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Term: rue

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

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rue

Definitions

Noun

  1. European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
  2. Leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy
  3. Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
  4. (french) a street or road in france

Verb

  1. Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "rue".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 true 1 231
2 cruel 2 15
3 cruelty 2 13
4 congruence 3 11
5 construed 2 6
6 rue 1 6
7 cruelly 2 4
8 accrued 2 3
9 ruefully 3 3
10 gruesome 2 2
11 misconstrued 3 2
12 truer 2 2
13 truest 2 2
14 untrue 2 2
15 accrues 2 1
16 construe 2 1
17 cruelest 2 1
18 accrue 2 0
19 brue 1 0
20 bruecher 2 0
21 brueck 1 0
22 brueckner 2 0
23 bruegge 2 0
24 brueggeman 2 0
25 brueggemann 2 0
26 brueggen 2 0
27 bruegger 2 0
28 bruegger's 2 0
29 bruehl 1 0
30 bruella 3 0
31 bruemmer 2 0
32 bruen 1 0
33 bruening 2 0
34 bruer 2 0
35 cruea 3 0
36 cruelties 2 0
37 cruey 2 0
38 druella 3 0
39 frueh 1 0
40 fruehauf 2 0
41 fruehling 2 0
42 gruel 2 0
43 grueling 3 0
44 gruen 1 0
45 gruenberg 2 0
46 gruener 2 0
47 gruenewald 3 0
48 gruenhagen 3 0
49 gruenwald 2 0
50 gruet 2 0
51 gruetzmacher 3 0
52 hochbrueckner 3 0
53 krueger 2 0
54 kruer 2 0
55 larue 2 0
56 misconstrue 3 0
57 misconstrues 3 0
58 prue 1 0
59 pruer 2 0
60 pruess 1 0
61 prueter 2 0
62 pruett 1 0
63 pruette 2 0
64 rueb 1 0
65 ruebel 2 0
66 rueckert 2 0
67 rueda 3 0
68 ruediger 3 0
69 ruedlinger 3 0
70 ruedy 2 0
71 ruef 1 0
72 rueff 1 0
73 rueful 2 0
74 rueger 2 0
75 ruegg 1 0
76 ruegsegger 3 0
77 ruehl 1 0
78 ruehle 2 0
79 ruel 1 0
80 ruelas 2 0
81 ruella 3 0
82 ruelle 2 0
83 ruesch 1 0
84 ruess 1 0
85 ruest 1 0
86 rueter 2 0
87 rueth 1 0
88 ruether 2 0
89 ruetz 1 0
90 shugrue 2 0
91 spruell 1 0
92 struebing 2 0
93 sugrue 2 0
94 true-view 2 0
95 trueblood 2 0
96 truell 2 0
97 truelove 2 0
98 trueman 2 0
99 truesdale 2 0
100 truesdell 2 0
101 truett 1 0
102 truex 2 0
103 unrue 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "rue".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 through 1 971
2 true 1 231
3 drew 1 68
4 grew 1 64
5 threw 1 46
6 crew 1 36
7 thru 1 16
8 brew 1 4
9 brue 1 0
10 crewe 1 0
11 dru 1 0
12 frew 1 0
13 frueh 1 0
14 grewe 1 0
15 prew 1 0
16 pru 1 0
17 prue 1 0
18 prugh 1 0
19 rew 1 0
20 rhew 1 0
21 rhue 1 0
22 rioux 1 0
23 roux 1 0
24 ru 1 0
25 treu 1 0
26 trew 1 0
27 trieu 1 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 true 1 231
2 rule 1 73
3 rude 1 6
4 re 1 3
5 ruse 1 2
6 rube 1 1
7 ruwe 1 0
8 rupe 1 0
9 rune 1 0
10 ruhe 1 0
11 ruge 1 0
12 rufe 1 0
13 ruel 1 0
14 ruef 1 0
15 rueb 1 0
16 rhue 1 0
17 prue 1 0
18 brue 1 0
19 ru 1 0
20 unrue 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 living 2 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 run 1 212
2 red 1 197
3 ran 1 134
4 raw 1 43
5 roy 1 37
6 row 1 35
7 ray 1 19
8 rid 1 19
9 rob 1 19
10 rod 1 18
11 rep. 5 13
12 rug 1 13
13 rev 1 11
14 rag 1 10
15 rot 1 8
16 rpm 3 7
17 rat 1 6
18 rip 1 6
19 rub 1 6
20 rex 1 5
21 rig 1 5
22 rim 1 5
23 rio 2 4
24 ron 1 4
25 rye 1 4
26 raf 1 3
27 rum 1 3
28 rae 1 2
29 ram 1 2
30 rap 1 2
31 rey 1 2
32 ruh 1 2
33 rak 1 1
34 rat's 1 1
35 rib 1 1
36 rob's 1 1
37 roe 1 1
38 roi 1 1
39 roy's 1 1
40 run-down 2 1
41 rut 1 1
42 rab 1 0
43 rad 1 0
44 rah 1 0
45 rai 2 0
46 raj 1 0
47 rao 1 0
48 rao's 1 0
49 ras 1 0
50 rat-a-tat 3 0
51 rau 1 0
52 rax 1 0
53 ray's 1 0
54 raz 1 0
55 rea 1 0
56 rea's 1 0
57 rec 1 0
58 red-eye 2 0
59 red-eye's 2 0
60 red-eyes 2 0
61 red-handed 3 0
62 red-herring 3 0
63 red-herrings 3 0
64 ree 1 0
65 ref 1 0
66 reg 1 0
67 reh 1 0
68 rem 1 0
69 ren 1 0
70 reo 2 0
71 rep 1 0
72 rep's 1 0
73 res 1 0
74 ret 1 0
75 rew 1 0
76 rha 1 0
77 rho 1 0
78 ria 2 0
79 ric 1 0
80 rio's 2 0
81 rio-de-janeiro 6 0
82 rix 1 0
83 riz 1 0
84 roa 2 0
85 roc 1 0
86 rog 1 0
87 roh 1 0
88 roh's 1 0
89 rol 1 0
90 rom 1 0
91 rom's 1 0
92 ron's 1 0
93 ros 1 0
94 row's 1 0
95 rox 1 0
96 rox's 2 0
97 roz 1 0
98 rpf 3 0
99 rua 2 0
100 rud 1 0
101 ruf 1 0
102 run's 1 0
103 run-on 2 0
104 run-ons 2 0
105 rus 1 0
106 rux 1 0
107 rys 1 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 5

Fragments: 103

Sound Alikes: 27

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 1

Consonant Matches: 107

Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.

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