washing
Definitions
Noun
- The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
Verb
- Clean with some chemical process
- Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- Move by or as if by water
- Be capable of being washed
- Admit to testing or proof
- Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- Form by erosion
- Make moist
- Wash or flow against
- To cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "washing".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | washington | 3 | 206 |
| 2 | washing | 2 | 44 |
| 3 | washington's | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | brainwashing | 3 | 1 |
| 5 | dishwashing | 3 | 0 |
| 6 | washingtonian | 5 | 0 |
| 7 | washingtonians | 5 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "washing".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | working | 2 | 151 |
| 2 | waiting | 2 | 110 |
| 3 | watching | 2 | 76 |
| 4 | willing | 2 | 69 |
| 5 | walking | 2 | 54 |
| 6 | wearing | 2 | 47 |
| 7 | swimming | 2 | 37 |
| 8 | wedding | 2 | 32 |
| 9 | winning | 2 | 31 |
| 10 | swinging | 2 | 16 |
| 11 | dwelling | 2 | 13 |
| 12 | sweeping | 2 | 13 |
| 13 | waving | 2 | 13 |
| 14 | swelling | 2 | 11 |
| 15 | waking | 2 | 11 |
| 16 | whirling | 2 | 10 |
| 17 | weeping | 2 | 8 |
| 18 | awaiting | 3 | 7 |
| 19 | switching | 2 | 7 |
| 20 | whipping | 2 | 7 |
| 21 | whining | 2 | 6 |
| 22 | wiping | 2 | 6 |
| 23 | twirling | 2 | 5 |
| 24 | wailing | 2 | 5 |
| 25 | weaving | 2 | 5 |
| 26 | wishing | 2 | 5 |
| 27 | worrying | 3 | 5 |
| 28 | quitting | 2 | 4 |
| 29 | sweating | 2 | 4 |
| 30 | swirling | 2 | 4 |
| 31 | wetting | 2 | 4 |
| 32 | wording | 2 | 4 |
| 33 | quoting | 2 | 3 |
| 34 | swearing | 2 | 3 |
| 35 | swooping | 2 | 3 |
| 36 | twitching | 2 | 2 |
| 37 | wagging | 2 | 2 |
| 38 | waning | 2 | 2 |
| 39 | weaning | 2 | 2 |
| 40 | wheeling | 2 | 2 |
| 41 | whiting | 2 | 2 |
| 42 | whooping | 2 | 2 |
| 43 | wiring | 2 | 2 |
| 44 | quaking | 2 | 1 |
| 45 | quelling | 2 | 1 |
| 46 | swiping | 2 | 1 |
| 47 | waging | 2 | 1 |
| 48 | warring | 2 | 1 |
| 49 | weighting | 2 | 1 |
| 50 | welling | 2 | 1 |
| 51 | whaling | 2 | 1 |
| 52 | wheezing | 2 | 1 |
| 53 | whizzing | 2 | 1 |
| 54 | whopping | 2 | 1 |
| 55 | winging | 2 | 1 |
| 56 | buening | 2 | 0 |
| 57 | quashing | 2 | 0 |
| 58 | quilling | 2 | 0 |
| 59 | quiring | 2 | 0 |
| 60 | quizzing | 2 | 0 |
| 61 | schwering | 2 | 0 |
| 62 | swapping | 2 | 0 |
| 63 | swatching | 2 | 0 |
| 64 | sweeting | 2 | 0 |
| 65 | swerling | 2 | 0 |
| 66 | swilling | 2 | 0 |
| 67 | swooning | 2 | 0 |
| 68 | tweaking | 2 | 0 |
| 69 | twining | 2 | 0 |
| 70 | wading | 2 | 0 |
| 71 | waiving | 2 | 0 |
| 72 | walling | 2 | 0 |
| 73 | wapping | 2 | 0 |
| 74 | wareing | 2 | 0 |
| 75 | waring | 2 | 0 |
| 76 | webbing | 2 | 0 |
| 77 | weeding | 2 | 0 |
| 78 | wehling | 2 | 0 |
| 79 | wenning | 2 | 0 |
| 80 | werking | 2 | 0 |
| 81 | werling | 2 | 0 |
| 82 | werning | 2 | 0 |
| 83 | whacking | 2 | 0 |
| 84 | whitting | 2 | 0 |
| 85 | widing | 2 | 0 |
| 86 | wieting | 2 | 0 |
| 87 | wiling | 2 | 0 |
| 88 | wining | 2 | 0 |
| 89 | wirsing | 2 | 0 |
| 90 | wissing | 2 | 0 |
| 91 | witching | 2 | 0 |
| 92 | witting | 2 | 0 |
| 93 | wooding | 2 | 0 |
| 94 | worthing | 2 | 0 |
| 95 | zwilling | 2 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "washing".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | washington | 3 | 206 |
| 2 | watching | 2 | 76 |
| 3 | flashing | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | wishing | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | wasting | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | slashing | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | dashing | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | lashing | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | gnashing | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | smashing | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | lashings | 2 | 1 |
| 12 | hashing | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | cashing | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | bashing | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | shing | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | wasinger | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | trashing | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | stashing | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | quashing | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | fasching | 2 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "washing" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "washing" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "washing" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "washing".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wishing | 2 | 5 |
Results:
Term
Definitions: 15
Fragments: 7
Sound Alikes: 95
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 1
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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