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Synonyms for sylvan

The synonym for sylvan recorded in this bank is silvan, in the sense "relating to or characteristic of wooded regions". 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 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for sylvan

silvanadjective, in the sense "relating to or characteristic of wooded regions"

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 sylvan is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 5, Summit

relating to or characteristic of wooded regions

A shady sylvan glade.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

silvan

Same sentence, swapped: A shady silvan glade.

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.

bushy
outback
virgin

Where sylvan turns up in the game

sylvan is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 sylvan

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sylvan 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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sylvan carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at Summit and widens alphabetically.

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