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Term: penalty

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

  1. Term
  2. penalty

penalty

Definitions

Noun

  1. The act of punishing
  2. A payment required for not fulfilling a contract
  3. The disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition
  4. (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "penalty".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 penalty 3 14

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "penalty".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 property 3 156
2 purity 3 12
3 specialty 3 4
4 probity 3 1
5 puberty 3 1
6 pallante 3 0
7 paoletti 4 0
8 parente 3 0
9 parenti 3 0
10 passante 3 0
11 pavarotti 4 0
12 pedretti 3 0
13 pedrotti 3 0
14 pizzuti 3 0
15 ponzetti 3 0
16 presutti 3 0
17 previti 3 0

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 plenty 2 55
2 personality 5 48
3 openly 3 34
4 specialty 3 4
5 penalties 3 4
6 mentality 4 3
7 realty 3 2
8 penal 2 1
9 pearly 2 1
10 fealty 3 1
11 pena 2 1
12 venality 4 0
13 pennwalt 2 0
14 penley 2 0
15 paltry 2 0
16 geniality 5 0
17 pent 1 0
18 pelt 1 0
19 peay 1 0
20 peat 1 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 penalty shootout 2 3
2 penalty mark 1 3
3 penalty area 3 2
4 penalty kick 1 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 a penalty 1 5
2 the penalty 1 5
3 or penalty 1 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 surveillance 3 2
2 performance 3 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Results:

Term

Definitions: 4

Fragments: 1

Sound Alikes: 17

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 4

Words that Precede: 3

Statistically Associated: 2

Consonant Matches: 0

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

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Since Death Penalty’s Return 50 Years Ago, Missouri Executes Prisoners at High Rate
Jul 29, 2026 The Marshall Project
Bryson DeChambeau Allegedly Warned He’d Call Trump If Penalty Decision Not Overturned
Jul 20, 2026 Forbes
Would the oil refinery penalty have generated $600M for California if implemented?
Jul 29, 2026 Lake County Record-Bee
Florida activists call to end death penalty after double execution
Jul 29, 2026 WMNF
McIlroy calls DeChambeau penalty at Open 'pretty obvious'
Jul 18, 2026 ESPN
Iran: End escalating campaign of arbitrary executions and death sentences against protesters
Jul 28, 2026 Amnesty International
Appeals court re­in­states factors for seeking the death penalty against Buffalo mass shooter
Jul 27, 2026 Spectrum News

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