Communication

Synonyms for password

The synonym for password recorded in this bank is word, in the sense "a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group". 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

The synonym for password

wordnoun, in the sense "a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group"

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 password is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineCommunication

a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group

He forgot the password.

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

The true synonym

word

Same sentence, swapped: He forgot the word.

Close but different

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

plastic
card
key

Where password turns up in the game

password 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 password

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