sour
Definitions
Noun
- A cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- The property of being acidic
Adjective
- Having a sharp biting taste
Verb
- Go sour or spoil
- Make sour or more sour
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "sour".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | source | 1 | 94 |
| 2 | sources | 2 | 88 |
| 3 | resources | 3 | 72 |
| 4 | missouri | 3 | 21 |
| 5 | resource | 2 | 9 |
| 6 | missouri's | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | resourceful | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | sour | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | resourcefulness | 4 | 2 |
| 10 | sours | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | agresource | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | ensource | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | healthsource | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | mansour | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | missourian | 4 | 0 |
| 16 | missourians | 4 | 0 |
| 17 | monsour | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | open-source | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | outsource | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | outsourced | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | outsources | 3 | 0 |
| 22 | outsourcing | 3 | 0 |
| 23 | resources' | 3 | 0 |
| 24 | sourby | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | source's | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | sourcebook | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | sources' | 2 | 0 |
| 28 | sourcing | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | soured | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | souring | 3 | 0 |
| 31 | souris | 2 | 0 |
| 32 | sourrouille | 3 | 0 |
| 33 | telsource | 2 | 0 |
| 34 | unisource | 3 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "sour".
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "sour" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "sour" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "sour" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "sour".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | star | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | spur | 1 | 13 |
| 3 | scar | 1 | 10 |
| 4 | stir | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | star's | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | sear | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | saar | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | sahr | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | saur | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | savr | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | scor | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | seer | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | sehr | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | serr | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | sher | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | shir | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | shor | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | shur | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | slur | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | soar | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | soir | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | spar | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | suhr | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | swor | 1 | 0 |
Results:
Term
Definitions: 6
Fragments: 34
Sound Alikes: 1
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 24
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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