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Term: allow

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

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Definitions

Verb

  1. Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
  2. Consent to, give permission
  3. Let have
  4. Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
  5. Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
  6. Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
  7. Afford possibility
  8. Allow the other (baseball) team to score
  9. Grant as a discount or in exchange
  10. Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "allow".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 allowed 2 86
2 allow 2 72
3 allowing 3 31
4 allowances 4 25
5 allows 2 19
6 allowance 3 16
7 shallow 2 14
8 swallowed 2 12
9 swallow 2 10
10 allowable 4 5
11 swallowing 3 3
12 gallows 2 2
13 hallowed 2 2
14 swallows 2 2
15 disallowed 3 1
16 fallow 2 1
17 halloween 3 1
18 marshmallows 3 1
19 shallower 3 1
20 shallowness 3 1
21 tallow 2 1
22 wallow 2 1
23 wallowed 2 1
24 wallowing 3 1
25 alloway 3 0
26 ballow 2 0
27 ballowe 2 0
28 callow 2 0
29 calloway 3 0
30 disallow 3 0
31 disallowance 4 0
32 disallowances 5 0
33 disallowing 4 0
34 fallows 2 0
35 gallow 2 0
36 galloway 3 0
37 galloways 3 0
38 hallow 2 0
39 halloway 3 0
40 hallowe'en 3 0
41 hallowell 3 0
42 hallows 2 0
43 mallow 2 0
44 mallows 2 0
45 marshmallow 3 0
46 reallowance 4 0
47 unallowable 5 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "allow".

# Word Syllables Freq

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 allowed 2 86
2 allows 2 19
3 shallow 2 14
4 swallow 2 10
5 gallows 2 2
6 wallow 2 1
7 tallow 2 1
8 fallow 2 1
9 mallow 2 0
10 hallow 2 0
11 gallow 2 0
12 callow 2 0
13 ballow 2 0
14 mallows 2 0
15 hallows 2 0
16 fallows 2 0
17 ballowe 2 0
18 alloway 3 0
19 wallo 2 0
20 vallo 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 allow the 1 12
2 allow for 1 4
3 allow it 1 3
4 allow him 1 2
5 allow people 2 2
6 allow a 1 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 to allow 1 18
2 not allow 1 5
3 would allow 1 5
4 will allow 1 3
5 which allow 1 2
6 systems allow 2 2
7 also allow 2 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 designed 2 2
2 present 2 2
3 refused 2 2
4 data 2 2
5 desire 3 2
6 sheridan 3 2
7 physics 2 2
8 properties 3 2
9 authors 2 2
10 systems 2 2
11 lighting 2 2
12 simply 2 2
13 program 2 2
14 features 2 2
15 congress 2 2
16 would 1 2
17 star 1 2
18 apparatuses 5 2
19 designs 2 2
20 sites 1 2
21 also 2 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq

Results:

Term

Definitions: 10

Fragments: 47

Sound Alikes: 0

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 6

Words that Precede: 7

Statistically Associated: 21

Consonant Matches: 0

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

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