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Similar words to chairles in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
chairles (0) - 16 freq
chairges (1) - 11 freq
chairlies (1) - 1 freq
charles (1) - 51 freq
chairs (2) - 63 freq
cairies (2) - 4 freq
chairms (2) - 1 freq
hairies (2) - 4 freq
chairles's (2) - 1 freq
charges (2) - 15 freq
chairlie (2) - 273 freq
chairlie' (2) - 1 freq
cairves (2) - 2 freq
charley (2) - 1 freq
chairge (2) - 124 freq
carles (2) - 6 freq
thaires (2) - 2 freq
chairlie's (2) - 21 freq
hairmles (2) - 1 freq
chirls (2) - 2 freq
hairless (2) - 2 freq
chairmed (2) - 4 freq
chairters (2) - 2 freq
chairger (2) - 2 freq
chainges (2) - 7 freq
chairles (0) - 16 freq
chairlies (1) - 1 freq
charles (1) - 51 freq
chairges (2) - 11 freq
chirls (2) - 2 freq
charley (3) - 1 freq
charle (3) - 1 freq
charlen (3) - 1 freq
chairlie' (3) - 1 freq
chairlie's (3) - 21 freq
carles (3) - 6 freq
chairlie (3) - 273 freq
chairs (3) - 63 freq
chairms (3) - 1 freq
charges (3) - 15 freq
chairts (3) - 8 freq
carlos (4) - 3 freq
chablis (4) - 1 freq
cheils (4) - 33 freq
cherries (4) - 5 freq
whirlies (4) - 2 freq
cheales (4) - 1 freq
charms (4) - 8 freq
chairiots (4) - 1 freq
chars (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - C642
carelessly - 7 freq
careless - 10 freq
curls - 36 freq
charles - 51 freq
carroll's - 1 freq
curlicue - 1 freq
carlisle - 4 freq
creels - 24 freq
carlsberg - 3 freq
carlie's - 1 freq
cherlie's - 6 freq
charlestoun - 1 freq
cyrillic - 1 freq
carlo's - 2 freq
charlie's - 9 freq
chairles - 16 freq
chairles's - 1 freq
carles - 6 freq
creel's - 3 freq
carlos - 3 freq
carelessness - 3 freq
curlicues - 2 freq
chairlies - 1 freq
charleston - 2 freq
charolais - 1 freq
chairlie's - 21 freq
'chairlie's - 1 freq
curlew's - 1 freq
crowls - 1 freq
charles's - 1 freq
crulged - 5 freq
creel-chair - 1 freq
carl's - 1 freq
crewless - 1 freq
crallowsha - 1 freq
crawls - 1 freq
craals - 1 freq
cruellest - 2 freq
chirls - 2 freq
carlochy - 1 freq
crulge - 1 freq
carols - 3 freq
corrlichie - 2 freq
creils - 1 freq
cròileagain - 1 freq
crawlies - 1 freq
cereals - 2 freq
carluke - 2 freq
crulgit - 2 freq
craalies - 3 freq
carlyeaston - 1 freq
charliechock - 1 freq
carrolls - 1 freq
corralejo - 1 freq
curlysoo - 1 freq
carl’s - 1 freq
carlgo - 1 freq
curlewsincrisis - 1 freq
carolst - 1 freq
curlews - 1 freq
cgrlwxecju - 1 freq
carolecadwalla - 1 freq
charlesponzi - 6 freq
charliegracie - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - XRLS
charles - 51 freq
cherlie's - 6 freq
charlie's - 9 freq
chairles - 16 freq
chairlies - 1 freq
charolais - 1 freq
chairlie's - 21 freq
'chairlie's - 1 freq
chirls - 2 freq
CHAIRLES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.186477 milliseconds
The Levenshtein distance is the number of characters you have to replace, insert or delete to transform one word into another, its useful for detecting typos and alternative spellings
Time to execute Double Levenshtein function - 0.325371 milliseconds
In a stroke of genius, this runs the Levenshtein function twice, once without vowels and adds the distance together, giving double weight to consonants.
Time to execute SoundEx function - 0.027586 milliseconds
Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for homophones to be encoded to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling.
Time to execute MetaPhone function - 0.037216 milliseconds
Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, published by Lawrence Philips in 1990, for indexing words by their English pronunciation.[1] It fundamentally improves on the Soundex algorithm by using information about variations and inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation to produce a more accurate encoding, which does a better job of matching words and names which sound similar.
Time to execute Manually curated function - 0.000837 milliseconds
Manual Curation uses a lookup table / lexicon which has been created by hand which links words to their lemmas, and includes obvious typos and spelling variations. Not all words are covered.