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Synonyms for spotted

The synonym for spotted recorded in this bank is patched, in the sense "having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for spotted

patchedadjective, in the sense "having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and spotted carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)

A black-and-white spotted cow.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

patched

Same sentence, swapped: A black-and-white patched cow.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where spotted stands in the sentence above.

located
planted
posted

Where spotted turns up in the game

spotted is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 spotted

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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