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Synonyms for shoulder

The synonym for shoulder recorded in this bank is berm, in the sense "a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for shoulder

bermnoun, in the sense "a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road"

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 shoulder is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampObjects

a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road

The car pulled off onto the shoulder.

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

The true synonym

berm

Same sentence, swapped: The car pulled off onto the berm.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where shoulder stands in the sentence above.

border
union
hem

Where shoulder turns up in the game

shoulder is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 shoulder is the trap

bringverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is take, in the sense "take something or somebody with oneself somewhere", and shoulder is on the board beside it.
chestnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is breast, in the sense "the front of the body between the neck and the stomach, containing the heart and lungs", with shoulder sitting one tile away.

Play shoulder

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shoulder 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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One vocabulary, two jobs

shoulder is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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