pretenses
Definitions
Noun
- The act of giving a false appearance
- Pretending with intention to deceive
- Imaginative intellectual play
- A false or unsupportable quality
- An artful or simulated semblance
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "pretenses".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practices | 3 | 53 |
| 2 | apprentices | 4 | 3 |
| 3 | paralyzes | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | presences | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | appendixes | 4 | 1 |
| 6 | epitomizes | 5 | 1 |
| 7 | specializes | 4 | 1 |
| 8 | apologises | 5 | 0 |
| 9 | apologizes | 5 | 0 |
| 10 | paribas's | 4 | 0 |
| 11 | partridges | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | pasteurizes | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | patlex's | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | penalizes | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | penthouses | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | perplexes | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | porterages | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | practises | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | pressurizes | 4 | 0 |
| 20 | princess's | 3 | 0 |
| 21 | princesses | 3 | 0 |
| 22 | pronounces | 3 | 0 |
| 23 | province's | 3 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "pretenses".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | presses | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | pretend | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | pretense | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | pretended | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | pretends | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | pretender | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | remoteness | 3 | 2 |
| 8 | pretensions | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | pretenders | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | preteens | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | retests | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | refenes | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | preteen | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | preened | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | penises | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | protesters | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | prostheses | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | prophetess | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | pretension | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | petersen's | 3 | 0 |
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Words that are statistically associated with "pretenses" in the same piece of text.
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Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "pretenses".
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 5
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 23
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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