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Term: tamales

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

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tamales

Definitions

Noun

  1. A city in northern ghana
  2. Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "tamales".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 tamales 3 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "tamales".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 twenties 2 10
2 treasuries 3 1
3 treasury's 3 1
4 otologies 4 0
5 stefani's 3 0
6 tehrani's 3 0
7 tehranis 3 0
8 tiffany's 3 0
9 torumi's 3 0
10 treasurys 3 0
11 twenty's 2 0
12 twinkies 2 0
13 tyrannies 3 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 tables 2 44
2 tales 1 21
3 males 1 19
4 thames 1 3
5 maples 2 3
6 teammates 2 2
7 tames 1 0
8 tamas 2 0
9 tramples 2 0
10 taxables 3 0
11 tamres 2 0
12 tamils 2 0
13 talese 2 0
14 stamas 2 0
15 male's 1 0
16 ambles 2 0
17 amazes 3 0
18 amalie 3 0
19 amalea 4 0
20 amal's 2 0

Words That Follow

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

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Words That Precede

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

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Statistically Associated

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

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Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 temples 2 4
2 tumbles 2 1

Results:

Term

Definitions: 2

Fragments: 1

Sound Alikes: 13

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 0

Consonant Matches: 2

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

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Jul 15, 2026 University of Colorado Boulder
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Dec 20, 2025 ABC7 Bay Area

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