famines
Definitions
Noun
- An acute insufficiency
- A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | families | 3 | 68 |
| 2 | mines | 1 | 28 |
| 3 | fairness | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | miners | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | famine | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | faintest | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | fines | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | examines | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | lamine's | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | raines | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | moines | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | minges | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | mines' | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | mine's | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | minces | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | milnes | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | maines | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | lamine | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | kamins | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | haines | 1 | 0 |
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Definitions: 2
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 17
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
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