Contact and joining

Synonyms for wash

The synonym for wash recorded in this bank is launder, in the sense "cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water". 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 · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for wash

launderverb, in the sense "cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water"

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 wash is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineContact and joining

cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water

Wash the towels, please!

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

The true synonym

launder

Same sentence, swapped: Launder the towels, please!

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

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Where wash turns up in the game

wash 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where wash is the trap

paintingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is picture, in the sense "graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface", with wash sitting one tile away.
creamverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is skim, in the sense "remove from the surface", with wash sitting one tile away.

Play wash

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