WordRank
Daily puzzle · June 15, 2026

WordRank Day #40

Today's goal is to find a hidden English word. Type any word and we'll tell you how semantically close it is to the secret. The closer you get, the higher your rank.

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VOL. 40
WORDRANK POSTAL BUREAU

Solve wall

4 solved this one

FIRST DAY OF ISSUE1
RIK
champion
WORDRANK · en
First to solve
RUNNER-UP
HRH
№ 2
Second
THIRD
CYJ
№ 3
Third
Other 1 issues
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    DST
WORDRANK · POSTAL BUREAU
Answer revealed
The answer wasdamage

This puzzle's semantic breakdown

"damage" falls between "clustered" and "isolated". "damages", "damaging", "damaged" are its neighbors, the nearest ("damages") reaches 0.69, and the top-10 averages 0.559 — fuzzy edges, so it takes a few probes to feel out.

A 0.305 gap (0.69 → 0.385) makes this a flat distribution: no cliff, warmth fades slowly, guesses go "warm" easily but rarely land dead-on.

Watch "irreparable": it ranks high at 0.531 but heads a different way than "damages". Fixate on the handy synonyms and you'll brush right past it — yet it's often the key to this round.

Top 100 words closest in meaning

These are the words closest in semantic space to "damage". Highest similarity first. Every entry is part of WordRank's 60k-word vocabulary.

  1. 1damages0.690
  2. 2damaging0.615
  3. 3damaged0.594
  4. 4harm0.588
  5. 5irreparable0.531
  6. 6inflict0.526
  7. 7inflicts0.524
  8. 8breakage0.512
  9. 9inflicted0.508
  10. 10breakages0.499
  11. 11caused0.496
  12. 12injuries0.493
  13. 13knockback0.489
  14. 14dmg0.487
  15. 15injury0.483
  16. 16repair0.483
  17. 17inflicting0.482
  18. 18causing0.476
  19. 19repairs0.474
  20. 20repairing0.467
  21. 21destruction0.466
  22. 22disruption0.463
  23. 23repairable0.460
  24. 24cause0.456
  25. 25catastrophic0.448
  26. 26loss0.442
  27. 27losses0.442
  28. 28hailstorm0.438
  29. 29melee0.438
  30. 30devastating0.438
  31. 31harms0.436
  32. 32impacts0.433
  33. 33scarring0.432
  34. 34collateral0.431
  35. 35irreversible0.430
  36. 36injure0.429
  37. 37casualties0.429
  38. 38devastation0.429
  39. 39rupture0.428
  40. 40havoc0.426
  41. 41sustained0.426
  42. 42repaired0.426
  43. 43deterioration0.426
  44. 44flooding0.424
  45. 45causes0.423
  46. 46incurred0.420
  47. 47dents0.419
  48. 48harmed0.419
  49. 49attacks0.416
  50. 50repercussions0.415
  51. 51impact0.414
  52. 52debuff0.414
  53. 53ruptures0.413
  54. 54leakage0.413
  55. 55attack0.413
  56. 56liability0.412
  57. 57detrimental0.411
  58. 58severe0.408
  59. 59mitigate0.407
  60. 60discoloration0.407
  61. 61spillage0.406
  62. 62undamaged0.404
  63. 63heal0.403
  64. 64theft0.403
  65. 65corrosion0.401
  66. 66puncture0.401
  67. 67irreparably0.401
  68. 68deformation0.400
  69. 69suffered0.400
  70. 70affected0.399
  71. 71heals0.399
  72. 72fallout0.399
  73. 73vandalism0.399
  74. 74ravages0.398
  75. 75destroyed0.398
  76. 76effects0.395
  77. 77denting0.395
  78. 78destructions0.394
  79. 79impairing0.394
  80. 80harming0.394
  81. 81malfunction0.393
  82. 82disfigurement0.393
  83. 83defects0.393
  84. 84reputational0.393
  85. 85survivability0.392
  86. 86resulting0.392
  87. 87wreak0.391
  88. 88deleterious0.390
  89. 89hazards0.390
  90. 90incur0.389
  91. 91trauma0.389
  92. 92wreaked0.388
  93. 93blow0.388
  94. 94debris0.387
  95. 95affect0.386
  96. 96collision0.386
  97. 97erosion0.386
  98. 98scratches0.386
  99. 99injures0.385
  100. 100weakening0.385

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