basketball
Definitions
Noun
- A game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
- An inflated ball used in playing basketball
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "basketball".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | basketball | 3 | 9 |
| 2 | basketball's | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | basketballs | 3 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "basketball".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | baseball | 2 | 57 |
| 2 | stall | 1 | 18 |
| 3 | basket | 2 | 17 |
| 4 | baseball's | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | haskell | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | baskets | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | baseballs | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | basketballs | 3 | 0 |
| 9 | basketball's | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | fastball | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | fastballs | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | brakebill | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | blackball | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | maskell | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | gaskell | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | baswell | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | baskett | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | basgall | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | spitball | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | softball | 2 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "basketball" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | basketball team | 1 | 5 |
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "basketball" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | men's basketball | 1 | 8 |
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "basketball" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | men's | 1 | 10 |
| 2 | historic | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | facilities | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | professional | 4 | 2 |
| 5 | british | 2 | 2 |
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "basketball".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | basketball's | 3 | 0 |
Results:
Term
Definitions: 2
Fragments: 3
Sound Alikes: 1
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 1
Words that Precede: 1
Statistically Associated: 5
Consonant Matches: 1
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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