Communication

Synonyms for publish

The synonym for publish recorded in this bank is release, in the sense "prepare and issue for public distribution or sale". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for publish

releaseverb, in the sense "prepare and issue for public distribution or sale"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for publish.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineCommunication

prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

Publish a magazine or newspaper.

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

The true synonym

release

Same sentence, swapped: Release a magazine or newspaper.

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.

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Where publish turns up in the game

publish 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 publish

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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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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