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Term: shops

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

  1. Term
  2. shops

shops

Definitions

Noun

  1. A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
  2. Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
  3. A course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)

Verb

  1. Do one's shopping
  2. Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
  3. Shop around; not necessarily buying
  4. Give away information about somebody
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "shops".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 shops 1 17
2 bishops 2 6
3 workshops 2 6
4 bishopsgate 3 2
5 bishops' 2 1
6 bookshops 2 0
7 pawnshops 2 0
8 photoshops 3 0
9 sweatshops 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "shops".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 ships 1 43
2 shapes 1 29
3 ship's 1 5
4 shop's 1 2
5 ships' 1 1
6 sheep's 1 0
7 sheeps 1 0
8 shipes 1 0
9 shipp's 1 0
10 shipps 1 0
11 shoppes 1 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 shows 1 94
2 shop 1 63
3 hopes 1 49
4 shoes 1 44
5 ships 1 43
6 shots 1 29
7 stops 1 8
8 bishops 2 6
9 shoup 1 4
10 soaps 1 3
11 hoops 1 3
12 shop's 1 2
13 sops 1 1
14 hops 1 1
15 shoppes 1 0
16 soups 1 0
17 shosh 1 0
18 shope 1 0
19 shoop 1 0
20 hopps 1 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 altoona shops 3 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 means 1 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 ships 1 43
2 ships' 1 1

Results:

Term

Definitions: 7

Fragments: 9

Sound Alikes: 11

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 1

Statistically Associated: 1

Consonant Matches: 2

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

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