Events

Synonyms for slip

The synonym for slip recorded in this bank is trip, in the sense "an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 5 puzzles

The synonym for slip

tripnoun, in the sense "an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for slip.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsEvents

an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall

He blamed his slip on the ice.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

trip

Same sentence, swapped: He blamed his trip on the ice.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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crash

Where slip turns up in the game

slip is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

4 of the 5 puzzles where slip is the trap

commitverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is trust, in the sense "confer a trust upon", so slip is there to be ruled out.
youthnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is young, in the sense "young people collectively", with slip sitting one tile away.
communicateverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is convey, in the sense "transfer to another", so slip is there to be ruled out.
cuttingnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is thinning, in the sense "the act of diluting something", and slip is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play slip

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so slip 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. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Closest first: other events words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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The same bank, read from both sides

slip is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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