professed
Definitions
Verb
- Practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
- Confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
- Admit (to a wrongdoing)
- State freely
- Receive into a religious order or congregation
- Take vows, as in religious order
- State insincerely
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As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "professed".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | professed | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | self-professed | 3 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "professed".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produced | 2 | 90 |
| 2 | promised | 2 | 45 |
| 3 | protest | 2 | 23 |
| 4 | pianist | 3 | 14 |
| 5 | processed | 2 | 12 |
| 6 | purest | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | prefaced | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | provost | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | prevost | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | proudest | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | optimist | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | pancoast | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | penwest | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | pinkest | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | podcast | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | potthurst | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | precast | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | premised | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | purist | 2 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "professed".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expressed | 2 | 75 |
| 2 | professor | 3 | 57 |
| 3 | processes | 3 | 57 |
| 4 | impressed | 2 | 30 |
| 5 | pressed | 1 | 29 |
| 6 | possessed | 2 | 22 |
| 7 | progressed | 2 | 13 |
| 8 | protested | 3 | 13 |
| 9 | processed | 2 | 12 |
| 10 | profess | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | oppressed | 2 | 5 |
| 12 | repressed | 2 | 3 |
| 13 | proffered | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | professes | 3 | 1 |
| 15 | unprocessed | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | reprocessed | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | presse | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | fessed | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | self-professed | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | pressured | 2 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "professed" in a sentence.
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Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "professed" in a sentence.
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Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "professed" in the same piece of text.
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Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "professed".
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 7
Fragments: 2
Sound Alikes: 19
Spelled Like: 20
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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