falling
Definitions
Adjective
- Becoming lower or less in degree or value
Verb
- Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- Come under, be classified or included
- Fall from clouds
- Suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- Die, as in battle or in a hunt
- Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- Be captured
- Occur at a specified time or place
- Decrease in size, extent, or range
- Yield to temptation or sin
- Lose office or power
- To be given by assignment or distribution
- Move in a specified direction
- Be due
- Lose one's chastity
- To be given by right or inheritance
- Come into the possession of
- Fall to somebody by assignment or lot
- Be inherited by
- Slope downward
- Lose an upright position suddenly
- Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- Fall or flow in a certain way
- Assume a disappointed or sad expression
- Be cast down
- Come out; issue
- Be born, used chiefly of lambs
- Begin vigorously
- Go as if by falling
- Come as if by falling
Fragment
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Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "falling".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feeling | 2 | 172 |
| 2 | fighting | 2 | 72 |
| 3 | flying | 2 | 43 |
| 4 | filling | 2 | 36 |
| 5 | facing | 2 | 34 |
| 6 | fishing | 2 | 32 |
| 7 | feeding | 2 | 26 |
| 8 | firing | 2 | 24 |
| 9 | filing | 2 | 19 |
| 10 | failing | 2 | 17 |
| 11 | fitting | 2 | 17 |
| 12 | flowing | 2 | 17 |
| 13 | fleeing | 2 | 10 |
| 14 | foaming | 2 | 6 |
| 15 | fading | 2 | 5 |
| 16 | fanning | 2 | 5 |
| 17 | fearing | 2 | 5 |
| 18 | fetching | 2 | 3 |
| 19 | fooling | 2 | 3 |
| 20 | footing | 2 | 3 |
| 21 | fouling | 2 | 3 |
| 22 | freeing | 2 | 3 |
| 23 | affirming | 3 | 2 |
| 24 | felling | 2 | 2 |
| 25 | fussing | 2 | 2 |
| 26 | fawning | 2 | 1 |
| 27 | feigning | 2 | 1 |
| 28 | affining | 3 | 0 |
| 29 | effacing | 3 | 0 |
| 30 | faking | 2 | 0 |
| 31 | fasching | 2 | 0 |
| 32 | fehling | 2 | 0 |
| 33 | fehring | 2 | 0 |
| 34 | fetting | 2 | 0 |
| 35 | fining | 2 | 0 |
| 36 | finning | 2 | 0 |
| 37 | firming | 2 | 0 |
| 38 | foaling | 2 | 0 |
| 39 | foiling | 2 | 0 |
| 40 | fraying | 2 | 0 |
| 41 | frying | 2 | 0 |
| 42 | fucking | 2 | 0 |
| 43 | fudging | 2 | 0 |
| 44 | pfenning | 2 | 0 |
| 45 | phasing | 2 | 0 |
| 46 | phishing | 2 | 0 |
| 47 | phoning | 2 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "falling".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calling | 2 | 45 |
| 2 | filling | 2 | 36 |
| 3 | failing | 2 | 17 |
| 4 | felling | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | fling | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | stalling | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | galling | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | balling | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | fallin | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | alling | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | walling | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | salling | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | halling | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | foaling | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | farling | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | allying | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | falin | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | allin | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | tallying | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | smalling | 2 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "falling" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "falling" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
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Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "falling" in the same piece of text.
Results:
Term
Definitions: 33
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 47
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 4
Consonant Matches: 2
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
📰 This Word in the News:
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Nov 6, 2026 NZ Herald
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