engineering
Definitions
Noun
- The practical application of science to commerce or industry
- The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems
- A room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located
Verb
- Design as an engineer
- Plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "engineering".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engineering | 4 | 46 |
| 2 | bioengineering | 6 | 0 |
| 3 | reengineering | 5 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "engineering".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | penetrating | 4 | 14 |
| 2 | recognizing | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | exercising | 4 | 6 |
| 4 | celebrating | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | devastating | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | emphasizing | 4 | 4 |
| 7 | regulating | 4 | 4 |
| 8 | designating | 4 | 3 |
| 9 | estimating | 4 | 2 |
| 10 | metalworking | 4 | 2 |
| 11 | emigrating | 4 | 1 |
| 12 | exploiting | 3 | 1 |
| 13 | paraphrasing | 4 | 1 |
| 14 | reconciling | 4 | 1 |
| 15 | segregating | 4 | 1 |
| 16 | ventilating | 4 | 1 |
| 17 | checkerboarding | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | denigrating | 4 | 0 |
| 19 | deprecating | 4 | 0 |
| 20 | emulating | 4 | 0 |
| 21 | escalating | 4 | 0 |
| 22 | federalizing | 5 | 0 |
| 23 | generalizing | 5 | 0 |
| 24 | gentrifying | 4 | 0 |
| 25 | legislating | 4 | 0 |
| 26 | recognising | 4 | 0 |
| 27 | recordkeeping | 4 | 0 |
| 28 | replicating | 4 | 0 |
| 29 | retrofitting | 4 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "engineering".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engineer | 3 | 42 |
| 2 | engineers | 3 | 33 |
| 3 | entering | 3 | 24 |
| 4 | interfering | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | registering | 4 | 4 |
| 6 | pioneering | 4 | 3 |
| 7 | engineers' | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | endangering | 4 | 3 |
| 9 | domineering | 4 | 2 |
| 10 | sneering | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | reengineering | 5 | 0 |
| 12 | bioengineering | 6 | 0 |
| 13 | imagineering | 5 | 0 |
| 14 | reengineer | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | engineered | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | engineer's | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | enneking | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | angering | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | oceaneering | 4 | 0 |
| 20 | bioengineer | 5 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "engineering" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "engineering" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | of engineering | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | and engineering | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | biomedical engineering | 5 | 2 |
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "engineering" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | school | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | five | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | average | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | biomedical | 5 | 2 |
| 5 | mechanical | 4 | 2 |
| 6 | national | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | science | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | internet | 3 | 2 |
| 9 | scientific | 4 | 2 |
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "engineering".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Results:
Term
Definitions: 5
Fragments: 3
Sound Alikes: 29
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 3
Statistically Associated: 9
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:
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