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Term: black

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

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Definitions

Noun

  1. The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
  2. Total absence of light
  3. British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
  4. Popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
  5. A person with dark skin who comes from africa (or whose ancestors came from africa)
  6. (board games) the darker pieces
  7. Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

Adjective

  1. Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
  2. Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-saharan african origin; - martin luther king jr.

Verb

  1. Make or become black
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "black".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 black 1 203
2 blackman 2 15
3 black's 1 6
4 blackened 2 5
5 blackness 2 5
6 blackout 2 5
7 blackberry 3 3
8 blacked 1 3
9 blackmer 2 3
10 blacks 1 3
11 blackwell 2 3
12 blackboard 2 2
13 blackjack 2 2
14 blackmail 2 2
15 blacksmith 2 2
16 blackbirds 2 1
17 blackening 3 1
18 blackest 2 1
19 blackmailed 2 1
20 blackstone 2 1
21 blackard 2 0
22 blackball 2 0
23 blackberries 3 0
24 blackbird 2 0
25 blackboards 2 0
26 blackburn 2 0
27 blacken 2 0
28 blackens 2 0
29 blacker 2 0
30 blackerby 3 0
31 blacketer 3 0
32 blackett 2 0
33 blackfoot 2 0
34 blackford 2 0
35 blackham 2 0
36 blackhawk 2 0
37 blackhawk's 2 0
38 blackhawks 2 0
39 blackheath 2 0
40 blackhurst 2 0
41 blackie 2 0
42 blackledge 2 0
43 blackley 2 0
44 blacklist 2 0
45 blacklisted 3 0
46 blacklisting 3 0
47 blacklock 2 0
48 blackmailing 3 0
49 blackmon 2 0
50 blackmore 2 0
51 blackmun 2 0
52 blackmun's 2 0
53 blackouts 2 0
54 blackpool 2 0
55 blackrock 2 0
56 blacks' 1 0
57 blacksburg 2 0
58 blackshear 2 0
59 blacksher 2 0
60 blackshire 2 0
61 blackson 2 0
62 blackstock 2 0
63 blackston 2 0
64 blackstone's 2 0
65 blacktop 2 0
66 blackwelder 3 0
67 blackwood 2 0
68 niblack 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "black".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 braque 1 9
2 brakke 1 1
3 brac 1 0
4 brack 1 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 back 1 966
2 lack 1 110
3 slack 1 9
4 black's 1 6
5 blacks 1 3
6 blacked 1 3
7 blanck 1 0
8 niblack 2 0
9 blalock 2 0
10 blalack 2 0
11 blacks' 1 0
12 blackie 2 0
13 blacker 2 0
14 blacken 2 0
15 bidlack 2 0
16 berlack 2 0
17 plack 1 0
18 olack 2 0
19 oblak 2 0
20 lauck 1 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 black africans 3 9
2 black people 2 7
3 black propaganda 4 5
4 black and 1 4
5 black literature 4 4
6 black man 1 3
7 black community 4 3
8 black writers 2 3
9 black powder 2 3
10 black african 3 3
11 black nationalism 5 2
12 black writer 2 2
13 black artists 2 2
14 black life 1 2
15 black family 3 2
16 black sea 1 2
17 black week 1 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 the black 1 15
2 of black 1 10
3 and black 1 7
4 a black 1 6
5 as black 1 5
6 to black 1 3
7 for black 1 3
8 both black 1 2
9 by black 1 2
10 that black 1 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 opposition 4 2
2 cognizance 3 2
3 campaign 2 2
4 broadcast 2 2
5 propaganda 4 2
6 segregation 4 2
7 interest 3 2
8 denied 2 2
9 allow 2 2
10 believe 2 2
11 published 2 2
12 believing 3 2
13 souls 1 2
14 numerous 3 2
15 urban 2 2
16 everyday 3 2
17 collections 3 2
18 read 1 2
19 well 1 2
20 independence 4 2
21 vibrant 2 2
22 impression 3 2
23 sense 1 2
24 like 1 2
25 greatest 2 2
26 novel 2 2
27 crisis 2 2
28 female 2 2
29 poor 1 2
30 books 1 2
31 larger 2 2
32 rights 1 2
33 collection 3 2
34 included 3 2
35 promote 2 2
36 notable 3 2
37 showcases 3 2
38 inspired 3 2
39 history 3 2
40 struggle 2 2
41 experience 4 2
42 within 2 2
43 nothing 2 2
44 comment 2 2
45 thing 1 2
46 argue 2 2
47 portray 2 2
48 others 2 2
49 viewpoint 2 2
50 said 1 2
51 matter 2 2
52 attacked 2 2
53 origin 3 2
54 elemental 4 2
55 long 1 2
56 thus 1 2
57 caspian 3 2
58 connecting 3 2
59 mandated 3 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 block 1 66
2 black's 1 6
3 bleck 1 0
4 blick 1 0
5 block's 1 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 10

Fragments: 68

Sound Alikes: 4

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 17

Words that Precede: 10

Statistically Associated: 59

Consonant Matches: 5

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

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