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Term: may

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

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may

Definitions

Noun

  1. The month following april and preceding june
  2. Thorny eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern north america
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "may".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 may 1 1402
2 maybe 2 133
3 mayor 2 38
4 mays 1 13
5 mayor's 2 9
6 dismay 2 5
7 mayer 2 5
8 mayflower 3 4
9 dismaying 3 3
10 maye 1 2
11 mayfair 2 2
12 maynard 2 2
13 mayonnaise 3 2
14 mayoral 3 2
15 mays' 1 2
16 dismayed 2 1
17 mayans 2 1
18 mayhem 2 1
19 maynor 2 1
20 mayo 2 1
21 almay 2 0
22 amaya 3 0
23 bartholomay 4 0
24 chimayo 3 0
25 demay 2 0
26 demayo 3 0
27 dismays 2 0
28 ellamay 3 0
29 frohnmayer 3 0
30 gemayel 3 0
31 gemayel's 3 0
32 kismayu 3 0
33 kostmayer 3 0
34 lamay 2 0
35 lemay 2 0
36 may's 1 0
37 maya 2 0
38 mayaguez 3 0
39 mayall 2 0
40 mayan 2 0
41 maybee 2 0
42 maybelle 2 0
43 maybelline 3 0
44 mayben 2 0
45 mayberry 3 0
46 maybin 2 0
47 maybury 3 0
48 maycock 2 0
49 mayda 2 0
50 mayday 2 0
51 mayde 1 0
52 mayden 2 0
53 maydena 3 0
54 mayeaux 2 0
55 mayeda 3 0
56 mayer's 2 0
57 mayernik 3 0
58 mayers 2 0
59 mayerson 3 0
60 mayes 1 0
61 mayeux 2 0
62 mayfield 2 0
63 mayhall 2 0
64 mayhan 2 0
65 mayher 2 0
66 mayhew 2 0
67 mayhue 2 0
68 mayhugh 2 0
69 mayland 2 0
70 mayle 1 0
71 mayme 1 0
72 maynard's 2 0
73 mayne 1 0
74 mayner 2 0
75 maynes 1 0
76 mayon 2 0
77 mayoralty 4 0
78 mayorga 3 0
79 mayors 2 0
80 mayotte 2 0
81 mayr 1 0
82 mayse 1 0
83 mayson 2 0
84 maytag 2 0
85 mayton 2 0
86 mayville 2 0
87 mayweather 3 0
88 momayez 3 0
89 montemayor 4 0
90 neumayer 3 0
91 smay 1 0
92 sotomayor 4 0
93 takashimaya 5 0
94 tamayo 3 0
95 tomayko 3 0
96 tremayne 2 0
97 widmayer 3 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "may".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 mae 1 16
2 maye 1 2
3 mei 1 0
4 mey 1 0
5 smay 1 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 my 1 1318
2 many 2 1030
3 mary 2 87
4 ma 1 19
5 mays 1 13
6 maye 1 2
7 mayo 2 1
8 meaty 2 1
9 smay 1 0
10 mayr 1 0
11 maya 2 0
12 maxy 2 0
13 maly 2 0
14 mady 2 0
15 macy 2 0
16 ay 1 0
17 smaby 2 0
18 omary 3 0
19 moray 2 0
20 mobay 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 may be 1 81
2 may have 1 27
3 may also 2 17
4 may not 1 9
5 may include 2 5
6 may use 1 5
7 may help 1 4
8 may provide 2 3
9 may only 2 3
10 may become 2 3
11 may give 1 3
12 may create 2 2
13 may day 1 2
14 may take 1 2
15 may inhibit 3 2
16 may they 1 2
17 may seem 1 2
18 may do 1 2
19 may well 1 2
20 may find 1 2
21 may go 1 2
22 may play 1 2
23 may develop 3 2
24 may vary 2 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 which may 1 16
2 in may 1 13
3 and may 1 10
4 it may 1 10
5 on may 1 8
6 this may 1 7
7 that may 1 6
8 he may 1 6
9 players may 2 5
10 player may 2 4
11 or may 1 3
12 propaganda may 4 3
13 they may 1 3
14 what may 1 3
15 film may 1 3
16 referee may 3 3
17 cancer may 2 2
18 phenomena may 4 2
19 students may 2 2
20 we may 1 2
21 of may 1 2
22 one may 1 2
23 games may 1 2
24 stress may 1 2
25 production may 3 2
26 ms may 1 2
27 judiciary may 5 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 fictitious 3 2
2 propaganda 4 2
3 found 1 2
4 unavailable 5 2
5 countries 2 2
6 theory 2 2
7 growth 1 2
8 cancer 2 2
9 blood 1 2
10 phenomena 4 2
11 viruses 3 2
12 symptoms 2 2
13 scan 1 2
14 supplements 3 2
15 surgery 3 2
16 excision 3 2
17 chemotherapy 5 2
18 chest 1 2
19 except 2 2
20 convection 3 2
21 stratosphere 3 2
22 temperatures 3 2
23 rings 1 2
24 suggesting 3 2
25 march 1 2
26 haze 1 2
27 ice 1 2
28 population 4 2
29 christianity 5 2
30 critics 2 2
31 radiation 4 2
32 play 1 2
33 shows 1 2
34 structure 2 2
35 gauss 1 2
36 atlas 2 2
37 manifold 3 2
38 asia 2 2
39 products 2 2
40 cylinder 3 2
41 plane 1 2
42 packages 3 2
43 humans 2 2
44 expression 3 2
45 session 2 2
46 filter 2 2
47 camera 3 2
48 decision 3 2
49 units 2 2
50 systems 2 2
51 students 2 2
52 player 2 2
53 grid 1 2
54 groups 1 2
55 females 2 2
56 whilst 1 2
57 displays 2 2
58 size 1 2
59 singing 2 2
60 songs 1 2
61 song 1 2
62 whales 1 2
63 area 3 2
64 pages 2 2
65 page 1 2
66 data 2 2
67 site 1 2
68 performance 3 2
69 performer 3 2
70 history 3 2
71 performers 3 2
72 tune 1 2
73 audience 3 2
74 performed 2 2
75 classes 2 2
76 needed 2 2
77 soups 1 2
78 time 1 2
79 treatment 2 2
80 exist 2 2
81 vowels 2 2
82 discoveries 4 2
83 lobby 2 2
84 council 2 2
85 although 2 2
86 belt 1 2
87 london 2 2
88 one 1 2
89 class 1 2
90 ideas 3 2
91 register 3 2
92 results 2 2
93 code 1 2
94 may 1 2
95 claim 1 2
96 signed 1 2
97 salts 1 2
98 cravings 2 2
99 salt 1 2
100 deposits 3 2
101 medications 4 2
102 players 2 2
103 games 1 2
104 two 1 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 man 1 1207
2 men 1 763
3 mrs. 2 534
4 met 1 132
5 man's 1 125
6 mad 1 39
7 mud 1 32
8 men's 1 19
9 mae 1 16
10 map 1 13
11 mix 1 13
12 max 1 12
13 mob 1 10
14 mel 1 8
15 mao 1 7
16 man-made 2 6
17 mat 1 5
18 mee 1 5
19 min 1 5
20 mar 1 4
21 mid 1 3
22 mom 1 3
23 mop 1 3
24 mph 3 3
25 mah 1 2
26 maw 1 2
27 max's 2 2
28 mea 1 2
29 meg 1 2
30 mac 1 1
31 mae's 1 1
32 mag 1 1
33 mai 1 1
34 mal 1 1
35 mew 1 1
36 mgm 3 1
37 mig 1 1
38 mob's 1 1
39 moi 1 1
40 mom's 1 1
41 mon 1 1
42 mor 1 1
43 mrs 2 1
44 mug 1 1
45 mum 1 1
46 mab 1 0
47 mac's 1 0
48 maj 1 0
49 mak 1 0
50 mak-kwan 2 0
51 mal's 1 0
52 mam 1 0
53 mao's 1 0
54 mas 1 0
55 mau 1 0
56 mav 1 0
57 may's 1 0
58 maz 1 0
59 mba 3 0
60 med 1 0
61 mei 1 0
62 mei-ling 2 0
63 mel's 1 0
64 meo 2 0
65 mer 1 0
66 met's 1 0
67 mex 1 0
68 mey 1 0
69 mez 1 0
70 mhm 2 0
71 mia 2 0
72 mib 1 0
73 mic 1 0
74 mil 1 0
75 mim 1 0
76 mir 1 0
77 mir's 1 0
78 mis 1 0
79 mit 3 0
80 mix-up 2 0
81 mod 1 0
82 moe 1 0
83 mof 1 0
84 mok 1 0
85 mol 1 0
86 moo 1 0
87 mor's 1 0
88 mos 1 0
89 mow 1 0
90 moy 1 0
91 mpg 3 0
92 mtv 3 0
93 mui 2 0
94 mul's 1 0
95 mum's 1 0
96 mun 1 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 2

Fragments: 97

Sound Alikes: 5

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 24

Words that Precede: 27

Statistically Associated: 104

Consonant Matches: 96

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

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