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Similar words to purves in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
purves (0) - 21 freq
purves' (1) - 1 freq
purses (1) - 1 freq
purvey (1) - 20 freq
curves (1) - 10 freq
turves (1) - 1 freq
purer (2) - 2 freq
purrs (2) - 3 freq
purned (2) - 1 freq
curved (2) - 9 freq
curses (2) - 8 freq
parkes (2) - 2 freq
survey (2) - 33 freq
pursed (2) - 6 freq
burnes (2) - 2 freq
purred (2) - 8 freq
pruves (2) - 1 freq
purlies (2) - 1 freq
purse (2) - 37 freq
ruives (2) - 2 freq
purdas (2) - 1 freq
pruives (2) - 2 freq
pores (2) - 4 freq
purples (2) - 1 freq
porres (2) - 1 freq
purves (0) - 21 freq
proves (2) - 14 freq
pruves (2) - 1 freq
pervs (2) - 1 freq
turves (2) - 1 freq
pruives (2) - 2 freq
curves (2) - 10 freq
purvey (2) - 20 freq
purses (2) - 1 freq
purves' (2) - 1 freq
surveys (3) - 10 freq
purvey's (3) - 1 freq
pure's (3) - 1 freq
porres (3) - 1 freq
pyres (3) - 2 freq
prees (3) - 2 freq
nerves (3) - 43 freq
preives (3) - 1 freq
serves (3) - 26 freq
pores (3) - 4 freq
paves (3) - 1 freq
tarves (3) - 8 freq
sarves (3) - 2 freq
purse (3) - 37 freq
purlies (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - P612
purpose - 73 freq
'perfect - 4 freq
purves - 21 freq
provision - 37 freq
professor - 97 freq
porpoise - 19 freq
'purpose' - 5 freq
proves - 14 freq
propaganda - 19 freq
purposes - 31 freq
perfect - 170 freq
professionally - 5 freq
perfeck - 26 freq
profession - 18 freq
pruifs - 5 freq
perfectly - 41 freq
perhaps - 79 freq
provost - 34 freq
prefesser's - 1 freq
professer - 5 freq
prof's - 4 freq
pruves - 1 freq
proposin - 5 freq
proveesions - 9 freq
professers - 1 freq
provost's - 10 freq
previous - 43 freq
provocation - 1 freq
perfec - 9 freq
professor's - 2 freq
porpoises - 1 freq
probs - 8 freq
professional - 80 freq
prophecy - 4 freq
proposeetion - 3 freq
proveesion - 13 freq
purposeful - 1 freq
purvey's - 1 freq
perfection - 14 freq
professors - 8 freq
professorial - 1 freq
purposely - 1 freq
provoked - 4 freq
probes - 1 freq
proppes - 1 freq
privacy - 12 freq
proof's - 1 freq
propose - 3 freq
prefects - 1 freq
purposefully - 9 freq
professionals - 13 freq
professariat - 1 freq
'propogate - 1 freq
perfeckly - 5 freq
pervously - 1 freq
proposal - 10 freq
provokin - 5 freq
previews - 3 freq
purves's - 5 freq
proaphesy - 2 freq
proaphesie - 1 freq
proaphesied - 1 freq
proafesie - 1 freq
'perfeck - 1 freq
'perfect' - 1 freq
provokes - 3 freq
'perfeckly - 1 freq
prophisy - 4 freq
prophisied - 1 freq
peerification - 1 freq
provokkin - 1 freq
provisions - 12 freq
previously - 2 freq
pervasive - 1 freq
purpose-like - 1 freq
purposs - 3 freq
proveisioun - 2 freq
purpossis - 1 freq
professit - 2 freq
props - 2 freq
profess - 1 freq
proposals - 12 freq
propogator - 1 freq
proposed - 8 freq
proposes - 3 freq
professionalism - 5 freq
preface - 2 freq
proveision - 6 freq
provosts' - 1 freq
perfectit - 2 freq
perhappes - 1 freq
provokan - 1 freq
propagating - 1 freq
prepositions - 10 freq
prefixes - 1 freq
prefix - 3 freq
preposition - 8 freq
preives - 1 freq
prophecies - 2 freq
prophecie - 3 freq
provisional - 1 freq
perfectlike - 1 freq
preposterous - 2 freq
prophesy - 1 freq
provoke - 4 freq
proveison - 1 freq
proveisions - 2 freq
prophesied - 2 freq
proposition - 1 freq
provesioun - 1 freq
pruives - 2 freq
parapsychology - 1 freq
prefixed - 1 freq
proposing - 3 freq
purves' - 1 freq
propagates - 1 freq
proofs - 3 freq
pervs - 1 freq
profeesors - 1 freq
profeshiouns - 1 freq
professioun - 1 freq
perfectionist - 1 freq
preposeetions - 1 freq
perfecktion - 1 freq
provokit - 1 freq
puirfowk - 1 freq
proveisons - 1 freq
perfectionists - 1 freq
provoketh - 1 freq
purification - 1 freq
€˜professionally - 1 freq
professional-leukin - 1 freq
provosts - 1 freq
perfected - 1 freq
€œprovisions - 1 freq
proaphecy - 1 freq
proaphecies - 1 freq
'perhaps - 2 freq
propos - 1 freq
prefect - 2 freq
€œperhaps - 3 freq
propagate - 1 freq
perfeck-like - 1 freq
perpesctives - 1 freq
professed - 3 freq
€˜perfectioun - 1 freq
profest - 1 freq
professions - 1 freq
proficiency - 1 freq
prpspnfoqq - 1 freq
perfeeeeeeects - 1 freq
profjosharp - 1 freq
provoking - 3 freq
proposítion - 1 freq
proffeuese's - 1 freq
profjwr - 1 freq
professoredith - 1 freq
preface' - 1 freq
profusely - 1 freq
perhaips - 1 freq
profgrump - 3 freq
perfectview - 1 freq
perfick - 2 freq
perfect-bound - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - PRFS
purves - 21 freq
proves - 14 freq
pruifs - 5 freq
prof's - 4 freq
pruves - 1 freq
previous - 43 freq
prophecy - 4 freq
purvey's - 1 freq
privacy - 12 freq
proof's - 1 freq
previews - 3 freq
proaphesy - 2 freq
proaphesie - 1 freq
proafesie - 1 freq
prophisy - 4 freq
profess - 1 freq
preface - 2 freq
preives - 1 freq
prophecie - 3 freq
prophesy - 1 freq
pruives - 2 freq
purves' - 1 freq
proofs - 3 freq
pervs - 1 freq
proaphecy - 1 freq
preface' - 1 freq
PURVES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.285005 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 - 0.525182 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 - 0.028160 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 - 0.066582 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 - 0.000855 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.