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Term: penalty

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

  1. Term
  2. penalty

penalty

Definitions

Noun

  1. The act of punishing
  2. A payment required for not fulfilling a contract
  3. The disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition
  4. (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "penalty".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 penalty 3 14

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "penalty".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 property 3 156
2 purity 3 12
3 specialty 3 4
4 probity 3 1
5 puberty 3 1
6 pallante 3 0
7 paoletti 4 0
8 parente 3 0
9 parenti 3 0
10 passante 3 0
11 pavarotti 4 0
12 pedretti 3 0
13 pedrotti 3 0
14 pizzuti 3 0
15 ponzetti 3 0
16 presutti 3 0
17 previti 3 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 plenty 2 55
2 personality 5 48
3 openly 3 34
4 specialty 3 4
5 penalties 3 4
6 mentality 4 3
7 realty 3 2
8 penal 2 1
9 pearly 2 1
10 fealty 3 1
11 pena 2 1
12 venality 4 0
13 pennwalt 2 0
14 penley 2 0
15 paltry 2 0
16 geniality 5 0
17 pent 1 0
18 pelt 1 0
19 peay 1 0
20 peat 1 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 penalty shootout 2 3
2 penalty mark 1 3
3 penalty area 3 2
4 penalty kick 1 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 a penalty 1 5
2 the penalty 1 5
3 or penalty 1 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 surveillance 3 2
2 performance 3 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Results:

Term

Definitions: 4

Fragments: 1

Sound Alikes: 17

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 4

Words that Precede: 3

Statistically Associated: 2

Consonant Matches: 0

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

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📰 This Word in the News:

Macquarie Bank to pay $14m penalty after confusing ‘welcome rate’ promotion
Nov 11, 2026 The Guardian
Newsom rightly opposes the will of Californians with death penalty commutations
Nov 11, 2026 Orange County Register
Death penalty support at lowest point in 50 years, new Gallup poll finds
Nov 11, 2026 The Washington Post
Mother accused of killing two children returns to court as death penalty decision looms
Nov 12, 2026 Yahoo
Alberta board upholds penalty after builder works through stop order
Nov 11, 2026 Canadian Occupational Safety
Miami (OH) gets unsportsmanlike penalty for depiction on jumbotron
Nov 11, 2026 ESPN
Mother accused of killing two children returns to court as death penalty decision looms
Nov 12, 2026 kens5.com

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