profess
Definitions
Verb
- Practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
- Confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
- Admit (to a wrongdoing)
- State freely
- Receive into a religious order or congregation
- Take vows, as in religious order
- State insincerely
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "profess".
# | Word | Syllables | Freq |
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1 | professional | 4 | 105 |
2 | professor | 3 | 57 |
3 | profession | 3 | 37 |
4 | professors | 3 | 16 |
5 | professionals | 4 | 10 |
6 | profess | 2 | 5 |
7 | professed | 2 | 5 |
8 | professionally | 5 | 5 |
9 | professions | 3 | 5 |
10 | professing | 3 | 2 |
11 | professionalism | 6 | 2 |
12 | non-professional | 5 | 1 |
13 | professes | 3 | 1 |
14 | professor's | 3 | 1 |
15 | professorship | 4 | 1 |
16 | unprofessional | 5 | 1 |
17 | non-professionals | 5 | 0 |
18 | nonprofessional | 5 | 0 |
19 | nonprofessionals | 5 | 0 |
20 | profession's | 3 | 0 |
21 | professionalize | 5 | 0 |
22 | professionalized | 5 | 0 |
23 | professionals' | 4 | 0 |
24 | professorial | 5 | 0 |
25 | professors' | 3 | 0 |
26 | professorships | 4 | 0 |
27 | self-professed | 3 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "profess".
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Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "profess".
# | Word | Syllables | Freq |
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1 | process | 2 | 196 |
2 | press | 1 | 127 |
3 | progress | 2 | 120 |
4 | professor | 3 | 57 |
5 | profession | 3 | 37 |
6 | professors | 3 | 16 |
7 | proves | 1 | 16 |
8 | protests | 2 | 11 |
9 | professed | 2 | 5 |
10 | professions | 3 | 5 |
11 | profiles | 2 | 3 |
12 | prowess | 2 | 2 |
13 | professing | 3 | 2 |
14 | professes | 3 | 1 |
15 | professor's | 3 | 1 |
16 | pross | 1 | 0 |
17 | profs | 1 | 0 |
18 | professors' | 3 | 0 |
19 | rolfes | 1 | 0 |
20 | pruess | 1 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "profess" in a sentence.
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Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "profess" in a sentence.
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Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "profess" in the same piece of text.
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Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "profess".
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 7
Fragments: 27
Sound Alikes: 0
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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