Quantity
Synonyms for spate
The synonym for spate recorded in this bank is rash, in the sense "a large number of things happening in a short time". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for spate
- rashnoun, in the sense "a large number of things happening in a short time"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for spate.
a large number of things happening in a short time
The city saw a spate of break-ins over the holiday weekend.
The true synonym
rash
Same sentence, swapped: The city saw a rash of break-ins over the holiday weekend.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for spate in the sentence quoted.
- absence
- rumor
- investigation
Where spate turns up in the game
spate 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 spate is the trap
- profusionnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is richness, in the sense "the property of being extremely abundant", and spate is on the board beside it.
Play spate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so spate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from quantity at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. spate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.