steps
Definitions
Noun
- A flight of stairs or a flight of steps
- The course along which a person has walked or is walking in
- Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- The distance covered by a step
- The act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- Relative position in a graded series
- A short distance
- The sound of a step of someone walking
- A musical interval of two semitones
- A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- A solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- A sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
Verb
- Shift or move by taking a step
- Put down or press the foot, place the foot
- Cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- Treat badly
- Furnish with steps
- Move with one's feet in a specific manner
- Walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- Place (a ship's mast) in its step
- Measure (distances) by pacing
- Move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "steps".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steps | 1 | 119 |
| 2 | footsteps | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | stepson | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | sidesteps | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | doorsteps | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | missteps | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | stepsister | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | stepsisters | 3 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "steps".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slips | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | stops | 1 | 8 |
| 3 | slopes | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | escapes | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | steppes | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | swoops | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | scopes | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | skips | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | slaps | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | sleeps | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | snips | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | scoops | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | snaps | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | snipes | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | snoops | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | stipes | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | stoops | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | swapes | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | swaps | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | sweeps | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | swipes | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | swopes | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | synapse | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | syrups | 2 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "steps".
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "steps" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steps of | 1 | 3 |
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "steps" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the steps | 1 | 2 |
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "steps" in the same piece of text.
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "steps".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stops | 1 | 8 |
Results:
Term
Definitions: 23
Fragments: 8
Sound Alikes: 24
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 1
Words that Precede: 1
Statistically Associated: 6
Consonant Matches: 1
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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