legitimating
Definitions
Verb
- Make legal
- Show or affirm to be just and legitimate
- Make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone)
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Words that contain the term "legitimating".
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Words that are spelled similarly to the term "legitimating".
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | letting | 2 | 31 |
| 2 | legitimate | 4 | 16 |
| 3 | litigation | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | negotiating | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | illegitimate | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | estimating | 4 | 2 |
| 7 | legitimately | 5 | 2 |
| 8 | mitigating | 4 | 2 |
| 9 | meditating | 4 | 2 |
| 10 | legitimacy | 5 | 2 |
| 11 | agitating | 4 | 1 |
| 12 | levitation | 4 | 1 |
| 13 | legitimizing | 5 | 0 |
| 14 | litigating | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | levitating | 4 | 0 |
| 16 | legislating | 4 | 0 |
| 17 | intimidating | 5 | 0 |
| 18 | leitman | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | relegating | 4 | 0 |
| 20 | legitimize | 4 | 0 |
| 21 | intimation | 4 | 0 |
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 3
Fragments: 0
Sound Alikes: 0
Spelled Like: 21
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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