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Synonyms for sequence

The synonym for sequence recorded in this bank is succession, in the sense "the action of following in order". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for sequence

successionnoun, in the sense "the action of following in order"

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 sequence is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineActions

the action of following in order

He played the trumps in sequence.

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

The true synonym

succession

Same sentence, swapped: He played the trumps in succession.

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

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Where sequence turns up in the game

sequence is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where sequence is the trap

harvestverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is reap, in the sense "gather, as of natural products", and sequence is on the board beside it.
rashnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is blizzard, in the sense "a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences", with sequence sitting one tile away.
locateverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is situate, in the sense "determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey", with sequence sitting one tile away.

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The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sequence 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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