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Term: cancer

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

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  2. cancer

cancer

Definitions

Noun

  1. Any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream
  2. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in cancer
  3. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between leo and gemini
  4. The fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about june 21 to july 22
  5. Type genus of the family cancridae
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "cancer".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 cancer 2 25
2 cancers 2 1
3 anticancer 4 0
4 cancer's 2 0
5 cancerous 3 0
6 cancerphobia 5 0
7 precancerous 4 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "cancer".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 closer 2 61
2 closser 2 0
3 clouser 2 0
4 coarser 2 0
5 conser 2 0
6 corser 2 0
7 courser 2 0
8 crosser 2 0
9 crouser 2 0
10 katzer 2 0
11 kincer 2 0
12 kinser 2 0
13 klauser 2 0
14 krauser 2 0
15 kreiser 2 0
16 kresa 2 0
17 kresser 2 0
18 kreuser 2 0
19 scarcer 2 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 chance 1 131
2 dancer 2 31
3 cane 1 12
4 cancel 2 7
5 chancery 3 2
6 cancers 2 1
7 canter 2 1
8 canker 2 1
9 cancer's 2 0
10 pancer 2 0
11 lancer 2 0
12 craner 2 0
13 crance 1 0
14 casner 2 0
15 carner 2 0
16 canner 2 0
17 cancro 2 0
18 canace 3 0
19 carnicero 4 0
20 cancerous 3 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 cancer is 1 12
2 cancer in 1 9
3 cancer was 1 4
4 cancer include 2 3
5 cancer institute 3 3
6 cancer are 1 2
7 cancer may 1 2
8 cancer staging 2 2
9 cancer has 1 2
10 cancer deaths 1 2
11 cancer after 2 2
12 cancer patients 2 2
13 cancer incidence 3 2
14 cancer and 1 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 lung cancer 1 70
2 the cancer 1 6
3 of cancer 1 5
4 stomach cancer 2 5
5 national cancer 3 3
6 breast cancer 1 2
7 in cancer 1 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 national 3 6
2 lung 1 2
3 center 2 2
4 slowly 2 2
5 breast 1 2
6 spread 1 2
7 surface 2 2
8 bleeding 2 2
9 eventually 5 2
10 cause 1 2
11 ib 1 2
12 whose 1 2
13 common 2 2
14 form 1 2
15 improvements 3 2
16 children 2 2
17 skin 1 2
18 stomach 2 2
19 died 1 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 concur 2 4
2 cancer's 2 0
3 cencor 2 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 5

Fragments: 7

Sound Alikes: 19

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 14

Words that Precede: 7

Statistically Associated: 19

Consonant Matches: 3

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

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