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Synonyms for smoothly

The synonym for smoothly recorded in this bank is swimmingly, in the sense "with no problems or difficulties". 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 · adverb · a wrong tile in 4 puzzles

The synonym for smoothly

swimminglyadverb, in the sense "with no problems or difficulties"

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 smoothly is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadverbTier 4, High Camp

with no problems or difficulties

Put the plans into effect quickly and smoothly.

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

The true synonym

swimmingly

Same sentence, swapped: Put the plans into effect quickly and swimmingly.

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.

effectively
peacefully
regularly

Where smoothly turns up in the game

smoothly 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where smoothly is the trap

swiftlyadverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is rapidly, in the sense "quickly, at high speed", with smoothly sitting one tile away.
lightlyadverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is softly, in the sense "with little weight or force", and smoothly is one of the three tiles that lose.
haltinglyadverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is falteringly, in the sense "proceeding with hesitant stops and starts", so smoothly is there to be ruled out.
lightlyadverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is thinly, in the sense "in a small quantity or extent", and smoothly is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play smoothly

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

smoothly is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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