collections
Synonyms for mob
Synonyms for mob: crowd and gang. 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 mob
Interchangeable with mob in this sense
Audited under mob's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one mob carries in that sense.
- crowdnoun, in the sense "a large, disorderly crowd of people, especially one bent on violence or disruption"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name mob as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- ganggang is a noun in the sense "an organized group of people who act together, often for criminal purposes"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under mob and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a large, disorderly crowd of people, especially one bent on violence or disruption
An angry mob surrounded the palace gates.
The true synonym
crowd
Same sentence, swapped: An angry crowd surrounded the palace gates.
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 mob is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- jury
- panel
- choir
Where mob turns up in the game
mob 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where mob is the trap
- familynoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is folk, in the sense "people descended from a common ancestor", and mob is on the board beside it.
- familynoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fellowship, in the sense "an association of people who share common beliefs or activities", and mob is on the board beside it.
Play mob
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mob 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 groups and collections is the company mob keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. mob carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.