Qualities

Synonyms for wrongful

The synonym for wrongful recorded in this bank is unlawful, in the sense "having no legally established claim". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for wrongful

unlawfuladjective, in the sense "having no legally established claim"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for wrongful.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineQualities

having no legally established claim

The wrongful heir to the throne.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

unlawful

Same sentence, swapped: The unlawful heir to the throne.

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.

uneven
unbalanced
unequal

Where wrongful turns up in the game

wrongful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 wrongful

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wrongful reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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