Qualities
Synonyms for rain
The synonym for rain recorded in this bank is pelting, in the sense "anything happening rapidly or in quick successive". 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 rain
- peltingnoun, in the sense "anything happening rapidly or in quick successive"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and rain carries one sense so far.
anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
A rain of bullets.
The true synonym
pelting
Same sentence, swapped: A pelting of bullets.
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.
- row
- run
- ghost
Where rain turns up in the game
rain is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where rain is the trap
- ghostnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is shade, in the sense "a mental representation of some haunting experience", with rain sitting one tile away.
Play rain
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rain reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. rain carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.