Contact and joining
Synonyms for ruffle
Synonyms for ruffle: pleat and rumple. 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.
The 2 synonyms for ruffle
- pleatverb, in the sense "pleat or gather into a ruffle"
- rumpleverb, in the sense "disturb the smoothness of"
Two senses of ruffle, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
pleat or gather into a ruffle
Ruffle the curtain fabric.
The true synonym
pleat
Same sentence, swapped: Pleat the curtain fabric.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- prance
- scrunch
- crinkle
disturb the smoothness of
Ruffle the surface of the water.
The true synonym
rumple
Same sentence, swapped: Rumple the surface of the water.
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 ruffle is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- prance
- fluff
- tussle
Where ruffle turns up in the game
ruffle is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 4, High Camp. 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 ruffle is the trap
- uprootverb, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is extirpate, in the sense "pull up by or as if by the roots", so ruffle is there to be ruled out.
Play ruffle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ruffle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ruffle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.