famine
Definitions
Noun
- An acute insufficiency
- A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
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Words that contain the term "famine".
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "famine".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foreign | 2 | 158 |
| 2 | fashion | 2 | 69 |
| 3 | fallen | 2 | 34 |
| 4 | fission | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | fasten | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | figone | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | fagan | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | fatten | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | felon | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | finan | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | phelan | 2 | 1 |
| 12 | efferson | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | fadden | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | faden | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | fagen | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | faison | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | fallon | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | fannon | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | faron | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | farran | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | farren | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | farron | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | fason | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | faughnan | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | feagan | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | fearon | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | fegan | 2 | 0 |
| 28 | feigen | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | feighan | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | felan | 2 | 0 |
| 31 | ferman | 2 | 0 |
| 32 | ferran | 2 | 0 |
| 33 | ferren | 2 | 0 |
| 34 | ferron | 2 | 0 |
| 35 | ficken | 2 | 0 |
| 36 | finnan | 2 | 0 |
| 37 | firman | 2 | 0 |
| 38 | fitton | 2 | 0 |
| 39 | folan | 2 | 0 |
| 40 | fomon | 2 | 0 |
| 41 | foran | 2 | 0 |
| 42 | fossen | 2 | 0 |
| 43 | frewen | 2 | 0 |
| 44 | fullen | 2 | 0 |
| 45 | furlan | 2 | 0 |
| 46 | fuson | 2 | 0 |
| 47 | o'fallon | 3 | 0 |
| 48 | ofallon | 3 | 0 |
| 49 | offerman | 3 | 0 |
| 50 | offermann | 3 | 0 |
| 51 | phagan | 2 | 0 |
| 52 | phalen | 2 | 0 |
| 53 | pherson | 2 | 0 |
| 54 | philon | 2 | 0 |
| 55 | phippen | 2 | 0 |
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Words that are spelled similarly to the term "famine".
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "famine" in a sentence.
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Words that are statistically associated with "famine" in the same piece of text.
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 2
Fragments: 2
Sound Alikes: 55
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 3
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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