Communication
Synonyms for pun
The synonym for pun recorded in this bank is wordplay, in the sense "a humorous play on words". 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 pun
- wordplaynoun, in the sense "a humorous play on words"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and pun carries one sense so far.
a humorous play on words
I do it for the pun of it.
The true synonym
wordplay
Same sentence, swapped: I do it for the wordplay of it.
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.
- clowning
- chime
- sparkle
Where pun turns up in the game
pun is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 pun
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pun 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 communication is the company pun keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pun carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.