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Synonyms for rig

The synonym for rig recorded in this bank is set, in the sense "equip with sails or masts". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for rig

setverb, in the sense "equip with sails or masts"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day rig is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineChange

equip with sails or masts

The crew will rig the sails before dawn.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

set

Same sentence, swapped: The crew will set the sails before dawn.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

manipulate
armor
collar

Where rig turns up in the game

rig is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where rig is the trap

anchorverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is ground, in the sense "fix firmly and stably", with rig sitting one tile away.
heelverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is list, in the sense "tilt to one side", and rig is one of the three tiles that lose.
disguisenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is camouflage, in the sense "the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance", so rig is there to be ruled out.

Play rig

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rig 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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The same bank, read from both sides

rig is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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