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Term: patent

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

  1. Term
  2. patent

patent

Definitions

Noun

  1. A document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
  2. An official document granting a right or privilege

Verb

  1. Obtain a patent for
  2. Grant rights to; grant a patent for
  3. Make open to sight or notice
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "patent".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 patent 2 35
2 patents 2 19
3 patented 3 3
4 patenting 3 1
5 patentable 4 0
6 patently 3 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "patent".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 patient 2 86
2 apparent 3 57
3 payment 2 53
4 percent 2 53
5 opponent 3 15
6 parent 2 15
7 pennant 2 9
8 potent 2 9
9 pageant 2 7
10 peasant 2 7
11 piquant 2 2
12 pliant 2 1
13 parrent 2 0
14 permount 2 0
15 pilant 2 0
16 poussaint 2 0
17 poussant 2 0
18 prowant 2 0
19 pylant 2 0
20 upfront 2 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 patient 2 86
2 patients 2 36
3 patient's 2 21
4 tent 1 20
5 patents 2 19
6 parent 2 15
7 potent 2 9
8 latent 2 9
9 patiently 3 9
10 patented 3 3
11 patenting 3 1
12 patuxent 3 0
13 patently 3 0
14 platen 2 0
15 patten 2 0
16 parten 2 0
17 pent 1 0
18 patt 1 0
19 patients' 2 0
20 paternity 4 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 patent company 3 7

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 the patent 1 6

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 remnants 2 2
2 offered 2 2
3 stay 1 2
4 blow 1 2
5 letters 2 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 potent 2 9

Results:

Term

Definitions: 5

Fragments: 6

Sound Alikes: 20

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 1

Words that Precede: 1

Statistically Associated: 5

Consonant Matches: 1

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

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