Groups and collections

Synonyms for public

Synonyms for public: world and community. 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for public

Interchangeable with public in this sense

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

worldnoun, in the sense "people in general considered as a whole"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

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

communitycommunity is a noun in the sense "the people living in a particular area, considered as a group"

The first group is filed under public's own sense. The second reaches public from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsGroups and collections

people in general considered as a whole

He is a hero in the eyes of the public.

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

The true synonym

world

Same sentence, swapped: He is a hero in the eyes of the world.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

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Where public turns up in the game

public 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where public is the trap

worldadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is global, in the sense "involving the entire earth", with public sitting one tile away.
sizableadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is hefty, in the sense "fairly large in amount", so public is there to be ruled out.

Play public

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so public 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 ring widens as it goes, from groups and collections at Foothills outward to the whole bank.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. public carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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