Objects
Synonyms for plank
The synonym for plank recorded in this bank is board, in the sense "a long flat piece of timber". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for plank
- boardnoun, in the sense "a long flat piece of timber"
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 plank is audited in a second meaning.
a long flat piece of timber
He nailed a plank across the broken fence to hold it together.
The true synonym
board
Same sentence, swapped: He nailed a board across the broken fence to hold it together.
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 plank is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- beam
- rail
- post
Where plank turns up in the game
plank 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 plank is the trap
- plumpverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fat, in the sense "make fat or plump", and plank is on the board beside it.
Play plank
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so plank reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other objects words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. plank carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.