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Synonyms for proportion

Synonyms for proportion: ratio and balance. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun

The 2 synonyms for proportion

Interchangeable with proportion in this sense

Audited under proportion's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one proportion carries in that sense.

rationoun, in the sense "the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name proportion as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

balancebalance is a noun in the sense "harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under proportion and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineRelations

the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree

A dry martini has a large proportion of gin.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

ratio

Same sentence, swapped: A dry martini has a large ratio of gin.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

symmetry
dimension
justice

Where proportion turns up in the game

proportion is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 proportion

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