Qualities

Synonyms for sordid

Synonyms for sordid: dirty and squalid. 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for sordid

Interchangeable with sordid in this sense

Audited under sordid's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sordid carries in that sense.

dirtyadjective, in the sense "unethical or dishonest"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name sordid as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

squalidsqualid is an adjective in the sense "foul and run-down and repulsive"

one of these comes from sordid's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineQualities

unethical or dishonest

A sordid political campaign.

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

The true synonym

dirty

Same sentence, swapped: A dirty political campaign.

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.

dire
pitiful
enormous

Where sordid turns up in the game

sordid is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where sordid is the trap

limitlessadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unlimited, in the sense "having no limits in range or scope", so sordid is there to be ruled out.

Play sordid

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

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

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