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Term: period

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

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period

Definitions

Noun

  1. An amount of time
  2. The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
  3. (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
  4. A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
  5. The end or completion of something
  6. The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; ; --hippocrates; --aristotle
  7. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Fragment 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".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 appointed 3 42
2 painted 2 40
3 operated 4 27
4 plotted 2 10
5 pleaded 2 7
6 placid 2 6
7 parted 2 5
8 sprouted 2 3
9 updated 3 3
10 plodded 2 2
11 plated 2 1
12 plaited 2 0
13 prasad 2 0

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.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 period of 1 20
2 period is 1 6
3 period in 1 3
4 period to 1 3
5 period and 1 2
6 period now 1 2
7 period comets 2 2

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

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 parked 1 33
2 parted 2 5
3 pursed 1 3
4 purged 1 2
5 pernod 2 1
6 parsed 1 0
7 period's 3 0
8 perked 1 0
9 pernod's 2 0
10 ported 2 0

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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