Making and creating
Synonyms for wellspring
The synonym for wellspring recorded in this bank is fount, in the sense "a source from which something, such as ideas, continually arises". 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 wellspring
- fountnoun, in the sense "a source from which something, such as ideas, continually arises"
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 wellspring is audited in a second meaning.
a source from which something, such as ideas, continually arises
Her childhood notebooks became a wellspring of ideas for the novel decades later.
The true synonym
fount
Same sentence, swapped: Her childhood notebooks became a fount of ideas for the novel decades later.
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.
- archive
- relic
- ledger
Where wellspring turns up in the game
wellspring 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 wellspring is the trap
- birthplacenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is cradle, in the sense "where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence", so wellspring is there to be ruled out.
Play wellspring
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wellspring reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because making and creating is the company wellspring keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. wellspring carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.