dependent
Definitions
Noun
- A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
Adjective
- Relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "dependent".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | independent | 4 | 70 |
| 2 | dependent | 3 | 40 |
| 3 | independently | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | interdependent | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | dependents | 3 | 2 |
| 6 | independents | 4 | 1 |
| 7 | overdependent | 5 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "dependent".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | document | 3 | 13 |
| 2 | advancement | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | defendant | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | debutante | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | detachment | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | descendant | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | detriment | 3 | 2 |
| 8 | deployment | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | discernment | 3 | 1 |
| 10 | downpayment | 3 | 1 |
| 11 | daigrepont | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | debarment | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | debasement | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | declarant | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | defoliant | 4 | 0 |
| 16 | depressant | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | derailment | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | descendent | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | devincent | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | disorient | 4 | 0 |
| 21 | dispersant | 3 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "dependent".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | independent | 4 | 70 |
| 2 | depend | 2 | 45 |
| 3 | depending | 3 | 32 |
| 4 | dependence | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | independently | 5 | 12 |
| 6 | depended | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | interdependent | 5 | 8 |
| 8 | expedient | 4 | 7 |
| 9 | defendant | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | dependency | 4 | 3 |
| 11 | dependents | 3 | 2 |
| 12 | despondent | 3 | 2 |
| 13 | decedent | 3 | 2 |
| 14 | independents | 4 | 1 |
| 15 | resplendent | 3 | 1 |
| 16 | descendents | 3 | 1 |
| 17 | descendent | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | overdependent | 5 | 0 |
| 19 | denden | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | decedents | 3 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "dependent" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dependent on | 1 | 5 |
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "dependent" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "dependent" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | economies | 4 | 2 |
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "dependent".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Results:
Term
Definitions: 3
Fragments: 7
Sound Alikes: 21
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 1
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.
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