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Synonyms for revision

Synonyms for revision: alteration and rewrite. 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for revision

Interchangeable with revision in this sense

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

alterationnoun, in the sense "the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

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

rewriterewrite is a noun in the sense "something that has been written again"

one of these comes from revision'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 3, RidgelineActions

the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)

It would require a drastic revision of his opinion.

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

The true synonym

alteration

Same sentence, swapped: It would require a drastic alteration of his opinion.

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.

rewrite
transfiguration
permutation

Where revision turns up in the game

revision is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 revision is the trap

adaptationnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is version, in the sense "a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form", and revision is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play revision

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so revision 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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. revision carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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