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Synonyms for spot
Synonyms for spot: place, patch, blot and smudge. 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 4 synonyms for spot
Interchangeable with spot, one per sense
Audited under spot's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one spot carries in that sense.
- placenoun, in the sense "a point located with respect to surface features of some region"
- patchnoun, in the sense "a small contrasting part of something"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name spot as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under spot's own senses. The second reach spot from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
A bright spot on a planet.
spot in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The surveyor flagged a spot on the blueprint where the pipe would cross the foundation.
- In his letter, he described a spot near the harbor where the fishermen gather at dawn.
How it behaves: Spot in this sense usually follows a locating verb such as mark, find, or point to, and often takes a descriptive modifier like bright, exact, or particular before it.
The true synonym
place
Same sentence, swapped: A bright place on a planet.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- touch
- beginning
- corner
a small contrasting part of something
A bald spot.
The true synonym
patch
Same sentence, swapped: A bald patch.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot spot is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- touch
- bit
- cross
Where spot turns up in the game
spot is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 7 puzzles where spot is the trap
- jamverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is crush, in the sense "crush or bruise", and spot is on the board beside it.
- levelverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is even, in the sense "make level or straight", and spot is one of the three tiles that lose.
- lineverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is draw, in the sense "make a mark or lines on a surface", and spot is one of the three tiles that lose.
- noticenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is observation, in the sense "the act of noticing or paying attention", and spot is on the board beside it.
Play spot
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so spot 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 places words at Foothills, 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. spot carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.