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Term: appalling

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

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  2. appalling

appalling

Definitions

Noun

  1. An experience that appalls

Verb

  1. Strike with disgust or revulsion
  2. Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
  3. Strike with disgust or revulsion
  4. Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

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Words that contain the term "appalling".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 appalling 3 9
2 appallingly 4 1

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "appalling".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 receiving 3 34
2 applying 3 29
3 amazing 3 20
4 assuming 3 17
5 appearing 3 16
6 achieving 3 15
7 appealing 3 14
8 adjoining 3 13
9 opposing 3 13
10 supplying 3 13
11 avoiding 3 11
12 assessing 3 10
13 assuring 3 10
14 assigning 3 9
15 attacking 3 9
16 accruing 3 7
17 agreeing 3 7
18 awaiting 3 7
19 attaining 3 6
20 ionizing 4 6
21 possessing 3 6
22 abiding 3 5
23 committing 3 5
24 alerting 3 4
25 asserting 3 4
26 debating 3 4
27 alleging 3 3
28 attaching 3 3
29 averting 3 3
30 maturing 3 3
31 policing 3 3
32 affirming 3 2
33 refining 3 2
34 supposing 3 2
35 undoing 3 2
36 adjourning 3 1
37 aligning 3 1
38 allotting 3 1
39 alluding 3 1
40 alluring 3 1
41 amassing 3 1
42 appeasing 3 1
43 assailing 3 1
44 ballooning 3 1
45 conferring 3 1
46 conveying 3 1
47 divining 3 1
48 massaging 3 1
49 subduing 3 1
50 succumbing 3 1
51 undying 3 1
52 unknowing 3 1
53 unnerving 3 1
54 abating 3 0
55 abetting 3 0
56 abutting 3 0
57 adoring 3 0
58 affining 3 0
59 annealing 3 0
60 cajoling 3 0
61 cocooning 3 0
62 colliding 3 0
63 colluding 3 0
64 concurring 3 0
65 conniving 3 0
66 fatiguing 3 0
67 machining 3 0
68 polluting 3 0
69 rappelling 3 0
70 repelling 3 0
71 saluting 3 0
72 sedating 3 0
73 unearthing 3 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 applying 3 29
2 appearing 3 16
3 appealing 3 14
4 tapping 2 6
5 grappling 2 4
6 sapling 2 2
7 appallingly 4 1
8 appeasing 3 1
9 sapping 2 1
10 appling 3 0
11 rappelling 3 0
12 unappealing 4 0
13 applin 2 0
14 appealingly 4 0
15 appall 2 0
16 alling 2 0
17 zapping 2 0
18 wapping 2 0
19 walling 2 0
20 salling 2 0

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Words That Precede

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Consonant Match

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

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Term

Definitions: 5

Fragments: 2

Sound Alikes: 73

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 0

Consonant Matches: 0

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