period
Definitions
Noun
- An amount of time
- The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
- (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
- A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
- The end or completion of something
- The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; ; --hippocrates; --aristotle
- A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
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Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "period".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | period | 3 | 265 |
| 2 | periods | 3 | 47 |
| 3 | periodic | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | periodically | 6 | 6 |
| 5 | periodicals | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | periodical | 5 | 4 |
| 7 | period's | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | periodontal | 5 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "period".
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "period".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | periods | 3 | 47 |
| 2 | periodic | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | prod | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | pernod | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | period's | 3 | 0 |
| 6 | perito | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | perino | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | perigo | 3 | 0 |
| 9 | penrod | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | pero | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | priroda | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | prihoda | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | pherigo | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | petrino | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | persico | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | perrino | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | perrigo | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | perillo | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | peridot | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | perfidy | 3 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "period" in a sentence.
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "period" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | this period | 1 | 14 |
| 2 | a period | 1 | 9 |
| 3 | time period | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | short period | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | same period | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | long period | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | the period | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | baroque period | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | brief period | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | classical period | 3 | 2 |
| 11 | romantic period | 3 | 2 |
| 12 | practice period | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | that period | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | colonial period | 4 | 2 |
| 15 | first period | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | playing period | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | gupta period | 2 | 2 |
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "period" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | rotational | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | giving | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | short | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | time | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | attention | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | novelist | 3 | 2 |
| 8 | following | 3 | 2 |
| 9 | cretaceous | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | extending | 3 | 2 |
| 11 | small | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | brief | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | gestation | 3 | 2 |
| 14 | developed | 3 | 2 |
| 15 | slowly | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | classical | 3 | 2 |
| 17 | style | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | governed | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | orbital | 3 | 2 |
| 20 | transitional | 4 | 2 |
| 21 | given | 2 | 2 |
| 22 | proletariat | 5 | 2 |
| 23 | lies | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | transition | 3 | 2 |
| 25 | marxists | 2 | 2 |
| 26 | appropriate | 4 | 2 |
| 27 | clock | 1 | 2 |
Results:
Term
Definitions: 7
Fragments: 8
Sound Alikes: 13
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 7
Words that Precede: 17
Statistically Associated: 27
Consonant Matches: 10
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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