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Term: rifling

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

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rifling

Definitions

Noun

  1. The cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm

Verb

  1. Steal goods; take as spoils
  2. Go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "rifling".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 trifling 2 2
2 rifling 2 1

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "rifling".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 drinking 2 48
2 ranging 2 30
3 creating 3 29
4 resting 2 19
5 printing 2 18
6 referring 3 18
7 drifting 2 11
8 arguing 3 10
9 rustling 2 10
10 granting 2 8
11 grinding 2 8
12 thrusting 2 8
13 rattling 2 7
14 drafting 2 6
15 recurring 3 6
16 ranking 2 5
17 relying 3 5
18 renting 2 5
19 rinsing 2 5
20 rounding 2 5
21 grappling 2 4
22 trusting 2 4
23 cringing 2 3
24 erecting 3 3
25 fronting 2 3
26 orbiting 3 3
27 prancing 2 3
28 shrinking 2 3
29 grasping 2 2
30 grounding 2 2
31 grunting 2 2
32 rallying 3 2
33 trickling 2 2
34 trifling 2 2
35 branching 2 1
36 crackling 2 1
37 erupting 3 1
38 frosting 2 1
39 kroening 3 1
40 preferring 3 1
41 readying 3 1
42 relaying 3 1
43 renewing 3 1
44 rioting 3 1
45 risking 2 1
46 romping 2 1
47 ruining 3 1
48 rusting 2 1
49 traipsing 2 1
50 wrenching 2 1
51 wrestling 2 1
52 branding 2 0
53 breasting 2 0
54 brokering 3 0
55 crafting 2 0
56 cramping 2 0
57 cranking 2 0
58 cresting 2 0
59 crimping 2 0
60 crocheting 3 0
61 crunching 2 0
62 drenching 2 0
63 franking 2 0
64 frittering 3 0
65 grafting 2 0
66 gramling 2 0
67 groening 3 0
68 grueling 3 0
69 ordaining 3 0
70 orphaning 3 0
71 prattling 2 0
72 prepaying 3 0
73 pressuring 3 0
74 proffering 3 0
75 rafting 2 0
76 ramping 2 0
77 ranching 2 0
78 ranting 2 0
79 redoing 3 0
80 refering 3 0
81 reinking 2 0
82 rending 2 0
83 rensing 2 0
84 repaying 3 0
85 ridling 2 0
86 riesling 2 0
87 ringling 2 0
88 roasting 2 0
89 roebling 2 0
90 rohlfing 2 0
91 thristing 2 0
92 tramping 2 0
93 trending 2 0
94 triggering 3 0
95 trouncing 2 0
96 wresting 2 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 trailing 2 7
2 roiling 2 3
3 railing 2 3
4 rippling 3 3
5 trifling 2 2
6 fling 1 2
7 stifling 2 2
8 rilling 2 0
9 riffing 2 0
10 ridling 2 0
11 reiling 2 0
12 tripling 3 0
13 trilling 2 0
14 serfling 2 0
15 ruffling 3 0
16 rivaling 3 0
17 ringling 2 0
18 riesling 2 0
19 railings 2 0
20 kreiling 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 rifling grooves 1 4

Words That Precede

Words that often precede the term "rifling" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 the rifling 1 8
2 of rifling 1 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Results:

Term

Definitions: 3

Fragments: 2

Sound Alikes: 96

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 1

Words that Precede: 2

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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This Word in the News:

Patron sought for new way of rifling a skills game machine at Train Station
Jun 3, 2025 Indiana Gazette Online
Patron sought for new way of rifling a skills game machine at Train Station
Jun 3, 2025 WV News
Elephant with a taste for crime rifles the shelves of a grocery shop
Jun 4, 2025 wtsp.com
Edinburgh CCTV shows man 'rifling through and damaging cars during break-in'
Jun 3, 2025 Yahoo News UK
Rifling Through the Archives With Legendary Historian Robert Caro
Feb 11, 2025 Smithsonian Magazine
Barrel rifling node offset detection and subsequent optimization based on thin film in-mold decoration characteristics of the Johnson–Cook model
Oct 18, 2024 Nature
Two-Barrel Electrochemical Machining for Firearms
Nov 27, 2024 American Machinist

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