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Term: ergots

All the wordplay possibilities with the word "ergots": spelling, phonetic, and semantic.

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ergots

Definitions

Noun

  1. A plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
  2. A fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

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Words that contain the term "ergots".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 ergots 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "ergots".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 currents 2 9
2 circuits 2 4
3 workouts 2 3
4 turnouts 2 2
5 berlet's 2 0
6 circuit's 2 0
7 current's 2 0
8 ergot's 2 0
9 herbert's 2 0
10 hermits 2 0
11 herwitz 2 0
12 hurvitz 2 0
13 hurwitz 2 0
14 merlots 2 0
15 perverts 2 0
16 termites 2 0
17 thermits 2 0

Spelled Like

Words that are spelled similarly to the term "ergots".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 roots 1 27
2 rots 1 3
3 egotism 4 3
4 eros 2 2
5 egotist 3 2
6 zeros 2 2
7 riots 2 1
8 ergot's 2 0
9 ergot 2 0
10 ergotism 4 0
11 perots 2 0
12 ergo 2 0
13 egos 2 0
14 perot's 2 0
15 merlots 2 0
16 hergott 2 0
17 werts 1 0
18 trots 1 0
19 roths 1 0
20 perot 2 0

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Words That Precede

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Statistically Associated

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Term

Definitions: 2

Fragments: 1

Sound Alikes: 17

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 0

Consonant Matches: 0

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