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Term: precession

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precession

Definitions

Noun

  1. The motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone
  2. The act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

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Words that contain the term "precession".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 precession 3 0

Sounds Like

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# Word Syllables Freq
1 application 4 68
2 provision 3 47
3 precision 3 46
4 profession 3 37
5 perception 3 29
6 promotion 3 26
7 partisan 3 21
8 policeman 3 19
9 perfection 3 11
10 persuasion 3 9
11 precaution 3 8
12 princeton 2 7
13 probation 3 7
14 partition 3 6
15 procession 3 5
16 puritan 3 5
17 sportsman 2 5
18 pavilion 3 4
19 porcelain 3 2
20 pre-season 3 2
21 prettyman 3 2
22 apollonian 5 1
23 patrician 3 1
24 pemberton 3 1
25 perelman 3 1
26 plympton 2 1
27 apollinian 5 0
28 approbation 4 0
29 paddington 3 0
30 papazian 4 0
31 papillion 3 0
32 parkerson 3 0
33 parkison 3 0
34 pattinson 3 0
35 pavillion 3 0
36 pelagian 4 0
37 pengassan 3 0
38 pennington 3 0
39 pennsauken 3 0
40 perforation 4 0
41 perkinson 3 0
42 perzigian 4 0
43 petitjean 3 0
44 pezeshkan 3 0
45 pilkerton 3 0
46 pinkerman 3 0
47 pinkerton 3 0
48 pinkston 2 0
49 plankton 2 0
50 plimpton 2 0
51 predation 3 0
52 preseason 3 0
53 prillaman 3 0
54 privation 3 0
55 proration 3 0
56 protzman 2 0
57 prutzman 2 0
58 punsalan 3 0
59 spiegelman 3 0
60 spracklen 3 0
61 springston 2 0

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# Word Syllables Freq
1 precision 3 46
2 processing 3 38
3 profession 3 37
4 recession 3 7
5 regression 3 7
6 repression 3 6
7 procession 3 5
8 secession 3 2
9 processional 4 1
10 recessions 3 0
11 recession's 3 0
12 processions 3 0
13 recission 3 0
14 recessing 3 0
15 presson 2 0
16 retrocession 4 0
17 recessionary 5 0
18 rescission 3 0
19 pretension 3 0
20 preclusion 3 0

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Consonant Match

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# Word Syllables Freq
1 procession 3 5

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Term

Definitions: 2

Fragments: 1

Sound Alikes: 61

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 0

Consonant Matches: 1

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This Word in the News:

Lense–Thirring precessing magnetar engine drives a superluminous supernova
Mar 11, 2026 Nature
Astrophysicists figure out what caused a super-bright supernova
Mar 11, 2026 Reuters
Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation Induced by Precession: Sensitivity to Orbital Acceleration
Sep 25, 2025 AGU Publications
Spot the difference: eccentricity or precession
Jan 23, 2026 Astrobites
Artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk exhibiting Lense-Thirring precession
Mar 11, 2026 Reuters Connect
Gyroscope measurements of the precession and nutation of Earth’s axis
Sep 3, 2025 Science | AAAS
Detection of 27 Candidate Circumbinary Planets Through Apsidal Precession of Eclipsing Binaries Observed by TESS
Dec 16, 2025 astrobiology.com

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