cruelty
Definitions
Noun
- A cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering
- Feelings of extreme heartlessness
- The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "cruelty".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | committee | 3 | 168 |
| 2 | cavity | 3 | 12 |
| 3 | quixote | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | christi | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | christie | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | christy | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | crafty | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | acuity | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | cafferty | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | caputi | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | cassetty | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | cassity | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | clougherty | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | coletti | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | colletti | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | comity | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | commitee | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | conaty | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | corrente | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | correnti | 3 | 0 |
| 21 | corsetti | 3 | 0 |
| 22 | crusty | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | kristi | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | kristie | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | kristy | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | kuwaiti | 3 | 0 |
| 27 | quilty | 2 | 0 |
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Words that are spelled similarly to the term "cruelty".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reality | 4 | 79 |
| 2 | faculty | 3 | 74 |
| 3 | cruel | 2 | 15 |
| 4 | rely | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | cult | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | cruelly | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | credulity | 4 | 3 |
| 8 | crudely | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | rudely | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | realty | 3 | 2 |
| 11 | cruelest | 2 | 1 |
| 12 | cruey | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | crusty | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | crumly | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | creely | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | cruelties | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | ruel | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | celt | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | rumfelt | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | mcnulty | 3 | 0 |
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Words that often precede the term "cruelty" in a sentence.
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Words that are statistically associated with "cruelty" in the same piece of text.
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Words that contain the same consonants as the term "cruelty".
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 3
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 27
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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