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Term: hedging

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

  1. Term
  2. hedging

hedging

Definitions

Noun

  1. Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
  2. An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

Verb

  1. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  2. Hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
  3. Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
  4. Minimize loss or risk
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "hedging".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 hedging 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "hedging".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 having 2 279
2 hearing 2 76
3 housing 2 59
4 heading 2 31
5 hoping 2 30
6 hanging 2 28
7 heating 2 24
8 hiding 2 17
9 hitting 2 17
10 hugging 2 7
11 hatching 2 6
12 healing 2 6
13 hiring 2 6
14 humming 2 6
15 hurling 2 5
16 hauling 2 4
17 heaving 2 4
18 hissing 2 4
19 hopping 2 4
20 hurrying 3 4
21 hitching 2 3
22 howling 2 3
23 hurting 2 3
24 hacking 2 2
25 hating 2 2
26 herring 2 2
27 hiking 2 2
28 hemming 2 1
29 herding 2 1
30 hobbing 2 1
31 hocking 2 1
32 hogging 2 1
33 homing 2 1
34 hooking 2 1
35 haering 3 0
36 hailing 2 0
37 halling 2 0
38 halving 2 0
39 haning 2 0
40 hanning 2 0
41 haring 2 0
42 harring 2 0
43 hashing 2 0
44 hassing 2 0
45 hawking 2 0
46 hazing 2 0
47 heaping 2 0
48 hedding 2 0
49 heeding 2 0
50 heeling 2 0
51 heling 2 0
52 helling 2 0
53 heming 2 0
54 henning 2 0
55 herling 2 0
56 herting 2 0
57 herzing 2 0
58 hessing 2 0
59 hewing 2 0
60 hibbing 2 0
61 hilling 2 0
62 hodding 2 0
63 holing 2 0
64 holling 2 0
65 honing 2 0
66 hosing 2 0
67 hoving 2 0
68 huffing 2 0
69 hyping 2 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 heading 2 31
2 hiding 2 17
3 edging 2 5
4 shedding 2 2
5 herding 2 1
6 headings 2 1
7 heeding 2 0
8 hedglin 2 0
9 hedding 2 0
10 hebding 2 0
11 hedin 2 0
12 edgin 2 0
13 pledging 2 0
14 heldring 2 0
15 hedinger 3 0
16 fledging 2 0
17 dredging 2 0
18 reding 2 0
19 hoeing 2 0
20 hodgin 2 0

Words That Follow

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

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Words That Precede

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

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Statistically Associated

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

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Consonant Match

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

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Results:

Term

Definitions: 6

Fragments: 1

Sound Alikes: 69

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 0

Consonant Matches: 0

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