Communication

Synonyms for roof

The synonym for roof recorded in this bank is cap, in the sense "an upper limit on what is allowed". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for roof

capnoun, in the sense "an upper limit on what is allowed"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for roof.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsCommunication

an upper limit on what is allowed

There was a roof on salaries.

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

The true synonym

cap

Same sentence, swapped: There was a cap on salaries.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot roof is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

base
farm
hall

Where roof turns up in the game

roof 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where roof is the trap

floornoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is base, in the sense "a lower limit", and roof is on the board beside it.
surfacenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is open, in the sense "information that has become public", with roof sitting one tile away.

Play roof

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so roof 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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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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

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