People and roles

Synonyms for type

The synonym for type recorded in this bank is case, in the sense "a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 4 puzzles

The synonym for type

casenoun, in the sense "a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)"

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 type is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsPeople and roles

a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)

He is an odd type who keeps to himself.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

case

Same sentence, swapped: He is an odd case who keeps to himself.

Close but different

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

woman
thoroughbred
race

Where type turns up in the game

type is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where type is the trap

casenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is shell, in the sense "the housing or outer covering of something", and type is on the board beside it.
promisenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is hope, in the sense "grounds for feeling hopeful about the future", with type sitting one tile away.
raceverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is run, in the sense "compete in a race", with type sitting one tile away.
testnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is trial, in the sense "the act of undergoing testing", and type is on the board beside it.

Play type

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so type 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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

type is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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