Puzzle 23 answer: expect

Word of 2026-10-21

The 100 nearest words

Rank	Word	Similarity
1	anticipate	69.49
2	expected	68.62
3	expecting	68.14
4	want	61.59
5	know	60.18
6	expects	58.76
7	will	58.51
8	think	57.88
9	say	57.73
10	would	57.25
11	might	56.81
12	happen	56.33
13	foresee	56.28
14	should	56.20
15	assume	56.18
16	imagine	55.87
17	come	55.70
18	don	55.55
19	wouldn	55.28
20	intend	55.22
21	likely	55.17
22	see	55.09
23	surprised	54.91
24	can	54.68
25	believe	54.18
26	need	53.46
27	presume	53.33
28	expectation	53.33
29	mean	52.59
30	suppose	52.31
31	like	51.95
32	able	51.70
33	could	51.53
34	you	51.16
35	do	51.16
36	tell	50.56
37	disappoint	50.46
38	wait	50.26
39	have	50.24
40	predict	50.10
41	suggest	50.00
42	seem	49.93
43	certainly	49.63
44	realistically	49.52
45	what	49.27
46	going	49.22
47	shouldn	49.04
48	get	48.93
49	probably	48.87
50	ask	48.82
51	guess	48.63
52	not	48.43
53	surely	48.42
54	even	48.38
55	ought	48.12
56	understand	48.12
57	behoove	48.02
58	tend	48.00
59	dare	47.82
60	honestly	47.80
61	hear	47.68
62	prefer	47.46
63	envision	47.30
64	did	47.28
65	envisage	47.27
66	complain	47.25
67	realize	47.14
68	hoped	47.12
69	surmise	46.96
70	didn	46.68
71	speculate	46.53
72	exactly	46.53
73	hoping	46.50
74	suprised	46.34
75	unlikely	46.23
76	continue	46.23
77	anticipated	46.17
78	give	46.07
79	consider	46.02
80	willing	45.97
81	happens	45.80
82	let	45.78
83	doubt	45.63
84	wonder	45.54
85	disappointed	45.42
86	they	45.33
87	definitely	45.30
88	anticipating	45.29
89	assure	45.24
90	reckon	45.11
91	anything	45.07
92	bother	45.03
93	normally	44.96
94	possibly	44.86
95	hope	44.84
96	wont	44.77
97	really	44.57
98	conclude	44.53
99	may	44.45
100	astonish	44.38

Similarity reflects how words are used together in text, so it can differ from a dictionary sense.

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