Contact and joining

Synonyms for uncouple

The synonym for uncouple recorded in this bank is decouple, in the sense "disconnect or separate". 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 · verb

The synonym for uncouple

decoupleverb, in the sense "disconnect or separate"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and uncouple carries one sense so far.

The senseverbTier 5, SummitContact and joining

disconnect or separate

Uncouple the hounds.

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

The true synonym

decouple

Same sentence, swapped: Decouple the hounds.

Close but different

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

couple
segregate
sequester

Where uncouple turns up in the game

uncouple 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 uncouple

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so uncouple 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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