Shapes
Synonyms for spiral
The synonym for spiral recorded in this bank is coil, in the sense "a curve that winds continuously around a fixed center point". 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 spiral
- coilnoun, in the sense "a curve that winds continuously around a fixed center point"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for spiral.
a curve that winds continuously around a fixed center point
The staircase rose in a spiral, each turn winding around a central pole.
The true synonym
coil
Same sentence, swapped: The staircase rose in a coil, each turn winding around a central pole.
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 spiral in the sentence quoted.
- landing
- banister
- railing
Where spiral turns up in the game
spiral is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 spiral
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so spiral 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 shapes words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. spiral carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.