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Term: began

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

  1. Term
  2. began

began

Definitions

Verb

  1. Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  2. Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
  3. Set in motion, cause to start
  4. Begin to speak or say; he began
  5. Be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
  6. Have a beginning, of a temporal event
  7. Have a beginning characterized in some specified way
  8. Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
  9. Achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
  10. Begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "began".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 began 2 312

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "began".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 beagan 2 0
2 beaudin 2 0
3 bhutan 2 0
4 boivin 2 0
5 bouman 2 0
6 boutin 2 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 belgian 2 14
2 bean 1 5
3 bregman 2 1
4 bergan 2 0
5 beagan 2 0
6 egan 2 0
7 bergman 2 0
8 begeman 2 0
9 vegan 2 0
10 regan 2 0
11 megan 2 0
12 legan 2 0
13 fegan 2 0
14 eagan 2 0
15 degan 2 0
16 brean 1 0
17 bogan 2 0
18 bigan 2 0
19 bevan 2 0
20 beran 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 began to 1 38
2 began in 1 9
3 began with 1 5
4 began his 1 4
5 began a 1 3
6 began on 1 3
7 began its 1 2
8 began at 1 2
9 began singing 2 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 he began 1 7
2 which began 1 3
3 that began 1 3
4 work began 1 2
5 ford began 1 2
6 and began 1 2
7 she began 1 2
8 sculptors began 2 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 anders 2 2
2 discrepancies 4 2
3 verrier 3 2
4 size 1 2
5 literature 4 2
6 art 1 2
7 americans 4 2
8 writers 2 2
9 tension 2 2
10 conversion 3 2
11 renaissance 3 2
12 administrators 5 2
13 area 3 2
14 x 1 2
15 web 1 2
16 states 1 2
17 thus 1 2
18 campaign 2 2
19 napoleon 4 2
20 writing 2 2
21 cuneiform 4 2
22 liverpool 3 2
23 migrants 2 2
24 oil 1 2
25 ideas 3 2
26 palais 2 2
27 marx 1 2
28 generally 4 2
29 processors 3 2
30 also 2 2
31 model 2 2
32 ford 1 2
33 company 3 2
34 first 1 2
35 egyptians 3 2
36 culture 2 2
37 nevada 3 2
38 tip 1 2
39 day 1 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 begin 2 84
2 begun 2 51
3 bagan 2 0
4 begin's 2 0
5 bigan 2 0
6 bogan 2 0
7 bogen 2 0
8 bogin 2 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 10

Fragments: 1

Sound Alikes: 6

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 9

Words that Precede: 8

Statistically Associated: 39

Consonant Matches: 8

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

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