Events
Synonyms for spatter
The synonym for spatter recorded in this bank is sputtering, in the sense "the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively". 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 spatter
- sputteringnoun, in the sense "the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for spatter.
the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
He heard a spatter of gunfire.
The true synonym
sputtering
Same sentence, swapped: He heard a sputtering of gunfire.
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.
- splashing
- hiss
- clank
Where spatter turns up in the game
spatter 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 spatter is the trap
- splashnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is stir, in the sense "a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event", and spatter is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play spatter
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so spatter 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 events words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. spatter carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.