Communication

Synonyms for movie

The synonym for movie recorded in this bank is picture, in the sense "a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for movie

picturenoun, in the sense "a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day movie is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsCommunication

a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

They went to a movie every Saturday night.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

picture

Same sentence, swapped: They went to a picture every Saturday night.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where movie stands in the sentence above.

paper
book
ham

Where movie turns up in the game

movie 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where movie is the trap

picturenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is video, in the sense "the visible part of a television transmission", and movie is on the board beside it.

Play movie

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so movie 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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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

movie is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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