Events
Synonyms for whir
The synonym for whir recorded in this bank is birr, in the sense "sound of something in rapid motion". 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 whir
- birrnoun, in the sense "sound of something in rapid motion"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and whir carries one sense so far.
sound of something in rapid motion
The whir of the propellers.
The true synonym
birr
Same sentence, swapped: The birr of the propellers.
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.
- drumbeat
- strum
- thrum
Where whir turns up in the game
whir is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 whir
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so whir 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 events words at Summit, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. whir carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.