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Term: mate

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

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mate

Definitions

Noun

  1. The officer below the master on a commercial ship
  2. A fellow member of a team
  3. The partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
  4. A person's partner in marriage
  5. An exact duplicate
  6. One of a pair
  7. South american holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
  8. Informal term for a friend of the same sex
  9. South american tea-like drink made from leaves of a south american holly called mate
  10. A chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king

Verb

  1. Engage in sexual intercourse
  2. Bring two objects, ideas, or people together
  3. Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "mate".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 material 4 174
2 materials 4 97
3 approximately 5 71
4 estimated 4 67
5 ultimate 3 59
6 estimate 3 39
7 climate 2 26
8 amateur 3 25
9 estimates 3 24
10 ultimately 4 23
11 intimate 3 21
12 mate 1 21
13 legitimate 4 16
14 approximate 4 11
15 mates 1 10
16 materialism 6 7
17 inmates 2 6
18 intimately 4 6
19 animated 4 5
20 approximated 5 5
21 intimated 4 5
22 materially 5 5
23 maternal 3 5
24 classmates 2 4
25 consummated 4 4
26 mated 2 4
27 underestimate 5 4
28 amateurish 4 3
29 classmate 2 3
30 consummate 3 3
31 illegitimate 5 3
32 materialize 5 3
33 proximate 3 3
34 amateurs 3 2
35 automated 4 2
36 immaterial 5 2
37 inanimate 4 2
38 legitimately 5 2
39 mater 2 2
40 materialistic 6 2
41 materiel 4 2
42 playmate 2 2
43 playmates 2 2
44 roommates 2 2
45 schoolmates 2 2
46 shipmate 2 2
47 stalemate 2 2
48 teammate 2 2
49 teammates 2 2
50 underestimated 6 2
51 amalgamated 5 1
52 animate 3 1
53 automate 3 1
54 climates 2 1
55 cremate 2 1
56 cremated 3 1
57 inmate 2 1
58 mateo 3 1
59 materialized 5 1
60 materials' 4 1
61 overestimated 6 1
62 overestimates 5 1
63 penultimate 4 1
64 primate 2 1
65 primates 2 1
66 roommate 2 1
67 schoolmate 2 1
68 shipmates 2 1
69 acclimate 3 0
70 acclimated 4 0
71 amalgamate 4 0
72 amalgamated's 5 0
73 amalgamates 4 0
74 amateurism 5 0
75 animates 3 0
76 approximates 4 0
77 automates 3 0
78 biomaterial 6 0
79 biomaterials 6 0
80 breakmate 2 0
81 checkmate 2 0
82 checkmates 2 0
83 consummates 3 0
84 decimate 3 0
85 decimated 4 0
86 delamater 4 0
87 dichromate 3 0
88 glucosamate 4 0
89 glutamate 3 0
90 guesstimate 3 0
91 guesstimates 3 0
92 inmate's 2 0
93 intimates 3 0
94 matecki 3 0
95 mateer 2 0
96 mateja 3 0
97 matejka 3 0
98 matell 2 0
99 matelski 3 0
100 matera 3 0
101 materialist 5 0
102 materiality 6 0
103 materializes 6 0
104 materializing 6 0
105 materiels 4 0
106 matern 2 0
107 materna 3 0
108 maternity 4 0
109 matewan 3 0
110 matey 2 0
111 microclimate 4 0
112 microclimates 4 0
113 multimate 3 0
114 overestimate 5 0
115 palmateer 3 0
116 papermate 3 0
117 phonemate 2 0
118 sematech 3 0
119 shoemate 2 0
120 shumate 2 0
121 stalemated 3 0
122 underestimates 5 0
123 unimate 3 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "mate".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 m-8 2 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 mae 1 16
2 ate 1 16
3 mates 1 10
4 mat 1 5
5 mated 2 4
6 mater 2 2
7 mateo 3 1
8 maute 1 0
9 matte 1 0
10 mathe 1 0
11 matey 2 0
12 marte 1 0
13 mutate 2 0
14 moates 2 0
15 mcfate 2 0
16 mcatee 3 0
17 mauthe 1 0
18 matzke 2 0
19 matzen 2 0
20 matzek 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 competition 4 2
2 role 1 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 myth 1 35
2 math 1 4
3 matt 1 3
4 mute 1 3
5 mats 1 2
6 mets 1 2
7 mite 1 1
8 moth 1 1
9 mata 2 0
10 mato 2 0
11 matt's 1 0
12 matz 1 0
13 meta 2 0
14 mete 1 0
15 meth 1 0
16 mets' 1 0
17 metz 1 0
18 mita 2 0
19 miti 2 0
20 mitt 1 0
21 mota 2 0
22 mote 1 0
23 moti 2 0
24 motl 2 0
25 moto 2 0
26 mots 1 0
27 mott 1 0
28 mott's 1 0
29 motz 1 0
30 muth 1 0
31 muti 2 0
32 mutt 1 0
33 mutz 1 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 13

Fragments: 123

Sound Alikes: 1

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 2

Consonant Matches: 33

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

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