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Synonyms for whisker
The synonym for whisker recorded in this bank is hair, in the sense "a very small distance or space". 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 whisker
- hairnoun, in the sense "a very small distance or space"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for whisker.
a very small distance or space
They lost the election by a whisker.
The true synonym
hair
Same sentence, swapped: They lost the election by a hair.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot whisker is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- tint
- diddly
- sprinkling
Where whisker turns up in the game
whisker is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 whisker
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so whisker 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 quantity is the company whisker keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. whisker carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.