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Term: shelling

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

  1. Term
  2. shelling

shelling

Definitions

Noun

  1. The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target

Verb

  1. Use explosives on
  2. Create by using explosives
  3. Fall out of the pod or husk
  4. Hit the pitches of hard and regularly
  5. Look for and collect shells by the seashore
  6. Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
  7. Remove from its shell or outer covering
  8. Remove the husks from
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "shelling".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 shelling 2 0
2 shellings 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "shelling".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 shooting 2 48
2 shouting 2 32
3 shopping 2 27
4 sharing 2 23
5 shaking 2 21
6 shining 2 21
7 shipping 2 19
8 assuring 3 10
9 shaping 2 8
10 shearing 2 7
11 shaving 2 6
12 shoving 2 6
13 shading 2 4
14 shocking 2 4
15 sheathing 2 2
16 shedding 2 2
17 shirking 2 2
18 shutting 2 2
19 schilling 2 1
20 sheeting 2 1
21 showering 3 1
22 shunning 2 1
23 schimming 2 0
24 shaging 2 0
25 shaming 2 0
26 shilling 2 0
27 shirting 2 0
28 shitting 2 0
29 shoring 2 0
30 shucking 2 0
31 shuping 2 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 selling 2 31
2 swelling 2 11
3 snelling 2 7
4 smelling 2 5
5 spelling 2 4
6 schelling 2 2
7 shellings 2 0
8 helling 2 0
9 stelling 2 0
10 shilling 2 0
11 shelving 2 0
12 sellings 2 0
13 helbling 3 0
14 sellin 2 0
15 heling 2 0
16 elling 2 0
17 shellacking 3 0
18 schellinger 3 0
19 spellings 2 0
20 snellings 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 and shelling 1 3

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 target 2 2
2 support 2 2
3 targets 2 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 shilling 2 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 9

Fragments: 2

Sound Alikes: 31

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 1

Statistically Associated: 3

Consonant Matches: 1

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

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