Events

Synonyms for scrape

The synonym for scrape recorded in this bank is scratch, in the sense "a harsh noise made by scraping". 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 · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for scrape

scratchnoun, in the sense "a harsh noise made by scraping"

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 scrape is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineEvents

a harsh noise made by scraping

The scrape of violin bows distracted her.

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

The true synonym

scratch

Same sentence, swapped: The scratch of violin bows distracted her.

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 scrape is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

whoosh
rattle
mystery

Where scrape turns up in the game

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

The puzzles where scrape is the trap

lumpverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is chunk, in the sense "put together indiscriminately", and scrape is one of the three tiles that lose.
wrenchverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is turn, in the sense "twist suddenly so as to sprain", with scrape sitting one tile away.

Play scrape

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scrape 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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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