People and roles
Synonyms for utility
The synonym for utility recorded in this bank is substitute, in the sense "capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for utility
- substituteadjective, in the sense "capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for utility.
capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
A utility infielder.
The true synonym
substitute
Same sentence, swapped: A substitute infielder.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where utility stands in the sentence above.
- conglomerate
- motor
- firm
Where utility turns up in the game
utility is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where utility is the trap
- measurenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is standard, in the sense "a basis for comparison", and utility is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play utility
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so utility reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other people and roles words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
utility is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.