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Synonyms for porous

The synonym for porous recorded in this bank is holey, in the sense "allowing passage in and out". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for porous

holeyadjective, in the sense "allowing passage in and out"

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 porous is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampNature

allowing passage in and out

Our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

holey

Same sentence, swapped: Our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very holey.

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.

spongy
weepy
runny

Where porous turns up in the game

porous is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 porous is the trap

grittyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is abrasive, in the sense "containing or covered with small hard particles", with porous sitting one tile away.
waterproofadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is impermeable, in the sense "preventing water from passing through", with porous sitting one tile away.

Play porous

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so porous 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. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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The same bank, read from both sides

porous is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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