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Term: attrition

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

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attrition

Definitions

Noun

  1. Erosion by friction
  2. The wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
  3. Sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
  4. A wearing down to weaken or destroy
  5. The act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

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Words that contain the term "attrition".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 attrition 3 5

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "attrition".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 attention 3 179
2 opinion 3 96
3 condition 3 91
4 collection 3 84
5 connection 3 69
6 selection 3 39
7 suggestion 3 34
8 suspicion 3 27
9 succession 3 25
10 civilian 3 24
11 uncertain 3 22
12 conversion 3 21
13 policeman 3 19
14 affection 3 18
15 abandon 3 17
16 confession 3 17
17 mcclellan 3 13
18 adoption 3 11
19 aggression 3 10
20 dominion 3 8
21 uncommon 3 8
22 canadian 4 7
23 napoleon 4 7
24 regression 3 7
25 suppression 3 7
26 abortion 3 6
27 oppression 3 6
28 comedian 4 5
29 compassion 3 5
30 mammalian 4 5
31 obsession 3 5
32 pavilion 3 4
33 secretion 3 4
34 submission 3 4
35 accretion 3 3
36 addiction 3 3
37 battalion 3 3
38 concession 3 3
39 macpherson 3 3
40 arabian 4 2
41 assyrian 4 2
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43 contagion 3 2
44 mcnaughton 3 2
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47 apportion 3 1
48 concussion 3 1
49 machinegun 3 1
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51 mccracken 3 1
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53 mcquillan 3 1
54 patrician 3 1
55 subversion 3 1
56 unshaven 3 1
57 abrasion 3 0
58 accession 3 0
59 akkadian 4 0
60 alaskan 3 0
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66 avakian 4 0
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75 collodion 4 0
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80 delorean 4 0
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85 fundacion 3 0
86 hagopian 4 0
87 haselton 3 0
88 hoselton 3 0
89 janardhan 3 0
90 kachigian 4 0
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92 kazarian 4 0
93 khachigian 4 0
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195 ungermann 3 0
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198 valerian 4 0
199 zakarian 4 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 attention 3 179
2 tradition 3 94
3 variation 4 32
4 transition 3 32
5 variations 4 23
6 traditions 3 21
7 attraction 3 15
8 attractions 3 9
9 nutrition 3 8
10 partition 3 6
11 tuition 3 5
12 saturation 4 5
13 malnutrition 4 4
14 attributing 4 3
15 attribution 4 0
16 triton 2 0
17 catterton 3 0
18 repatriation 5 0
19 expatriation 5 0
20 martion 2 0

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Term

Definitions: 5

Fragments: 1

Sound Alikes: 199

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 0

Consonant Matches: 0

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