infecting
Definitions
Verb
- Communicate a disease to
- Contaminate with a disease or microorganism
- Corrupt with ideas or an ideology
- Affect in a contagious way
Fragment
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "infecting".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | including | 3 | 171 |
| 2 | increasing | 3 | 74 |
| 3 | involving | 3 | 33 |
| 4 | improving | 3 | 16 |
| 5 | inspiring | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | insisting | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | disappearing | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | impinging | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | injecting | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | inquiring | 4 | 5 |
| 11 | installing | 3 | 5 |
| 12 | impending | 3 | 4 |
| 13 | informing | 3 | 4 |
| 14 | insulting | 3 | 4 |
| 15 | intriguing | 3 | 3 |
| 16 | impressing | 3 | 2 |
| 17 | imagining | 4 | 1 |
| 18 | imploring | 3 | 1 |
| 19 | inbreeding | 3 | 1 |
| 20 | indulging | 3 | 1 |
| 21 | intending | 3 | 1 |
| 22 | intruding | 3 | 1 |
| 23 | inventing | 3 | 1 |
| 24 | investing | 3 | 1 |
| 25 | impacting | 3 | 0 |
| 26 | imparting | 3 | 0 |
| 27 | imploding | 3 | 0 |
| 28 | importing | 3 | 0 |
| 29 | impounding | 3 | 0 |
| 30 | impugning | 3 | 0 |
| 31 | inflating | 3 | 0 |
| 32 | infusing | 3 | 0 |
| 33 | ingesting | 3 | 0 |
| 34 | initialing | 4 | 0 |
| 35 | initialling | 4 | 0 |
| 36 | innovating | 4 | 0 |
| 37 | instilling | 3 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "infecting".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | infection | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | injection | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | injecting | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | infections | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | inflections | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | inflicting | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | inflection | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | inspecting | 3 | 2 |
| 9 | influencing | 4 | 2 |
| 10 | inciting | 3 | 1 |
| 11 | interacting | 4 | 1 |
| 12 | infect | 2 | 1 |
| 13 | investing | 3 | 1 |
| 14 | inventing | 3 | 1 |
| 15 | inserting | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | ingesting | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | inflating | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | inferring | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | infective | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | indicting | 3 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "infecting" in a sentence.
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Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "infecting" in a sentence.
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Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "infecting" in the same piece of text.
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Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "infecting".
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 4
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 37
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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