Contact and joining

Synonyms for stub

Synonyms for stub: extinguish and nub. 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.

2 synonyms · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 2 senses · verb and noun

The 2 synonyms for stub

extinguishverb, in the sense "extinguish by crushing"
nubnoun, in the sense "a small piece"

Two senses of stub, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.

Sense 1 of 2verbTier 3, RidgelineContact and joining

extinguish by crushing

Stub out your cigar.

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

The true synonym

extinguish

Same sentence, swapped: Extinguish out your cigar.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

docket
imprint
trademark

Sense 2 of 2nounTier 4, High CampNature

a small piece

A stub of a pencil.

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

The true synonym

nub

Same sentence, swapped: A nub of a pencil.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

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segment
corner

Where stub turns up in the game

stub is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 stub

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stub reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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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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