Movement
Synonyms for sail
The synonym for sail recorded in this bank is voyage, in the sense "travel on water propelled by wind or by other means". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for sail
- voyageverb, in the sense "travel on water propelled by wind or by other means"
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 sail is audited in a second meaning.
travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow.
The true synonym
voyage
Same sentence, swapped: The QE2 will voyage to Southampton tomorrow.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for sail in the sentence quoted.
- sledge
- slide
- fleet
Where sail turns up in the game
sail 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where sail is the trap
- sweepverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is broom, in the sense "sweep with a broom or as if with a broom", with sail sitting one tile away.
Play sail
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sail 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 movement words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sail carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.