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Term: years

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

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years

Definitions

Noun

  1. A late time of life
  2. A prolonged period of time
  3. The time during which someone's life continues
  4. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
  5. A period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
  6. The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., earth or mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
  7. A body of students who graduate together
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "years".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 years 1 950
2 years' 1 8
3 light-years 2 0
4 new-years 2 0
5 thousand-years-long 4 0
6 years-old 2 0
7 yearsley 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "years".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 year's 1 43
2 yours 1 25
3 years' 1 8
4 cures 1 3
5 yoor's 1 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 year 1 658
2 yards 1 64
3 year's 1 43
4 ears 1 38
5 tears 1 34
6 years' 1 8
7 yarns 1 6
8 wears 1 6
9 yeast 1 3
10 sears 1 2
11 pears 1 2
12 yeats 1 1
13 yearn 1 1
14 yearns 1 0
15 yeas 1 0
16 yeary 2 0
17 yaros 2 0
18 wyers 2 0
19 syers 2 0
20 rears 1 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 years of 1 24
2 years later 2 14
3 years earlier 3 12
4 years before 2 11
5 years after 2 8
6 years ago 2 7
7 years in 1 6
8 years as 1 5
9 years the 1 5
10 years war 1 4
11 years to 1 4
12 years old 1 4
13 years has 1 3
14 years on 1 3
15 years and 1 3
16 years for 1 3
17 years from 1 3
18 years was 1 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 two years 1 17
2 recent years 2 16
3 three years 1 11
4 five years 1 10
5 ten years 1 9
6 few years 1 7
7 the years 1 7
8 several years 3 7
9 thousand years 2 6
10 later years 2 5
11 of years 1 5
12 seven years 2 5
13 early years 2 4
14 million years 2 4
15 for years 1 4
16 four years 1 4
17 many years 2 3
18 six years 1 3
19 hundred years 2 3
20 after years 2 2
21 consecutive years 4 2
22 final years 2 2
23 nine years 1 2
24 twenty years 2 2
25 some years 1 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 ten 1 6
2 million 2 4
3 thousand 2 4
4 five 1 4
5 thirty 2 2
6 first 1 2
7 recent 2 2
8 subsequent 3 2
9 three 1 2
10 early 2 2
11 coming 2 2
12 literature 4 2
13 later 2 2
14 two 1 2
15 past 1 2
16 final 2 2
17 seven 2 2
18 six 1 2
19 schooling 2 2
20 several 3 2
21 died 1 2
22 many 2 2
23 nine 1 2
24 twenty 2 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 hours 2 174
2 fears 1 47
3 doors 1 36
4 tears 1 34
5 stars 1 29
6 bears 1 26
7 yours 1 25
8 pairs 1 14
9 hairs 1 12
10 scars 1 10
11 tours 1 10
12 odors 2 8
13 peers 1 8
14 years' 1 8
15 hears 1 7
16 piers 1 6
17 users 2 6
18 wears 1 6
19 myers 2 3
20 spurs 1 3
21 stirs 1 3
22 tiers 1 3
23 gears 1 2
24 heirs 1 2
25 moors 1 2
26 pears 1 2
27 pours 1 2
28 sears 1 2
29 beers 1 1
30 boors 1 1
31 doers 2 1
32 fairs 1 1
33 fours 1 1
34 hours' 1 1
35 jeers 1 1
36 liars 2 1
37 mears 1 1
38 roars 1 1
39 seers 1 1
40 sours 2 1
41 veers 1 1
42 agers 2 0
43 agers' 2 0
44 akers 2 0
45 akers's 3 0
46 avers 2 0
47 ayars 2 0
48 ayers 2 0
49 baars 1 0
50 barrs 1 0
51 bears' 1 0
52 beers' 1 0
53 beers's 2 0
54 biers 1 0
55 blurs 1 0
56 boers 1 0
57 byars 2 0
58 byers 2 0
59 byers' 2 0
60 cohrs 1 0
61 coors 1 0
62 coors's 2 0
63 czars 1 0
64 diers 2 0
65 ebers 2 0
66 evers 2 0
67 evers' 2 0
68 ewers 2 0
69 fiers 1 0
70 geers 2 0
71 goers 2 0
72 hiers 1 0
73 hyers 2 0
74 ivers 2 0
75 joers 2 0
76 kahrs 1 0
77 kohrs 1 0
78 koors 1 0
79 luers 2 0
80 luhrs 1 0
81 mairs 1 0
82 marrs 1 0
83 meers 2 0
84 miers 2 0
85 moers 2 0
86 mssrs 2 0
87 mssrs. 2 0
88 myers's 3 0
89 nears 1 0
90 noirs 1 0
91 nyers 1 0
92 overs 2 0
93 poors 1 0
94 purrs 1 0
95 rears 1 0
96 rohrs 1 0
97 sears' 1 0
98 sears's 2 0
99 siers 1 0
100 slurs 1 0
101 soars 1 0
102 stars' 1 0
103 syers 2 0
104 users' 2 0
105 viars 2 0
106 viers 1 0
107 weers 2 0
108 wiers 1 0
109 wyers 2 0
110 years-old 2 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 7

Fragments: 7

Sound Alikes: 5

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 18

Words that Precede: 25

Statistically Associated: 24

Consonant Matches: 110

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

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