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Similar words to failin in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
failin (0) - 27 freq
bailin (1) - 3 freq
flailin (1) - 9 freq
fallin (1) - 48 freq
dailin (1) - 1 freq
nailin (1) - 1 freq
filin (1) - 3 freq
failins (1) - 1 freq
pailin (1) - 8 freq
failing (1) - 2 freq
fairin (1) - 13 freq
failit (1) - 2 freq
tailin (1) - 1 freq
faalin (1) - 12 freq
mailin (1) - 3 freq
ailin (1) - 2 freq
failin' (1) - 1 freq
wailin (1) - 11 freq
railin (1) - 12 freq
sailin (1) - 38 freq
hailin (1) - 7 freq
hailsin (2) - 2 freq
taislin (2) - 3 freq
raiblin (2) - 1 freq
smilin (2) - 155 freq
failin (0) - 27 freq
filin (1) - 3 freq
faalin (1) - 12 freq
hailin (2) - 7 freq
fylin (2) - 1 freq
railin (2) - 12 freq
wailin (2) - 11 freq
foalin (2) - 1 freq
failin' (2) - 1 freq
faalan (2) - 4 freq
fulin (2) - 2 freq
feilan (2) - 2 freq
faelan (2) - 1 freq
fliein (2) - 4 freq
feelin (2) - 497 freq
sailin (2) - 38 freq
dailin (2) - 1 freq
ailin (2) - 2 freq
fallin (2) - 48 freq
flailin (2) - 9 freq
bailin (2) - 3 freq
failins (2) - 1 freq
nailin (2) - 1 freq
fairin (2) - 13 freq
pailin (2) - 8 freq
SoundEx code - F450
fleein - 174 freq
flame - 46 freq
feelin - 497 freq
flown - 15 freq
flyin - 45 freq
flawn - 4 freq
felon - 2 freq
follaein - 171 freq
film - 138 freq
flowin - 22 freq
fallin - 48 freq
fillin - 63 freq
fallen - 29 freq
feline - 16 freq
flewn - 1 freq
followin - 40 freq
falloein - 2 freq
follyin - 4 freq
folleyin - 2 freq
failin - 27 freq
flyan - 17 freq
faalin - 12 freq
flane - 2 freq
feilan - 2 freq
fillan - 8 freq
feelin' - 21 freq
fillin' - 1 freq
flyin' - 1 freq
follyen - 2 freq
feelen - 5 freq
fullen - 1 freq
flowen - 2 freq
fulm - 2 freq
flynn - 8 freq
filin - 3 freq
fullin - 29 freq
full-on - 5 freq
feelan - 18 freq
fleean - 7 freq
follownn - 1 freq
fal'in - 1 freq
falin' - 1 freq
follain - 3 freq
flan - 3 freq
folla'in - 2 freq
flem - 1 freq
fallan - 4 freq
fallyin - 1 freq
fillim - 2 freq
flowan - 1 freq
flayin - 1 freq
feeleen - 3 freq
faalan - 4 freq
followan - 1 freq
flayan - 2 freq
fellen - 1 freq
flowin' - 1 freq
folloaein - 2 freq
failin' - 1 freq
flehm - 1 freq
follooin - 6 freq
fllin - 1 freq
flam - 3 freq
fliein - 4 freq
fell-him-na - 1 freq
fleen - 4 freq
flawin - 1 freq
fulin - 2 freq
foalin - 1 freq
felnie - 1 freq
fylin - 1 freq
flowein - 1 freq
foallien - 1 freq
folliein - 2 freq
follien - 1 freq
fellin - 3 freq
flaen - 2 freq
fowlin - 1 freq
fillum - 9 freq
fallaen - 6 freq
fallean - 1 freq
filum - 3 freq
follaen - 4 freq
followin' - 1 freq
faelan - 1 freq
fellaini - 1 freq
fleein' - 2 freq
fulham - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FLN
fleein - 174 freq
feelin - 497 freq
flown - 15 freq
flawn - 4 freq
felon - 2 freq
follaein - 171 freq
fallin - 48 freq
fillin - 63 freq
fallen - 29 freq
feline - 16 freq
flewn - 1 freq
falloein - 2 freq
failin - 27 freq
faalin - 12 freq
flane - 2 freq
feilan - 2 freq
fillan - 8 freq
feelin' - 21 freq
fillin' - 1 freq
feelen - 5 freq
fullen - 1 freq
flynn - 8 freq
filin - 3 freq
fullin - 29 freq
full-on - 5 freq
feelan - 18 freq
fleean - 7 freq
follownn - 1 freq
violin - 3 freq
fal'in - 1 freq
falin' - 1 freq
follain - 3 freq
flan - 3 freq
villainy - 1 freq
folla'in - 2 freq
fallan - 4 freq
feeleen - 3 freq
faalan - 4 freq
fellen - 1 freq
folloaein - 2 freq
failin' - 1 freq
follooin - 6 freq
fllin - 1 freq
fliein - 4 freq
fleen - 4 freq
fulin - 2 freq
valuin - 2 freq
foalin - 1 freq
felnie - 1 freq
veillane - 2 freq
fylin - 1 freq
villain - 3 freq
foallien - 1 freq
folliein - 2 freq
follien - 1 freq
fellin - 3 freq
villon - 1 freq
flaen - 2 freq
fowlin - 1 freq
fallaen - 6 freq
fallean - 1 freq
follaen - 4 freq
faelan - 1 freq
fellaini - 1 freq
fleein' - 2 freq
FAILIN
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.189183 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 - 0.370910 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 - 0.027675 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 - 0.039409 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 - 0.000967 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.