States and conditions

Synonyms for squalid

The synonym for squalid recorded in this bank is sordid, in the sense "foul and run-down and repulsive". 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 squalid

sordidadjective, in the sense "foul and run-down and repulsive"

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The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineStates and conditions

foul and run-down and repulsive

A squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town.

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The true synonym

sordid

Same sentence, swapped: A sordid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town.

Close but different

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

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Where squalid turns up in the game

squalid 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.

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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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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