authorities
Definitions
Noun
- The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
- The power or right to give orders or make decisions
- (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others
- An expert whose views are taken as definitive
- Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- An administrative unit of government
- Official permission or approval
- An authoritative written work
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "authorities".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | authorities | 4 | 39 |
| 2 | authorities' | 4 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "authorities".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | facilities | 4 | 100 |
| 2 | commodities | 4 | 21 |
| 3 | necessities | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | assemblies | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | velocities | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | capacities | 4 | 5 |
| 7 | monopolies | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | analogies | 4 | 4 |
| 9 | academies | 4 | 3 |
| 10 | authority's | 4 | 3 |
| 11 | majorities | 4 | 3 |
| 12 | fatalities | 4 | 2 |
| 13 | philosophies | 4 | 2 |
| 14 | affinities | 4 | 1 |
| 15 | anomalies | 4 | 1 |
| 16 | calamities | 4 | 1 |
| 17 | maturities | 4 | 1 |
| 18 | academy's | 4 | 0 |
| 19 | advisories | 4 | 0 |
| 20 | amenities | 4 | 0 |
| 21 | assembly's | 3 | 0 |
| 22 | authorities' | 4 | 0 |
| 23 | banalities | 4 | 0 |
| 24 | commodity's | 4 | 0 |
| 25 | domenici's | 4 | 0 |
| 26 | facility's | 4 | 0 |
| 27 | fidelities | 4 | 0 |
| 28 | fidelity's | 4 | 0 |
| 29 | gazonsky's | 3 | 0 |
| 30 | kaczynski's | 3 | 0 |
| 31 | majority's | 4 | 0 |
| 32 | mcaleese's | 4 | 0 |
| 33 | mccartney's | 3 | 0 |
| 34 | mclarty's | 3 | 0 |
| 35 | modalities | 4 | 0 |
| 36 | panopolys | 4 | 0 |
| 37 | pathologies | 4 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "authorities".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | authority | 4 | 93 |
| 2 | authorized | 3 | 37 |
| 3 | authors | 2 | 23 |
| 4 | theories | 2 | 20 |
| 5 | authoritative | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | thirties | 2 | 7 |
| 7 | authorizations | 5 | 6 |
| 8 | authorize | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | authoritarian | 6 | 5 |
| 10 | authority's | 4 | 3 |
| 11 | arthritis | 3 | 3 |
| 12 | majorities | 4 | 3 |
| 13 | authorizes | 4 | 2 |
| 14 | atrocities | 4 | 2 |
| 15 | authorization | 5 | 2 |
| 16 | authoritarianism | 8 | 2 |
| 17 | authoritatively | 6 | 1 |
| 18 | maturities | 4 | 1 |
| 19 | authorities' | 4 | 0 |
| 20 | rarities | 3 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "authorities" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "authorities" in a sentence.
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "authorities" in the same piece of text.
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "authorities".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | authorities' | 4 | 0 |
Results:
Term
Definitions: 8
Fragments: 2
Sound Alikes: 37
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 2
Statistically Associated: 6
Consonant Matches: 1
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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