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Term: penalty

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

  1. Term
  2. penalty

penalty

Definitions

Noun

  1. The act of punishing
  2. A payment required for not fulfilling a contract
  3. The disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition
  4. (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of 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 "penalty".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 penalty 3 14

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "penalty".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 property 3 156
2 purity 3 12
3 specialty 3 4
4 probity 3 1
5 puberty 3 1
6 pallante 3 0
7 paoletti 4 0
8 parente 3 0
9 parenti 3 0
10 passante 3 0
11 pavarotti 4 0
12 pedretti 3 0
13 pedrotti 3 0
14 pizzuti 3 0
15 ponzetti 3 0
16 presutti 3 0
17 previti 3 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 plenty 2 55
2 personality 5 48
3 openly 3 34
4 specialty 3 4
5 penalties 3 4
6 mentality 4 3
7 realty 3 2
8 penal 2 1
9 pearly 2 1
10 fealty 3 1
11 pena 2 1
12 venality 4 0
13 pennwalt 2 0
14 penley 2 0
15 paltry 2 0
16 geniality 5 0
17 pent 1 0
18 pelt 1 0
19 peay 1 0
20 peat 1 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 penalty shootout 2 3
2 penalty mark 1 3
3 penalty area 3 2
4 penalty kick 1 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 a penalty 1 5
2 the penalty 1 5
3 or penalty 1 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 surveillance 3 2
2 performance 3 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Results:

Term

Definitions: 4

Fragments: 1

Sound Alikes: 17

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 4

Words that Precede: 3

Statistically Associated: 2

Consonant Matches: 0

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

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Secret orders, requests for recusal bog down Colorado’s death penalty prosecution
Jul 13, 2026 Colorado Politics

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