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Term: hardly

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

  1. Term
  2. hardly

hardly

Definitions

Adverb

  1. Only a very short time before; ; ; ; ; - w.b.yeats
  2. Almost not
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "hardly".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 hardly 2 106

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "hardly".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 heavily 3 60
2 happily 3 20
3 handley 2 16
4 hawksley 2 10
5 huxley 2 6
6 harshly 2 5
7 huntley 2 5
8 humbly 2 4
9 horsely 2 2
10 hurriedly 3 2
11 hartley 2 1
12 haughtily 3 1
13 hinckley 2 1
14 hambley 2 0
15 hambly 2 0
16 handly 2 0
17 hansley 2 0
18 harpley 2 0
19 haseley 3 0
20 haverly 3 0
21 heatherly 3 0
22 helsley 2 0
23 hemmerle 3 0
24 hemsley 2 0
25 hendley 2 0
26 hennelly 3 0
27 hensley 2 0
28 heverly 3 0
29 hindley 2 0
30 hinkley 2 0
31 hinsley 2 0
32 homesley 2 0
33 homily 3 0
34 horsley 2 0
35 hugely 2 0
36 hundley 2 0
37 hunsley 2 0
38 huntly 2 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 hard 1 202
2 hardy 2 42
3 sharply 2 38
4 harshly 2 5
5 thirdly 2 1
6 hartley 2 1
7 harley 2 0
8 hardey 2 0
9 handly 2 0
10 hadley 2 0
11 ardley 2 0
12 heartedly 3 0
13 harl 1 0
14 yardley 2 0
15 wardley 2 0
16 shadley 2 0
17 hoadley 2 0
18 headley 2 0
19 haverly 3 0
20 harpley 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 can hardly 1 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 radiates 3 2
2 mass 1 2
3 one 1 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 hurdle 2 3

Results:

Term

Definitions: 2

Fragments: 1

Sound Alikes: 38

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 1

Statistically Associated: 3

Consonant Matches: 1

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

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‘I Could Hardly Believe I Was About to Run the New York City Marathon’
Nov 2, 2025 The New York Times
Conservatism Isn’t Dead, and ‘Trumpism’ Hardly Exists
Jan 21, 2026 American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Damariscotta, I Hardly Knew Ya
Jul 16, 2026 The Lincoln County News
Robert Plant to play San Francisco during Hardly Strictly weekend
Jun 9, 2026 San Francisco Chronicle
John Travolta ends a heist trilogy hardly anyone noticed in The Gentleman Thief
Jul 14, 2026 IMDb
Our Hero, Balthazar director Oscar Boyson: “We don’t talk about class enough in the United States. Hardly at all, really. It makes people uncomfortable
Jul 17, 2026 Hotpress
Editor’s notebook: Plagues of ancient Egypt hardly top woes of present-day Memphis
Apr 22, 2026 Tennessee Lookout

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