paying
Definitions
Verb
- Give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
- Convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- Cancel or discharge a debt
- Bring in
- Do or give something to somebody in return
- Dedicate
- Be worth it
- Render
- Bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
- Make a compensation for
- Discharge or settle
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "paying".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paying | 2 | 26 |
| 2 | taxpaying | 3 | 1 |
| 3 | non-paying | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | nonpaying | 3 | 0 |
| 5 | overpaying | 4 | 0 |
| 6 | prepaying | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | repaying | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | underpaying | 4 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "paying".
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "paying".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | saying | 2 | 113 |
| 2 | playing | 2 | 101 |
| 3 | laying | 2 | 12 |
| 4 | spraying | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | pacing | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | praying | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | spying | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | paving | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | prying | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | pawing | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | paging | 2 | 1 |
| 12 | haying | 2 | 1 |
| 13 | baying | 2 | 1 |
| 14 | repaying | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | partying | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | plying | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | payin' | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | pasing | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | paring | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | ayling | 2 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "paying" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paying the | 1 | 2 |
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "paying" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "paying" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | without | 2 | 2 |
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "paying".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pacing | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | piling | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | piping | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | poking | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | posing | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | paving | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | poling | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | paging | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | pawing | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | peking | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | poring | 2 | 1 |
| 12 | prying | 2 | 1 |
| 13 | paring | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | pasing | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | peeing | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | penang | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | phuong | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | pining | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | plying | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | pohang | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | pudong | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | puking | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | puming | 2 | 0 |
Results:
Term
Definitions: 11
Fragments: 8
Sound Alikes: 8
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 1
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 1
Consonant Matches: 23
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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