corrections
Definitions
Noun
- The department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders
- The social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
- The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- Something substituted for an error
- A rebuke for making a mistake
- A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
- The act of punishing
- Treatment of a specific defect
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "corrections".
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "corrections".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | correct | 2 | 52 |
| 2 | reactions | 3 | 42 |
| 3 | corporations | 4 | 25 |
| 4 | correlation | 4 | 16 |
| 5 | connections | 3 | 15 |
| 6 | collections | 3 | 8 |
| 7 | correction | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | creations | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | correctness | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | correlations | 4 | 2 |
| 11 | rejections | 3 | 1 |
| 12 | correctional | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | correcting | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | corrects | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | corruptions | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | confections | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | erections | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | overreaction | 5 | 0 |
| 19 | contractions | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | complections | 3 | 0 |
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Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "corrections" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
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| 1 | radio | 3 | 2 |
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 9
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 62
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 1
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
This Word in the News:
Spanberger ends ICE agreement involving Virginia State Police and corrections officers
Feb 4, 2026 Virginia Mercury
Feb 4, 2026 Virginia Mercury