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Term: african

All the wordplay possibilities with the word "african": spelling, phonetic, and semantic.

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african

Definitions

Noun

  1. A native or inhabitant of africa

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to the nations of africa or their peoples
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "african".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 african 3 28
2 africans 3 4
3 african-american 7 0
4 african-americans 7 0
5 africanist 4 0
6 africanist's 4 0
7 africanists 4 0
8 africanize 4 0
9 africanized 4 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "african".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 algernon 3 0
2 alliston 3 0
3 castanon 3 0
4 castillon 3 0

Spelled Like

Words that are spelled similarly to the term "african".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 american 4 569
2 africa 3 45
3 africans 3 4
4 varian 3 2
5 ricans 2 2
6 rican 2 1
7 fricano 3 0
8 arian 3 0
9 africanize 4 0
10 africanist 4 0
11 africa's 3 0
12 africanized 4 0
13 africanists 4 0
14 affrication 4 0
15 safran 2 0
16 safian 3 0
17 marian 3 0
18 farica 3 0
19 ariane 3 0
20 ariana 4 0

Words That Follow

Words that often follow the term "african" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 african american 4 89
2 african americans 4 15
3 african republic 3 4
4 african war 1 4
5 african art 1 3
6 african descent 2 2
7 african diaspora 4 2
8 african civilians 3 2

Words That Precede

Words that often precede the term "african" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 of african 1 25
2 south african 1 10
3 the african 1 8
4 and african 1 5
5 as african 1 4
6 first african 1 4
7 that african 1 3
8 by african 1 3
9 an african 1 3
10 for african 1 3
11 many african 2 3
12 central african 2 3
13 black african 1 3
14 with african 1 2
15 important african 3 2
16 to african 1 2
17 prominent african 3 2
18 free african 1 2

Statistically Associated

Words that are statistically associated with "african" in the same piece of text.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 first 1 8
2 role 1 4
3 said 1 4
4 important 3 4
5 fiction 2 4
6 prominent 3 4
7 within 2 4
8 view 1 4
9 many 2 4
10 central 2 4
11 writers 2 2
12 explored 2 2
13 people 2 2
14 including 3 2
15 themes 1 2
16 literature 4 2
17 great 1 2
18 influencing 4 2
19 appears 2 2
20 levels 2 2
21 analyze 3 2
22 piece 1 2
23 recognition 4 2
24 early 2 2
25 returned 2 2
26 novel 2 2
27 mainstay 2 2
28 writings 2 2
29 number 2 2
30 condition 3 2
31 describe 2 2
32 believed 2 2
33 leading 2 2
34 attention 3 2
35 based 1 2
36 female 2 2
37 point 1 2
38 books 1 2
39 migration 3 2
40 work 1 2
41 define 2 2
42 defining 3 2
43 influential 4 2
44 saw 1 2
45 young 1 2
46 brought 1 2
47 years 1 2
48 life 1 2
49 somehow 2 2
50 though 1 2
51 aspects 2 2
52 whether 2 2
53 argue 2 2
54 like 1 2
55 criticism 4 2
56 struggle 2 2
57 integration 4 2
58 historically 5 2
59 performers 3 2
60 german 2 2

Consonant Match

Words that contain the same consonants as the term "african".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 african-american 7 0
2 african-americans 7 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 2

Fragments: 9

Sound Alikes: 4

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 8

Words that Precede: 18

Statistically Associated: 60

Consonant Matches: 2

Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.

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