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Term: try

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

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  2. try

try

Definitions

Noun

  1. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

Verb

  1. Make an effort or attempt
  2. Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
  3. Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
  4. Take a sample of
  5. Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
  6. Give pain or trouble to
  7. Test the limits of
  8. Melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
  9. Put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "try".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 country 2 324
2 industry 3 171
3 trying 2 163
4 try 1 140
5 poetry 3 88
6 entry 2 26
7 chemistry 3 16
8 infantry 3 16
9 country's 2 15
10 industry's 3 15
11 ministry 3 13
12 poultry 2 11
13 geometry 4 9
14 ancestry 3 8
15 countryside 3 7
16 registry 3 7
17 symmetry 3 7
18 countrymen 3 6
19 sentry 2 6
20 gantry 2 5
21 tapestry 3 5
22 carpentry 3 4
23 pastry 2 4
24 strychnine 2 4
25 artistry 3 3
26 gallantry 3 3
27 psychiatry 4 3
28 bigotry 3 2
29 countrywide 3 2
30 geochemistry 5 2
31 infantryman 4 2
32 pantry 2 2
33 wintry 2 2
34 asymmetry 4 1
35 circuitry 3 1
36 countryman 3 1
37 coventry 3 1
38 dentistry 3 1
39 forestry 3 1
40 gadgetry 3 1
41 gentry 2 1
42 idolatry 4 1
43 infantrymen 4 1
44 pageantry 3 1
45 punditry 3 1
46 sultry 2 1
47 summitry 3 1
48 altimetry 4 0
49 autry 2 0
50 banditry 3 0
51 basketry 3 0
52 biochemistry 5 0
53 botrytis 3 0
54 buttry 2 0
55 cabinetry 3 0
56 countryfolk 3 0
57 cross-country 3 0
58 daughtry 2 0
59 dissymmetry 4 0
60 entryway 3 0
61 helotry 3 0
62 holtry 2 0
63 industrywide 4 0
64 lantry 2 0
65 mckinstry 3 0
66 mcmurtry 3 0
67 ministry's 3 0
68 mistry 2 0
69 optometry 4 0
70 palmistry 3 0
71 paltry 2 0
72 patry 2 0
73 peasantry 3 0
74 pedantry 3 0
75 petry 2 0
76 pettry 2 0
77 pleasantry 3 0
78 puppetry 3 0
79 reentry 3 0
80 retry 2 0
81 retrying 3 0
82 rocketry 3 0
83 santry 2 0
84 spectrometry 4 0
85 strycharz 2 0
86 stryker 2 0
87 sweltry 2 0
88 telemetry 4 0
89 toiletry 3 0
90 try-on 2 0
91 try-ons 2 0
92 tryart 2 0
93 tryba 2 0
94 trybus 2 0
95 trygg 1 0
96 trygstad 2 0
97 trygve 2 0
98 tryin' 2 0
99 tryon 2 0
100 tryout 2 0
101 tryouts 2 0
102 tryphena 3 0
103 tryst 1 0
104 vitry 2 0
105 watry 2 0
106 zealotry 3 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "try".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 tri 1 0
2 trie 1 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 truly 2 57
2 tray 1 18
3 tory 2 13
4 troy 1 3
5 trays 1 3
6 trey 1 0
7 ty 1 0
8 watry 2 0
9 vitry 2 0
10 turvy 2 0
11 tryst 1 0
12 tryon 2 0
13 trygg 1 0
14 tryba 2 0
15 trudy 2 0
16 truby 2 0
17 troyu 2 0
18 trixy 2 0
19 tracy 2 0
20 towry 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 try to 1 6

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 to try 1 5

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 would 1 2
2 team 1 2
3 arrive 2 2
4 automatically 5 2
5 people 2 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 tri-state 2 12
2 tre 1 0
3 tri 1 0
4 try-on 2 0
5 try-ons 2 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 10

Fragments: 106

Sound Alikes: 2

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 1

Words that Precede: 1

Statistically Associated: 5

Consonant Matches: 5

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

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