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Term: hard

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

  1. Term
  2. hard

hard

Definitions

Adjective

  1. Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
  2. Dispassionate
  3. Resisting weight or pressure
  4. Produced without vibration of the vocal cords
  5. (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
  6. (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

Adverb

  1. With effort or force or vigor
  2. With firmness
  3. Earnestly or intently
  4. Causing great damage or hardship
  5. Slowly and with difficulty
  6. Indulging excessively
  7. Into a solid condition
  8. Very near or close in space or time
  9. With pain or distress or bitterness
  10. To the full extent possible; all the way
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "hard".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 hard 1 202
2 hardly 2 106
3 richard 2 71
4 hardy 2 42
5 harder 2 23
6 hardy's 2 15
7 hardened 2 12
8 richardson 3 12
9 hardest 2 11
10 hardware 2 11
11 richards 2 10
12 hardship 2 9
13 hardships 2 5
14 orchards 2 5
15 richard's 2 5
16 hardwick 2 3
17 orchard 2 3
18 bernhardt 2 2
19 blanchard 2 2
20 blanchard's 2 2
21 foolhardy 3 2
22 harding 2 2
23 hardness 2 2
24 reinhard 2 2
25 reinhardt 2 2
26 trenchard 2 2
27 bernhard 2 1
28 burckhardt 2 1
29 burghardt 2 1
30 diehard 2 1
31 diehards 2 1
32 gerhard 2 1
33 hardboard 2 1
34 hardee's 2 1
35 harden 2 1
36 hardener 3 1
37 hardscrabble 3 1
38 hardwicke 2 1
39 hardwoods 2 1
40 hardworking 3 1
41 richards' 2 1
42 richardson's 3 1
43 shards 1 1
44 archard 2 0
45 barnhard 2 0
46 barnhardt 2 0
47 baumhardt 2 0
48 bechard 2 0
49 bethard 2 0
50 bethards 2 0
51 birchard 2 0
52 blanchards 2 0
53 blowhard 2 0
54 blowhards 2 0
55 borchard 2 0
56 borchardt 2 0
57 bosshardt 2 0
58 bouchard 2 0
59 brouhard 3 0
60 burchard 2 0
61 burckhard 2 0
62 burkhard 2 0
63 burkhardt 2 0
64 bushard 2 0
65 chard 1 0
66 chardonnay 3 0
67 chardonnays 3 0
68 coulthard 2 0
69 degenhardt 3 0
70 earnhardt 2 0
71 eberhard 3 0
72 eberhardt 3 0
73 echard 2 0
74 eckhard 2 0
75 eckhardt 2 0
76 ehrhard 2 0
77 ehrhardt 2 0
78 eisenhardt 3 0
79 ekkehard 2 0
80 engelhard 3 0
81 engelhardt 3 0
82 englehardt 3 0
83 erhard 2 0
84 erhardt 2 0
85 everhardt 3 0
86 gebhard 2 0
87 gebhardt 2 0
88 gephardt 2 0
89 gephardt's 2 0
90 gerhardt 2 0
91 gothard 2 0
92 gotthardt 2 0
93 guichard 2 0
94 hard-ass 2 0
95 hard-working 3 0
96 hardacre 3 0
97 hardage 2 0
98 hardart 2 0
99 hardaway 3 0
100 hardback 2 0
101 hardball 2 0
102 hardcastle 3 0
103 hardcastle's 3 0
104 hardcore 2 0
105 hardcover 3 0
106 hardcovers 3 0
107 hardebeck 2 0
108 hardee 2 0
109 hardegree 3 0
110 hardeman 2 0
111 harden's 2 0
112 hardenbrook 3 0
113 hardeners 3 0
114 hardening 3 0
115 hardens 2 0
116 harders 2 0
117 hardesty 3 0
118 hardey 2 0
119 hardgood 2 0
120 hardgoods 2 0
121 hardgrave 2 0
122 hardgrove 2 0
123 hardhead 2 0
124 hardheaded 3 0
125 hardick 2 0
126 hardie 2 0
127 hardier 3 0
128 hardiest 3 0
129 hardigree 3 0
130 hardiman 3 0
131 hardimon 3 0
132 hardin 2 0
133 harding's 2 0
134 hardinger 3 0
135 hardison 3 0
136 hardister 3 0
137 hardisty 3 0
138 hardline 2 0
139 hardliner 3 0
140 hardliners 3 0
141 hardman 2 0
142 hardnett 2 0
143 hardpressed 2 0
144 hardrick 2 0
145 hards 1 0
146 hardt 1 0
147 hardtke 2 0
148 hardway 2 0
149 hardwin 2 0
150 hardwired 3 0
151 hardwood 2 0
152 hardwork 2 0
153 hardymon 3 0
154 lenhard 2 0
155 lenhardt 2 0
156 leonhard 3 0
157 leonhardt 2 0
158 lienhard 2 0
159 linhardt 2 0
160 luckhardt 2 0
161 meinhardt 2 0
162 neidhardt 2 0
163 newhard 2 0
164 pichardo 3 0
165 poshard 2 0
166 prichard 2 0
167 pritchard 2 0
168 reichard 2 0
169 reichardt 2 0
170 reighard 2 0
171 rhinehardt 2 0
172 richards's 3 0
173 richardsonsmith 4 0
174 richardt 2 0
175 rinehardt 2 0
176 schardt 1 0
177 schuchard 2 0
178 schuchardt 2 0
179 schweighardt 2 0
180 sephardic 3 0
181 sephardim 3 0
182 shard 1 0
183 shephard 2 0
184 southard 2 0
185 steinhardt 2 0
186 steinhardt's 2 0
187 suchard 2 0
188 suthard 2 0
189 weinhardt 2 0
190 whichard 2 0
191 wishard 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "hard".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 horde 1 2
2 hord 1 1
3 haired 1 0
4 hoard 1 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 had 1 5133
2 heard 1 247
3 hardy 2 42
4 shared 1 40
5 howard 2 32
6 shards 1 1
7 shard 1 0
8 huard 1 0
9 hoard 1 0
10 hardt 1 0
11 hards 1 0
12 chard 1 0
13 har 1 0
14 ard 1 0
15 sheard 1 0
16 hotard 2 0
17 hoards 1 0
18 heward 2 0
19 henard 2 0
20 hebard 2 0

Words That Follow

Words that often follow the term "hard" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 hard core 1 3
2 hard to 1 2

Words That Precede

Words that often precede the term "hard" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 the hard 1 3
2 were hard 1 2

Statistically Associated

Words that are statistically associated with "hard" in the same piece of text.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 executioners 5 2
2 years 1 2
3 found 1 2
4 used 1 2
5 fell 1 2
6 capacity 4 2
7 local 2 2

Consonant Match

Words that contain the same consonants as the term "hard".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 herd 1 22
2 hord 1 1
3 hard-ass 2 0
4 hard-working 3 0
5 hird 1 0
6 hurd 1 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 16

Fragments: 191

Sound Alikes: 4

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 2

Words that Precede: 2

Statistically Associated: 7

Consonant Matches: 6

Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.

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