Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for solve

Synonyms for solve: work and resolve. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 2 senses · verb · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for solve

workverb, in the sense "find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of"
resolveverb, in the sense "find the solution"

All two are filed under solve's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2verbTier 1, FoothillsThinking and knowing

find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of

Did you solve the problem?

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

work

Same sentence, swapped: Did you work the problem?

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

clear
grasp
translate

Sense 2 of 2verbTier 2, TreelineThinking and knowing

find the solution

The team needs to solve this problem quickly.

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

The true synonym

resolve

Same sentence, swapped: The team needs to resolve this problem quickly.

Close but different

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

clear
add
process

Where solve turns up in the game

solve is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 solve

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so solve 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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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. solve carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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