pests
Definitions
Noun
- A serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- Any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- A persistently annoying person
- Any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "pests".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | points | 1 | 143 |
| 2 | parts | 1 | 113 |
| 3 | sports | 1 | 49 |
| 4 | poets | 2 | 32 |
| 5 | plates | 1 | 23 |
| 6 | posts | 1 | 22 |
| 7 | operates | 3 | 15 |
| 8 | pont's | 1 | 15 |
| 9 | poet's | 2 | 13 |
| 10 | paints | 1 | 10 |
| 11 | pants | 1 | 9 |
| 12 | pelts | 1 | 9 |
| 13 | plots | 1 | 8 |
| 14 | ports | 1 | 4 |
| 15 | upsets | 2 | 3 |
| 16 | splits | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | appoints | 2 | 1 |
| 18 | opiates | 3 | 1 |
| 19 | pastes | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | peltz | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | pleats | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | post's | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | pratt's | 1 | 1 |
| 24 | pact's | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | pacts | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | paltz | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | part's | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | parts' | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | pasts | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | payouts | 2 | 0 |
| 31 | pentz | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | peretz | 2 | 0 |
| 33 | picts | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | piltz | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | pints | 1 | 0 |
| 36 | plaits | 1 | 0 |
| 37 | platts | 1 | 0 |
| 38 | platz | 1 | 0 |
| 39 | plautz | 1 | 0 |
| 40 | pletz | 1 | 0 |
| 41 | ploetz | 1 | 0 |
| 42 | plotts | 1 | 0 |
| 43 | plotz | 1 | 0 |
| 44 | point's | 1 | 0 |
| 45 | ponts | 1 | 0 |
| 46 | port's | 1 | 0 |
| 47 | portz | 1 | 0 |
| 48 | prats | 1 | 0 |
| 49 | pritts | 1 | 0 |
| 50 | pritz | 1 | 0 |
| 51 | protz | 1 | 0 |
| 52 | pultz | 1 | 0 |
| 53 | punts | 1 | 0 |
| 54 | putes | 1 | 0 |
| 55 | spartz | 1 | 0 |
| 56 | speltz | 1 | 0 |
| 57 | sport's | 1 | 0 |
| 58 | sports' | 1 | 0 |
| 59 | sprouts | 1 | 0 |
| 60 | updates | 2 | 0 |
| 61 | uprights | 2 | 0 |
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 4
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 61
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 2
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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