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Similar words to measures in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
measures (0) - 16 freq
meisures (1) - 8 freq
meesures (1) - 1 freq
measured (1) - 6 freq
measure (1) - 27 freq
measur't (2) - 1 freq
maesures (2) - 1 freq
missures (2) - 2 freq
misures (2) - 9 freq
meisure (2) - 20 freq
reassures (2) - 1 freq
meesure (2) - 2 freq
pleasures (2) - 11 freq
measles (2) - 5 freq
meisurs (2) - 1 freq
features (2) - 45 freq
meisured (2) - 5 freq
measuirs (2) - 1 freq
matures (2) - 2 freq
treasures (2) - 4 freq
ensures (2) - 3 freq
measurin (2) - 4 freq
reassured (3) - 9 freq
misure (3) - 8 freq
messes (3) - 1 freq
measures (0) - 16 freq
meesures (1) - 1 freq
meisures (1) - 8 freq
misures (2) - 9 freq
measuirs (2) - 1 freq
maesures (2) - 1 freq
meisurs (2) - 1 freq
measured (2) - 6 freq
measure (2) - 27 freq
meisured (3) - 5 freq
ensures (3) - 3 freq
measurin (3) - 4 freq
missures (3) - 2 freq
matures (3) - 2 freq
meisure (3) - 20 freq
meesure (3) - 2 freq
measles (3) - 5 freq
desires (4) - 10 freq
memores (4) - 1 freq
miseries (4) - 2 freq
meisur (4) - 17 freq
misured (4) - 4 freq
measuir (4) - 1 freq
misers (4) - 1 freq
messrs (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - M262
measures - 16 freq
machar's - 4 freq
makers - 7 freq
makars - 79 freq
muckers - 4 freq
mackers - 1 freq
mccracken - 1 freq
mcguire's - 2 freq
makar's - 17 freq
major's - 4 freq
microscope - 7 freq
émigrés - 1 freq
maquereaux - 1 freq
mckerrow's - 1 freq
makker's - 1 freq
meesher's - 1 freq
maisser's - 1 freq
maissers - 1 freq
macgreegor - 2 freq
misers - 1 freq
makkars - 12 freq
mcgregors - 2 freq
majorca - 8 freq
mcgregor - 25 freq
mcgregor's - 2 freq
mowsers - 1 freq
miseries - 2 freq
microsoft - 6 freq
'microsoft - 2 freq
macarsey - 2 freq
makkers - 2 freq
mascarg - 1 freq
mcgreegor - 2 freq
machars - 4 freq
measuirs - 1 freq
microscooter - 1 freq
microscopic - 1 freq
meisures - 8 freq
meisurestae - 1 freq
'mikros' - 1 freq
'microcosm' - 1 freq
misery-guts - 1 freq
mizhures - 8 freq
microscopp - 1 freq
meisurs - 1 freq
maesures - 1 freq
messrs - 1 freq
miscarriages - 2 freq
mckirk - 1 freq
maakers - 3 freq
missures - 2 freq
mccreishies - 2 freq
macgregor - 3 freq
meesures - 1 freq
mock-heroic - 1 freq
makars' - 2 freq
microscowp - 1 freq
miser's - 1 freq
microsoft's - 1 freq
mowser's - 1 freq
mixers - 1 freq
makkowers - 1 freq
maker-chiel - 1 freq
misures - 9 freq
miseryguts - 5 freq
microhistory - 1 freq
microchip - 1 freq
microcosm - 1 freq
migraasje - 8 freq
misregaird - 1 freq
maigraeshin - 1 freq
mccarryjane - 1 freq
moosyercoo - 9 freq
maxgeorge - 11 freq
microsffsco - 1 freq
maskers - 1 freq
mxsxrz - 1 freq
microsculpture - 1 freq
mkrxfw - 1 freq
mickcraig - 1 freq
mcharg - 1 freq
maxrushden - 1 freq
microcosmic - 1 freq
makaris - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - MSRS
measures - 16 freq
maisser's - 1 freq
maissers - 1 freq
misers - 1 freq
mowsers - 1 freq
miseries - 2 freq
measuirs - 1 freq
meisures - 8 freq
meisurs - 1 freq
maesures - 1 freq
messrs - 1 freq
missures - 2 freq
meesures - 1 freq
miser's - 1 freq
mowser's - 1 freq
misures - 9 freq
MEASURES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.198135 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 - 0.346049 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 - 0.028800 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 - 0.038230 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 - 0.000852 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.