background
Definitions
Noun
- A person's social heritage: previous experience or training
- The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
- Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
- Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
- The state of the environment in which a situation exists
- (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- Scenery hung at back of stage
Verb
- Understate the importance or quality of
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "background".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | background | 2 | 67 |
| 2 | backgrounds | 2 | 7 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "background".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bageland | 3 | 0 |
| 2 | bauernfeind | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | bloodhound | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | bookstand | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | broadband | 2 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "background".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | around | 2 | 562 |
| 2 | ground | 1 | 186 |
| 3 | round | 1 | 75 |
| 4 | grounds | 1 | 58 |
| 5 | backgrounds | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | grounded | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | playground | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | campground | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | battleground | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | grounder | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | aground | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | backlund | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | backend | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | ackroyd | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | fairground | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | backgammon | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | battlegrounds | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | playgrounds | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | grund | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | gronlund | 2 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "background" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | background and | 1 | 2 |
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "background" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | style background | 1 | 2 |
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "background" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accurate | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | reflective | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | affluent | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | inspired | 3 | 2 |
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "background".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Results:
Term
Definitions: 9
Fragments: 2
Sound Alikes: 5
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 1
Words that Precede: 1
Statistically Associated: 4
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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