Communication

Synonyms for record

Synonyms for record: book and register. 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 · a wrong tile in 4 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for record

Interchangeable with record in this sense

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

booknoun, in the sense "a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

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

registerregister is a verb in the sense "be aware of"

one of these comes from record's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsCommunication

a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone

Let's look at the record before we decide.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

book

Same sentence, swapped: Let's look at the book before we decide.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where record stands in the sentence above.

disk
basics
indicator

Where record turns up in the game

record 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where record is the trap

readverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is understand, in the sense "make sense of a language", so record is there to be ruled out.
amplifyverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is boost, in the sense "to increase the volume or intensity of a sound", with record sitting one tile away.
booknoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is volume, in the sense "physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together", and record is one of the three tiles that lose.
conserveverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is husband, in the sense "use cautiously and frugally", and record is on the board beside it.

Play record

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so record 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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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reasonnouncausea justification for something existing or happeningFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line representverbdefendbe the defense counsel for someone in a trialFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line resultnoun, verbanswera statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problemFoothills2 senses nasaladjectivepinchedsounding as if the nose were pinchedRidgeline newsnounwordinformation about recent and important eventsFoothillsHas a reason line nicknamenounmonikera familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)High Camp scarcelyadverbbarelyonly just; barely, implying a very small amountFoothillsHas a reason line scarcitynounshortagea state of insufficient quantity or supplyFoothillsHas a reason line

One vocabulary, two jobs

record is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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