Qualities
Synonyms for probability
The synonym for probability recorded in this bank is chance, in the sense "a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur". 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 probability
- chancenoun, in the sense "a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and probability carries one sense so far.
a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur
The probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5.
The true synonym
chance
Same sentence, swapped: The chance that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5.
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.
- quantum
- radical
- prejudice
Where probability turns up in the game
probability 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 probability
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so probability 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 qualities is the company probability keeps.
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Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. The daily stack climbs from tier one to tier five, and every answer shows the meaning it was audited in.