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Term: sting

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

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sting

Definitions

Noun

  1. A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
  2. A mental pain or distress
  3. A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
  4. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Verb

  1. Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
  2. Deliver a sting to
  3. Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
  4. Cause a stinging pain
  5. Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "sting".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 interesting 4 82
2 existing 3 60
3 distinguished 3 42
4 testing 2 32
5 consisting 3 27
6 distinguish 3 19
7 resting 2 19
8 bursting 2 13
9 lasting 2 13
10 suggesting 3 13
11 adjusting 3 11
12 contrasting 3 11
13 twisting 2 11
14 broadcasting 3 9
15 forecasting 3 9
16 everlasting 4 8
17 requesting 3 8
18 thrusting 2 8
19 assisting 3 7
20 listing 2 7
21 protesting 3 7
22 costing 2 6
23 distinguishing 4 6
24 dusting 2 6
25 insisting 3 6
26 arresting 3 5
27 distinguishes 4 5
28 sting 1 5
29 wasting 2 5
30 casting 2 4
31 disgusting 3 4
32 distinguishable 5 4
33 resisting 3 4
34 trusting 2 4
35 boasting 2 3
36 boosting 2 3
37 exhausting 3 3
38 harvesting 3 3
39 indistinguishable 6 3
40 interestingly 5 3
41 tasting 2 3
42 undistinguished 4 3
43 westinghouse 3 3
44 basting 2 2
45 blasting 2 2
46 digesting 3 2
47 nesting 2 2
48 persisting 3 2
49 stinging 2 2
50 stings 1 2
51 toasting 2 2
52 accosting 3 1
53 attesting 3 1
54 entrusting 3 1
55 feasting 2 1
56 frosting 2 1
57 hastings 2 1
58 investing 3 1
59 listings 2 1
60 manifesting 4 1
61 molesting 3 1
62 ousting 2 1
63 pasting 2 1
64 rusting 2 1
65 stingy 2 1
66 uninteresting 4 1
67 besting 2 0
68 blacklisting 3 0
69 breasting 2 0
70 broadcasting's 3 0
71 busting 2 0
72 castings 2 0
73 coasting 2 0
74 coexisting 4 0
75 composting 3 0
76 contesting 3 0
77 cresting 2 0
78 defrosting 3 0
79 delisting 3 0
80 divesting 3 0
81 encrusting 3 0
82 enlisting 3 0
83 everlastings 4 0
84 fasting 2 0
85 frostings 2 0
86 gusting 2 0
87 hasting 2 0
88 hoisting 2 0
89 hosting 2 0
90 hustings 2 0
91 ingesting 3 0
92 jousting 2 0
93 kersting 2 0
94 kesting 2 0
95 lambasting 3 0
96 lastinger 3 0
97 lastingly 3 0
98 lusting 2 0
99 mistrusting 3 0
100 osting 2 0
101 outlasting 3 0
102 podcasting 3 0
103 posting 2 0
104 postings 2 0
105 preexisting 4 0
106 readjusting 4 0
107 recasting 3 0
108 reinvesting 4 0
109 retesting 3 0
110 roasting 2 0
111 sting's 1 0
112 stinger 2 0
113 stingers 2 0
114 stingier 3 0
115 stinginess 3 0
116 stingley 2 0
117 tastings 2 0
118 thirsting 2 0
119 thristing 2 0
120 typecasting 3 0
121 vesting 2 0
122 westinghouse's 4 0
123 wresting 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "sting".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 swing 1 24
2 sling 1 1

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 sing 1 34
2 testing 2 32
3 string 1 19
4 strings 1 16
5 wasting 2 5
6 storing 2 4
7 tasting 2 3
8 stringy 2 3
9 stings 1 2
10 stingy 2 1
11 styling 2 1
12 siting 2 0
13 osting 2 0
14 ting 1 0
15 stig 1 0
16 vesting 2 0
17 suiting 2 0
18 stowing 2 0
19 stoning 2 0
20 stoking 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 stung 1 2
2 stang 1 0
3 sting's 1 0
4 stong 1 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 9

Fragments: 123

Sound Alikes: 2

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 0

Consonant Matches: 4

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

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