Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for rate
Synonyms for rate: value and pace. 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.
The 2 synonyms for rate
- valueverb, in the sense "estimate the value of"
- pacenoun, in the sense "the relative speed of progress or change"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of rate, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
estimate the value of
How would you rate his chances to become President?
The true synonym
value
Same sentence, swapped: How would you value his chances to become President?
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where rate stands in the sentence above.
- praise
- censor
- reevaluate
the relative speed of progress or change
He works at a great rate.
The true synonym
pace
Same sentence, swapped: He works at a great pace.
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.
- length
- score
- amount
Where rate turns up in the game
rate is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 rate is the trap
- rangeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is run, in the sense "change or be different within limits", so rate is there to be ruled out.
Play rate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rate 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 thinking and knowing is the company rate keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. rate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.