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Synonyms for rip

Synonyms for rip: rent and split. 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 · 2 senses · noun · 2 reason lines

The 2 synonyms for rip

rentnoun, in the sense "an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart"
splitnoun, in the sense "the act of rending or ripping or splitting something"

Two senses of rip, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 1, FoothillsNature

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

There was a rip in his pants.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

rent

Same sentence, swapped: There was a rent in his pants.

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.

rake
pocket
window

Sense 2 of 2nounTier 1, FoothillsActions

the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

He gave the envelope a vigorous rip.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

split

Same sentence, swapped: He gave the envelope a vigorous split.

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.

rake
laceration
flow

Where rip turns up in the game

rip is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play rip

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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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