Objects
Synonyms for wing
Synonyms for wing: fender and fly. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for wing
Interchangeable with wing in this sense
Audited under wing's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one wing carries in that sense.
- fendernoun, in the sense "a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name wing as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- flyfly is a verb in the sense "travel through the air"
one of these comes from wing's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
A stone chipped the paint on the car's front wing.
The true synonym
fender
Same sentence, swapped: A stone chipped the paint on the car's front fender.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- extension
- backstage
- fence
Where wing turns up in the game
wing 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where wing is the trap
- custodynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is hold, in the sense "a state of being confined (usually for a short time)", and wing is on the board beside it.
- rearnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is back, in the sense "the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer", so wing is there to be ruled out.
- slicenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is piece, in the sense "a serving that has been cut from a larger portion", with wing sitting one tile away.
- complementnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is accompaniment, in the sense "something added to complete or embellish or make perfect", with wing sitting one tile away.
Play wing
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wing 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 objects words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
wing is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.