WordRank
Daily puzzle · July 21, 2026

WordRank Day #76

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. 76
WORDRANK POSTAL BUREAU

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champion
WORDRANK · en
First to solve
RUNNER-UP
CYJ
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Second
THIRD
RM
№ 3
Third
WORDRANK · POSTAL BUREAU
Answer revealed
The answer wasjudge

This puzzle's semantic breakdown

Around "judge" it's neither crowded nor empty: "judges" leads at 0.725, the core circle is "judges", "court", "magistrate", and the top-10 mean is 0.585. Closing in takes a few rounds of probing.

A 0.343 gap (0.725 → 0.382) makes this a flat distribution: no cliff, warmth fades slowly, guesses go "warm" easily but rarely land dead-on.

Watch "prosecutor": it ranks high at 0.572 but heads a different way than "judges". 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 "judge". Highest similarity first. Every entry is part of WordRank's 60k-word vocabulary.

  1. 1judges0.725
  2. 2court0.625
  3. 3magistrate0.609
  4. 4jury0.594
  5. 5prosecutor0.572
  6. 6juror0.570
  7. 7appellate0.552
  8. 8judgment0.550
  9. 9jurors0.529
  10. 10judging0.528
  11. 11judgement0.528
  12. 12judged0.525
  13. 13prosecutors0.510
  14. 14jurist0.507
  15. 15courtroom0.502
  16. 16verdict0.502
  17. 17lawyer0.499
  18. 18tribunal0.496
  19. 19juries0.491
  20. 20courts0.487
  21. 21bailiff0.486
  22. 22ruling0.480
  23. 23adjudicator0.479
  24. 24attorney0.470
  25. 25judicial0.469
  26. 26presiding0.466
  27. 27arbitrator0.463
  28. 28arbiter0.461
  29. 29appeals0.456
  30. 30judiciary0.455
  31. 31justices0.453
  32. 32judgments0.450
  33. 33counsel0.447
  34. 34magistrates0.446
  35. 35judgements0.443
  36. 36judgeship0.441
  37. 37litigant0.439
  38. 38rulings0.437
  39. 39sentencing0.436
  40. 40supreme0.433
  41. 41ruled0.432
  42. 42trial0.432
  43. 43acquit0.431
  44. 44clerk0.430
  45. 45harshly0.429
  46. 46executioner0.428
  47. 47litigants0.426
  48. 48disqualify0.425
  49. 49examiner0.425
  50. 50courthouse0.423
  51. 51retrial0.423
  52. 52overrule0.422
  53. 53recuse0.421
  54. 54attorneys0.420
  55. 55recused0.419
  56. 56solicitor0.417
  57. 57defendant0.416
  58. 58jurists0.415
  59. 59verdicts0.414
  60. 60convict0.413
  61. 61arbiters0.413
  62. 62leniency0.411
  63. 63convicting0.410
  64. 64upheld0.410
  65. 65indict0.408
  66. 66lawyers0.408
  67. 67barrister0.407
  68. 68impartial0.407
  69. 69acquitted0.407
  70. 70contestant0.403
  71. 71accuser0.402
  72. 72convicted0.402
  73. 73arbitrators0.401
  74. 74plead0.399
  75. 75sheriff0.398
  76. 76adjudicate0.398
  77. 77legislator0.398
  78. 78dismiss0.398
  79. 79evaluator0.398
  80. 80coroner0.397
  81. 81judgmental0.397
  82. 82criticize0.397
  83. 83marshal0.397
  84. 84impartially0.395
  85. 85prosecution0.394
  86. 86overruled0.393
  87. 87defendants0.392
  88. 88adjudicated0.392
  89. 89appealed0.391
  90. 90adjudicating0.391
  91. 91testify0.390
  92. 92mediator0.390
  93. 93injunction0.389
  94. 94appointee0.388
  95. 95guilty0.385
  96. 96critic0.385
  97. 97recusal0.384
  98. 98yardstick0.383
  99. 99condemn0.382
  100. 100acquittal0.382

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