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Term: oil

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

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  2. oil

oil

Definitions

Noun

  1. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
  2. Oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist
  3. A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
  4. Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants

Verb

  1. Cover with oil, as if by rubbing
  2. Administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "oil".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 oil 1 95
2 soil 1 54
3 foil 1 20
4 oils 1 15
5 soils 1 15
6 toilet 2 13
7 boil 1 12
8 turmoil 2 12
9 boiled 1 10
10 oily 2 10
11 boiling 2 9
12 spoilage 2 8
13 soiled 1 7
14 coil 1 6
15 spoiled 1 6
16 recoil 2 5
17 oilseeds 2 4
18 toilets 2 4
19 oiled 1 3
20 roiling 2 3
21 spoil 1 3
22 boiler 2 2
23 boils 1 2
24 broil 1 2
25 broiled 1 2
26 broiler 2 2
27 coils 1 2
28 potboiler 3 2
29 boilers 2 1
30 coiled 1 1
31 coiling 2 1
32 embroiled 2 1
33 foiled 1 1
34 foiles 2 1
35 oilers 2 1
36 oilseed 2 1
37 potboilers 3 1
38 recoiled 2 1
39 spoiling 2 1
40 spoils 1 1
41 subsoil 2 1
42 toil 1 1
43 toiled 1 1
44 topsoil 2 1
45 airfoil 2 0
46 airfoils 2 0
47 boilard 2 0
48 boileau 2 0
49 boilermaker 4 0
50 boilerplate 3 0
51 boilerplates 3 0
52 britoil 2 0
53 broilers 2 0
54 broiling 2 0
55 coile 1 0
56 doilies 2 0
57 doily 2 0
58 embroil 2 0
59 foiling 2 0
60 foils 1 0
61 gatoil 2 0
62 guilfoil 2 0
63 hispanoil 3 0
64 hoiland 2 0
65 hoilman 2 0
66 hydrofoil 3 0
67 lukoil 2 0
68 moilanen 3 0
69 oil's 1 0
70 oiler 2 0
71 oilfield 2 0
72 oilfields 2 0
73 oiling 2 0
74 oilman 2 0
75 oilmen 2 0
76 oilwell 2 0
77 parboil 2 0
78 parboiling 3 0
79 pennzoil 2 0
80 pennzoil's 2 0
81 recoils 2 0
82 roil 1 0
83 roiled 1 0
84 soil's 1 0
85 soileau 2 0
86 spoiler 2 0
87 spoilers 2 0
88 statoil 2 0
89 toilet's 2 0
90 toiletries 3 0
91 toiletry 3 0
92 toiling 2 0
93 toils 1 0
94 uncoil 2 0
95 uncoiled 2 0
96 unspoiled 2 0
97 voila 2 0
98 voiles 1 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "oil".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 soil 1 54
2 foil 1 20
3 boil 1 12
4 coil 1 6
5 doyle 1 4
6 toil 1 1
7 boyle 1 0
8 coile 1 0
9 coyle 1 0
10 foyle 1 0
11 hoyle 1 0
12 moyl 1 0
13 moyle 1 0
14 roil 1 0
15 royle 1 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 soil 1 54
2 foil 1 20
3 oils 1 15
4 soils 1 15
5 boil 1 12
6 oily 2 10
7 coil 1 6
8 il 1 3
9 spoil 1 3
10 oiled 1 3
11 toil 1 1
12 roil 1 0
13 oi 1 0
14 voila 2 0
15 toils 1 0
16 sobil 2 0
17 oneil 2 0
18 oiler 2 0
19 oil's 1 0
20 mobil 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 oil and 1 5
2 oil fields 1 3
3 oil or 1 2
4 oil prices 2 2
5 oil wells 1 2
6 oil industry 3 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 of oil 1 2
2 international oil 5 2
3 the oil 1 2
4 neste oil 1 2
5 with oil 1 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 baby 2 2
2 fuel 2 2
3 rising 2 2
4 slumping 2 2
5 development 4 2
6 international 5 2
7 including 3 2
8 entire 3 2
9 baku 2 2
10 azerbaijan 4 2
11 iran 2 2
12 pumped 1 2
13 corn 1 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 all 1 3001
2 hal 1 28
3 ill 1 26
4 del 1 11
5 mel 1 8
6 all-out 2 6
7 gal 1 5
8 bel 1 4
9 all-time 2 3
10 sol 1 3
11 eel 1 2
12 fil 1 2
13 gel 1 2
14 owl 1 2
15 pal 1 2
16 all-purpose 3 1
17 all-star 2 1
18 bal 1 1
19 cal 1 1
20 ell 1 1
21 gil 1 1
22 hal's 1 1
23 lil 1 1
24 mal 1 1
25 nil 1 1
26 pal's 1 1
27 tel 1 1
28 wil 1 1
29 adl-tabataba 6 0
30 adl-tabatabai 6 0
31 ahl 1 0
32 ail 1 0
33 all's 1 0
34 aol 3 0
35 aul 1 0
36 bel'c 1 0
37 bil 1 0
38 bol 1 0
39 cel 1 0
40 cul 1 0
41 dal 1 0
42 del-campos 3 0
43 dol 1 0
44 erl 1 0
45 fel 1 0
46 gul 1 0
47 jil 1 0
48 kal 1 0
49 kol 1 0
50 kyl 1 0
51 lal 1 0
52 lol 1 0
53 mal's 1 0
54 mel's 1 0
55 mil 1 0
56 mol 1 0
57 mul's 1 0
58 nel 1 0
59 nfl 3 0
60 ohl 1 0
61 oil's 1 0
62 pil 1 0
63 pol 1 0
64 rol 1 0
65 sal 1 0
66 sal's 1 0
67 sel 1 0
68 sil 1 0
69 sul 1 0
70 tal 1 0
71 til 1 0
72 tol 1 0
73 uhl 1 0
74 u_l 2 0
75 val 1 0
76 wal 1 0
77 wal-mart 2 0
78 wil's 1 0
79 xml 3 0
80 yul 1 0
81 zel 1 0
82 zil 1 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 6

Fragments: 98

Sound Alikes: 15

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 6

Words that Precede: 5

Statistically Associated: 13

Consonant Matches: 82

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

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