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Synonyms for step
Synonyms for step: pace, stair, stride and tread. 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 step
Interchangeable with step, one per sense
Audited under step's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one step carries in that sense.
- paceverb, in the sense "measure (distances) by pacing"
- stairnoun, in the sense "support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name step as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under step and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
measure (distances) by pacing
Step off ten yards.
The true synonym
pace
Same sentence, swapped: Pace off ten yards.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- mistreat
- clock
- scale
support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
He paused on the bottom step.
The true synonym
stair
Same sentence, swapped: He paused on the bottom stair.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- tone
- pace
- bar
Where step turns up in the game
step 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where step is the trap
- secondverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is back, in the sense "give support or one's approval to", and step is one of the three tiles that lose.
- bidverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is press, in the sense "ask for or request earnestly", with step sitting one tile away.
- dropnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is drib, in the sense "a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)", so step is there to be ruled out.
- ringnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is tintinnabulation, in the sense "the sound of a bell ringing", and step is on the board beside it.
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The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so step 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 change 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. step carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.