States and conditions
Synonyms for sovereign
Synonyms for sovereign: independent and supreme. 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.
The 2 synonyms for sovereign
Interchangeable with sovereign in this sense
Audited under sovereign's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sovereign carries in that sense.
- independentadjective, in the sense "not controlled by outside forces"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name sovereign as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- supremesupreme is an adjective in the sense "greatest in status or authority or power"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under sovereign and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
not controlled by outside forces
A sovereign state.
The true synonym
independent
Same sentence, swapped: A independent state.
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.
- supreme
- commanding
- banner
Where sovereign turns up in the game
sovereign is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 sovereign is the trap
- supremeadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is sublime, in the sense "greatest or maximal in degree", with sovereign sitting one tile away.
Play sovereign
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sovereign reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other states and conditions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sovereign carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.