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Term: precession

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

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  2. precession

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

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "precession".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 precession 3 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "precession".

# 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

Spelled Like

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

# 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

Words That Follow

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

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Words That Precede

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Statistically Associated

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

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Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 procession 3 5

Results:

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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Earth’s axis wobble recorded with unmatched precision
Sep 9, 2025 The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and transform
Determination of the spin-lifetime anisotropy in graphene using oblique spin precession
May 9, 2016 Nature
Scanning precession electron tomography for three-dimensional nanoscale orientation imaging and crystallographic analysis
Jun 1, 2015 Nature
ESO Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right
Apr 16, 2020 ESO.org
A more realistic Foucault pendulum
Mar 21, 2025 AIP.ORG
Precession-driven salinity feedback in the western Pacific warm pool: insights from alkenone hydrogen isotopes over the past 450 kyr
Jan 27, 2026 Nature
Why did Earth experience drastic climate swings without ice sheets? Scientists reveal slow orbital wobbles as the hidden driver
Jan 12, 2026 EurekAlert!

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