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Term: long

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

  1. Term
  2. long

long

Definitions

Adjective

  1. Primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
  2. Primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
  3. Good at remembering
  4. Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
  5. (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration

Verb

  1. Desire strongly or persistently

Adverb

  1. For an extended time or at a distant time
  2. For an extended distance
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "long".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 long 1 752
2 along 2 355
3 longer 2 193
4 long-range 2 42
5 belong 2 37
6 long-term 2 32
7 belongs 2 22
8 belonged 2 17
9 prolonged 2 16
10 alongside 3 15
11 belonging 3 13
12 longing 2 10
13 longed 1 7
14 longest 2 6
15 elongated 4 5
16 longhorns 2 5
17 belongings 3 4
18 longhorn 2 4
19 elongation 4 3
20 longstanding 3 3
21 long-distance 3 2
22 longevity 4 2
23 longhand 2 2
24 longings 2 2
25 longstreet 2 2
26 prolonging 3 2
27 budlong 2 1
28 lifelong 2 1
29 long-overdue 4 1
30 longfellow 3 1
31 longish 2 1
32 longitude 3 1
33 longitudes 3 1
34 longitudinal 5 1
35 longs 1 1
36 longshoremen 3 1
37 longshoremen's 3 1
38 longshot 2 1
39 longtime 2 1
40 longwood 2 1
41 oblong 2 1
42 prolong 2 1
43 prolongs 2 1
44 adlong 2 0
45 alonge 2 0
46 alongi 3 0
47 alongs 2 0
48 belongia 3 0
49 chamlong 2 0
50 daylong 2 0
51 delong 2 0
52 dulong 2 0
53 elongate 3 0
54 furlong 2 0
55 headlong 2 0
56 herlong 2 0
57 hindelong 3 0
58 hopalong 3 0
59 hourlong 2 0
60 long's 1 0
61 long-winded 3 0
62 longacre 3 0
63 longaker 3 0
64 longan 2 0
65 longanecker 4 0
66 longbow 2 0
67 longbrake 2 0
68 longcor 2 0
69 longden 2 0
70 longe 1 0
71 longenecker 3 0
72 longerbeam 3 0
73 longfield 2 0
74 longhair 2 0
75 longhi 2 0
76 longhouse 2 0
77 longhurst 2 0
78 longingly 3 0
79 longino 3 0
80 longleaf 2 0
81 longleg 2 0
82 longlegs 2 0
83 longley 2 0
84 longman 2 0
85 longmeyer 3 0
86 longmeyer's 3 0
87 longmire 2 0
88 longmont 2 0
89 longmore 2 0
90 longnecker 3 0
91 longo 2 0
92 longobardi 4 0
93 longoria 4 0
94 longpre 2 0
95 longrange 2 0
96 longshore 2 0
97 longspur 2 0
98 longspurs 2 0
99 longstaff 2 0
100 longstreth 2 0
101 longsworth 2 0
102 longterm 2 0
103 longtin 2 0
104 longton 2 0
105 longuet 2 0
106 longview 2 0
107 longwell 2 0
108 longworth 2 0
109 long_beach 2 0
110 long_island 3 0
111 montelongo 4 0
112 monthlong 2 0
113 oolong 2 0
114 salonga 3 0
115 sotolongo 4 0
116 thousand-years-long 4 0
117 weeklong 2 0
118 yearlong 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "long".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 along 2 355

Spelled Like

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 along 2 355
2 losing 2 28
3 loving 2 15
4 log 1 11
5 lounge 1 9
6 longs 1 1
7 oblong 2 1
8 luong 2 0
9 loong 1 0
10 longo 2 0
11 longe 1 0
12 leong 1 0
13 ong 1 0
14 lon 1 0
15 oolong 2 0
16 luongo 3 0
17 lowing 2 0
18 loring 2 0
19 lorang 2 0
20 longhi 2 0

Words That Follow

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 long as 1 8
2 long term 1 4
3 long and 1 4
4 long period 3 4
5 long time 1 3
6 long after 2 3
7 long had 1 3
8 long been 1 2
9 long tail 1 2
10 long line 1 2
11 long before 2 2
12 long range 1 2
13 long enough 2 2
14 long history 3 2
15 long instruction 3 2
16 long live 1 2

Words That Precede

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 a long 1 17
2 the long 1 8
3 as long 1 6
4 very long 2 3
5 has long 1 3
6 for long 1 3
7 scott long 1 3
8 were long 1 2
9 not long 1 2
10 and long 1 2
11 so long 1 2
12 had long 1 2
13 ford long 1 2
14 was long 1 2

Statistically Associated

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 ford 1 4
2 terms 1 2
3 cancer 2 2
4 indicates 3 2
5 metres 2 2
6 rotation 3 2
7 food 1 2
8 equality 4 2
9 americans 4 2
10 possibly 3 2
11 presence 2 2
12 scott 1 2
13 area 3 2
14 rates 1 2
15 unusually 5 2
16 afforded 3 2
17 feet 1 2
18 battleships 3 2
19 designed 2 2
20 channel 2 2
21 horse 1 2
22 administered 4 2
23 lived 1 2
24 liverpool 3 2
25 infrastructure 4 2
26 origin 3 2
27 descended 3 2
28 succeed 2 2
29 existed 3 2
30 include 2 2
31 strategy 3 2
32 wants 1 2
33 determined 3 2
34 though 1 2
35 whether 2 2
36 maximize 3 2
37 including 3 2

Consonant Match

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

# Word Syllables Freq
1 long-range 2 42
2 long-term 2 32
3 lung 1 16
4 long-distance 3 2
5 lang 1 1
6 long-overdue 4 1
7 leng 1 0
8 ling 1 0
9 long's 1 0
10 long-winded 3 0
11 lyng 1 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 8

Fragments: 118

Sound Alikes: 1

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 16

Words that Precede: 14

Statistically Associated: 37

Consonant Matches: 11

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

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