Quantity
Synonyms for sprinkling
The synonym for sprinkling recorded in this bank is scattering, in the sense "a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly". 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 sprinkling
- scatteringnoun, in the sense "a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day sprinkling is audited in a second meaning.
a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
A sprinkling of grey at his temples.
The true synonym
scattering
Same sentence, swapped: A scattering of grey at his temples.
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 sprinkling is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- diddly
- smidge
- irrigation
Where sprinkling turns up in the game
sprinkling is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 sprinkling is the trap
- whiskernoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is hair, in the sense "a very small distance or space", and sprinkling is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play sprinkling
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sprinkling reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because quantity is the company sprinkling keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sprinkling carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.