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Synonyms for sleeper

The synonym for sleeper recorded in this bank is tie, in the sense "one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track". 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

The synonym for sleeper

tienoun, in the sense "one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track"

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 sleeper is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineObjects

one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track

Workers replaced every rotten sleeper on the railway line.

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

The true synonym

tie

Same sentence, swapped: Workers replaced every rotten tie on the railway line.

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.

strut
stringer
tar

Where sleeper turns up in the game

sleeper is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play sleeper

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