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Term: bones

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

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bones

Definitions

Noun

  1. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
  2. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
  3. The porous calcified substance from which bones are made
  4. A shade of white the color of bleached bones

Verb

  1. Study intensively, as before an exam
  2. Remove the bones from
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "bones".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 bones 1 20
2 cheekbones 2 5
3 backbones 2 0
4 bonesteel 2 0
5 crossbones 2 0
6 hipbones 2 0
7 trombones 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "bones".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 burns 1 23
2 beans 1 9
3 buns 1 8
4 bonn's 1 3
5 bins 1 2
6 byrnes 1 2
7 baines 1 1
8 bans 1 1
9 ben's 1 1
10 burnes 1 1
11 bain's 1 0
12 bains 1 0
13 ban's 1 0
14 banes 1 0
15 baynes 1 0
16 bean's 1 0
17 beens 1 0
18 bens 1 0
19 benz 1 0
20 berns 1 0
21 bines 1 0
22 binns 1 0
23 binz 1 0
24 bonnes 1 0
25 boons 1 0
26 burns' 1 0
27 bynes 1 0
28 byrne's 1 0
29 urban's 2 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 ones 1 116
2 one's 1 65
3 bone 1 33
4 tones 1 20
5 zones 1 3
6 blondes 1 1
7 bonnes 1 0
8 bons 1 0
9 boes 1 0
10 bygones 2 0
11 bronzes 2 0
12 briones 3 0
13 bounces 2 0
14 bonuses 3 0
15 bonkers 2 0
16 bongers 2 0
17 sones 1 0
18 ones' 1 0
19 mones 1 0
20 lones 1 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 bones were 1 3

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 the bones 1 4

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 animal 3 2
2 pyrite 2 2
3 however 3 2
4 shoulder 2 2
5 yielded 2 2
6 survived 2 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 bonds 1 47
2 banks 1 37
3 bunks 1 17
4 bands 1 11
5 bangs 1 6
6 bends 1 2
7 binds 1 2
8 bonus 2 2
9 banks's 2 1
10 banas 2 0
11 banes 1 0
12 banis 2 0
13 banks' 1 0
14 banos 2 0
15 benes 2 0
16 bines 1 0
17 binns 1 0
18 bonds' 1 0
19 bunds 1 0
20 bynes 1 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 6

Fragments: 7

Sound Alikes: 29

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 1

Words that Precede: 1

Statistically Associated: 6

Consonant Matches: 20

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

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