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Synonyms for under

The synonym for under recorded in this bank is nether, in the sense "located below or beneath something else". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for under

netheradjective, in the sense "located below or beneath something else"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for under.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

located below or beneath something else

The under parts of a machine.

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

The true synonym

nether

Same sentence, swapped: The nether parts of a machine.

Close but different

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

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Where under turns up in the game

under is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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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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