Animals
Synonyms for whelp
The synonym for whelp recorded in this bank is pup, in the sense "the young offspring of a carnivorous mammal, especially a wolf or dog". 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 whelp
- pupnoun, in the sense "the young offspring of a carnivorous mammal, especially a wolf or dog"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for whelp.
the young offspring of a carnivorous mammal, especially a wolf or dog
The she-wolf nosed the whelp back toward the den entrance.
The true synonym
pup
Same sentence, swapped: The she-wolf nosed the pup back toward the den entrance.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for whelp in the sentence quoted.
- fry
- spawn
- brood
Where whelp turns up in the game
whelp is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 whelp
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so whelp 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 animals words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. whelp carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.