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Similar words to seals in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
seals (0) - 22 freq
soals (1) - 1 freq
deals (1) - 18 freq
sells (1) - 15 freq
seas (1) - 56 freq
sels (1) - 7 freq
beals (1) - 1 freq
sea's (1) - 15 freq
seams (1) - 6 freq
meals (1) - 39 freq
heals (1) - 5 freq
seal (1) - 31 freq
steals (1) - 2 freq
sealt (1) - 2 freq
seats (1) - 76 freq
sals (1) - 1 freq
peals (1) - 2 freq
geans (2) - 2 freq
sea' (2) - 4 freq
swall (2) - 20 freq
sess (2) - 3 freq
seys (2) - 81 freq
dells (2) - 1 freq
fears (2) - 40 freq
wals (2) - 1 freq
seals (0) - 22 freq
sels (1) - 7 freq
sals (1) - 1 freq
soals (1) - 1 freq
saels (2) - 1 freq
slaes (2) - 6 freq
sauls (2) - 14 freq
sales (2) - 31 freq
salsa (2) - 3 freq
salus (2) - 1 freq
souls (2) - 24 freq
sls (2) - 8 freq
sails (2) - 39 freq
sells (2) - 15 freq
peals (2) - 2 freq
sea's (2) - 15 freq
seams (2) - 6 freq
beals (2) - 1 freq
deals (2) - 18 freq
seas (2) - 56 freq
heals (2) - 5 freq
meals (2) - 39 freq
steals (2) - 2 freq
sealt (2) - 2 freq
seats (2) - 76 freq
SoundEx code - S420
schuils - 138 freq
sowls - 28 freq
swallows - 9 freq
sls - 8 freq
slice - 63 freq
°slike - 1 freq
seals - 22 freq
soles - 16 freq
sowels - 29 freq
slaiks - 3 freq
skails - 12 freq
scales - 21 freq
slock - 7 freq
slaik - 1 freq
sails - 39 freq
solace - 16 freq
sauls - 14 freq
skulks - 3 freq
slug - 11 freq
scauls - 1 freq
sleek - 13 freq
slack - 27 freq
sulks - 3 freq
sales - 31 freq
slook - 2 freq
sleeks - 1 freq
silk - 38 freq
shells - 23 freq
sells - 15 freq
slows - 4 freq
schools - 42 freq
scuil-weik - 1 freq
scuils - 53 freq
slash - 9 freq
swallaes - 8 freq
slugs - 10 freq
seleck - 2 freq
selkie - 17 freq
slaes - 6 freq
's'like - 1 freq
skweels - 10 freq
slick - 9 freq
souls - 24 freq
skulls - 6 freq
skulk - 1 freq
sels - 7 freq
sluice - 3 freq
soul's - 3 freq
shills - 3 freq
silky - 9 freq
sheila's - 1 freq
squallach - 1 freq
sowls' - 1 freq
shuils - 5 freq
schuil's - 1 freq
sally's - 25 freq
swalls - 4 freq
sles - 1 freq
sloch - 4 freq
skeels - 48 freq
sloosh - 6 freq
sqweel's - 1 freq
selkee - 1 freq
seylkee - 1 freq
slaak - 5 freq
scail's - 1 freq
skill's - 1 freq
slick's - 1 freq
sail's - 2 freq
sayle's - 1 freq
slosh - 2 freq
sylkee - 3 freq
slag - 16 freq
skills - 59 freq
silage - 18 freq
sweels - 2 freq
scoolies - 1 freq
sallies - 3 freq
squeals - 12 freq
slak - 2 freq
schloss - 3 freq
scowls - 2 freq
sleigh - 9 freq
slicks - 1 freq
slochie - 3 freq
shawlies - 1 freq
schuil-hoose - 1 freq
schools' - 4 freq
soul-less - 1 freq
sulk - 3 freq
sleezy - 1 freq
sillicks - 1 freq
sulky - 7 freq
school's - 8 freq
shoulg - 1 freq
slouch - 2 freq
sleazy - 1 freq
sullies - 3 freq
'slice - 1 freq
salsa - 3 freq
sculls - 1 freq
scuil-hoose - 2 freq
solos - 2 freq
sulla's - 1 freq
shalls - 6 freq
saul's - 5 freq
saelike - 3 freq
selkse - 1 freq
shoeless - 1 freq
sae-lik - 1 freq
swaalls - 4 freq
sealess - 1 freq
shools - 12 freq
skules - 4 freq
swallae-hawk - 1 freq
sylk - 1 freq
saels - 1 freq
shoe-laece - 1 freq
swelkie - 1 freq
slushy - 1 freq
saulless - 1 freq
shoals - 1 freq
sclice - 2 freq
skæls - 1 freq
soals - 1 freq
shallas - 1 freq
squalls - 1 freq
saw-like - 1 freq
schuills - 3 freq
sküls - 2 freq
sillock - 2 freq
silks - 2 freq
squalloch - 2 freq
skelloch - 5 freq
'slock - 1 freq
shiels - 4 freq
skuils - 6 freq
sowells - 1 freq
schlag - 1 freq
swelchie - 1 freq
sleech - 1 freq
skeills - 6 freq
shawls - 2 freq
skeils - 1 freq
slaws - 1 freq
selecks - 1 freq
slaggi - 1 freq
siles - 1 freq
sea-loch - 1 freq
sleikie - 1 freq
sklaik - 2 freq
swallas - 1 freq
€œschuils - 1 freq
skaills - 1 freq
slokk - 1 freq
sculis - 2 freq
sleke - 1 freq
soylik - 1 freq
sliga - 3 freq
schulehoose - 1 freq
schulies - 1 freq
salus - 1 freq
sals - 1 freq
slake - 2 freq
saelik - 1 freq
slc - 19 freq
sleekie - 2 freq
sillocks - 2 freq
schules - 3 freq
silkie - 3 freq
scules - 1 freq
soulless - 3 freq
sills - 1 freq
skills' - 1 freq
skweelhoose - 4 freq
slacks - 1 freq
shallis - 1 freq
squelch - 2 freq
schuiles - 1 freq
sileage - 1 freq
scuilhoose - 1 freq
silica - 1 freq
sluagh - 2 freq
sleaze - 2 freq
sillos - 1 freq
selleck - 1 freq
salchow - 1 freq
sleeze - 1 freq
sulaco - 1 freq
sgywlx - 1 freq
sloss - 2 freq
slx - 1 freq
scholls - 1 freq
sillies - 1 freq
skuills - 1 freq
swells - 1 freq
sllq - 1 freq
skools - 1 freq
shlg - 1 freq
sjölik - 1 freq
schoolhouse - 1 freq
'schools' - 1 freq
scalesy - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SLS
sowls - 28 freq
sls - 8 freq
slice - 63 freq
seals - 22 freq
soles - 16 freq
sails - 39 freq
solace - 16 freq
sauls - 14 freq
sales - 31 freq
sells - 15 freq
slows - 4 freq
slaes - 6 freq
cells - 16 freq
souls - 24 freq
sels - 7 freq
sluice - 3 freq
soul's - 3 freq
sowls' - 1 freq
sally's - 25 freq
sles - 1 freq
sail's - 2 freq
sayle's - 1 freq
zool's - 1 freq
sallies - 3 freq
sleezy - 1 freq
sleazy - 1 freq
sullies - 3 freq
'slice - 1 freq
salsa - 3 freq
solos - 2 freq
sulla's - 1 freq
saul's - 5 freq
cello's - 1 freq
sealess - 1 freq
saels - 1 freq
cell's - 1 freq
saulless - 1 freq
soals - 1 freq
zola's - 1 freq
slaws - 1 freq
siles - 1 freq
salus - 1 freq
sals - 1 freq
soulless - 3 freq
sills - 1 freq
zealous - 1 freq
sleaze - 2 freq
sillos - 1 freq
sleeze - 1 freq
sloss - 2 freq
sillies - 1 freq
xlz - 1 freq
zils - 1 freq
SEALS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.213737 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 - 0.350357 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 - 0.028690 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 - 0.037779 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 - 0.000924 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.