leakey
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Noun
- English paleontologist (son of louis leakey and mary leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
- English paleontologist (the wife of louis leakey) who discovered the zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
- English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "leakey".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lucky | 2 | 21 |
| 2 | blakey | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | flaky | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | leaky | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | blackie | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | blaikie | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | cluckey | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | clukey | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | lackey | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | lackie | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | lakey | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | leckey | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | leckie | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | lewke | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | loci | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | lockey | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | lockie | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | lokey | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | luckey | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | luckie | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | plucky | 2 | 0 |
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Words that contain the same consonants as the term "leakey".
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| 1 | looked | 1 | 367 |
| 2 | locked | 1 | 30 |
| 3 | lacked | 1 | 19 |
| 4 | linked | 1 | 16 |
| 5 | larkin | 2 | 10 |
| 6 | licked | 1 | 10 |
| 7 | locker | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | lookup | 2 | 7 |
| 9 | leaked | 1 | 5 |
| 10 | lookit | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | lurked | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | lockup | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | lucked | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | laakso | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | lackey | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | lackie | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | lamkin | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | lankan | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | larkey | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | lasker | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | laskey | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | laskin | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | latkas | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | leaker | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | leckey | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | leckie | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | leikam | 2 | 0 |
| 28 | leiken | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | leiker | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | lenker | 2 | 0 |
| 31 | licker | 2 | 0 |
| 32 | linker | 2 | 0 |
| 33 | linkup | 2 | 0 |
| 34 | lipkin | 2 | 0 |
| 35 | liskey | 2 | 0 |
| 36 | locken | 2 | 0 |
| 37 | locket | 2 | 0 |
| 38 | lockey | 2 | 0 |
| 39 | lockie | 2 | 0 |
| 40 | lokken | 2 | 0 |
| 41 | looker | 2 | 0 |
| 42 | lookin' | 2 | 0 |
| 43 | lucken | 2 | 0 |
| 44 | lucker | 2 | 0 |
| 45 | luckey | 2 | 0 |
| 46 | luckie | 2 | 0 |
| 47 | luckow | 2 | 0 |
| 48 | luckyn | 2 | 0 |
| 49 | lueken | 2 | 0 |
| 50 | lufkin | 2 | 0 |
| 51 | lugkov | 2 | 0 |
| 52 | luskin | 2 | 0 |
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Definitions: 3
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 21
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 52
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
📰 This Word in the News:
Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey Talks Turkana Basin Discoveries at Peabody Museum
Apr 18, 2025 The Harvard Crimson
Apr 18, 2025 The Harvard Crimson
Welcome to the Ruthless, Cutthroat World of Paleoanthropology (Published 2020)
Dec 22, 2020 The New York Times
Dec 22, 2020 The New York Times

