puritans
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Noun
- A member of a group of english protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the protestant reformation under elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
- Someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
- A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "puritans".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provisions | 3 | 39 |
| 2 | applications | 4 | 25 |
| 3 | perceptions | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | precautions | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | professions | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | pavilions | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | privations | 3 | 2 |
| 8 | partisans | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | partitions | 3 | 1 |
| 10 | pentagon's | 3 | 1 |
| 11 | perforations | 4 | 1 |
| 12 | persuasions | 3 | 1 |
| 13 | policeman's | 3 | 1 |
| 14 | pakistan's | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | pantaloons | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | patricians | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | pelagians | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | pentagons | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | peregrines | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | perelman's | 3 | 0 |
| 21 | pinkerton's | 3 | 0 |
| 22 | porcelains | 3 | 0 |
| 23 | positrons | 3 | 0 |
| 24 | princeton's | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | processions | 3 | 0 |
| 26 | profession's | 3 | 0 |
| 27 | promotions | 3 | 0 |
| 28 | springsteen's | 2 | 0 |
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Words that are spelled similarly to the term "puritans".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
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| 1 | persians | 2 | 12 |
| 2 | curtains | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | puritan | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | pertains | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | pursuits | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | puritanical | 5 | 1 |
| 7 | titans | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | puritanism | 5 | 0 |
| 9 | puritanisms | 5 | 0 |
| 10 | urias | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | urian | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | puris | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | prins | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | spartans | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | pagurian | 4 | 0 |
| 16 | britains | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | zurita | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | uranus | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | unitas | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | spurts | 1 | 0 |
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Words that contain the same consonants as the term "puritans".
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Term
Definitions: 3
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 28
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.
📰 This Word in the News:
John Boyne: What might Oscar Wilde have become, had hypocrisy and puritanism not laid him low?
Sep 24, 2026 Irish Independent
Sep 24, 2026 Irish Independent
Puritans, Neo-Puritans, and the Ongoing Legacies of Mainline Protestantism – By Mark Hulsether
May 21, 2016 The Marginalia Review of Books
May 21, 2016 The Marginalia Review of Books