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Similar words to hum in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
hum (0) - 45 freq
hem (1) - 27 freq
hym (1) - 5 freq
hul (1) - 6 freq
huy (1) - 4 freq
hug (1) - 41 freq
bum (1) - 44 freq
hums (1) - 3 freq
huh (1) - 16 freq
lum (1) - 140 freq
hue (1) - 24 freq
gum (1) - 19 freq
fum (1) - 1 freq
hump (1) - 15 freq
jum (1) - 3 freq
humf (1) - 1 freq
hub (1) - 31 freq
hus (1) - 464 freq
wum (1) - 1 freq
huf (1) - 1 freq
sum (1) - 416 freq
hur (1) - 856 freq
huk (1) - 1 freq
dum (1) - 16 freq
rum (1) - 32 freq
hum (0) - 45 freq
hom (1) - 38 freq
hume (1) - 10 freq
him (1) - 8459 freq
ham (1) - 49 freq
hium (1) - 1 freq
hem (1) - 27 freq
hym (1) - 5 freq
hm (1) - 13 freq
yum (2) - 22 freq
hud (2) - 1321 freq
huz (2) - 22 freq
thum (2) - 463 freq
rhum (2) - 2 freq
huw (2) - 3 freq
hun (2) - 9 freq
tum (2) - 17 freq
hu (2) - 2 freq
'hum (2) - 2 freq
mum (2) - 181 freq
cum (2) - 643 freq
kum (2) - 8 freq
ahm (2) - 197 freq
homo (2) - 3 freq
oehum (2) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - H500
him - 8459 freq
haun - 931 freq
hame - 2346 freq
hen - 415 freq
haein - 661 freq
hinnie - 24 freq
hyne - 56 freq
hon - 11 freq
'him - 3 freq
hinna - 86 freq
haan - 95 freq
hmm - 22 freq
haen - 156 freq
hyne-awa - 5 freq
haena - 49 freq
hem - 27 freq
hame' - 6 freq
him-how - 1 freq
how'm - 4 freq
-how'm - 1 freq
hain - 63 freq
hum - 45 freq
han - 393 freq
hayin - 5 freq
hm - 13 freq
hawn - 33 freq
'hmm - 1 freq
home - 280 freq
hume - 10 freq
hime - 17 freq
'hum - 2 freq
hinny - 24 freq
ha''in - 1 freq
hymn - 17 freq
'hame - 2 freq
hinnae - 50 freq
hoyon - 1 freq
haim - 39 freq
'ham - 3 freq
heem - 17 freq
him' - 15 freq
han' - 24 freq
ham - 49 freq
haean - 12 freq
hannah - 10 freq
heaney - 4 freq
hin - 36 freq
hoyin - 5 freq
'hen' - 2 freq
hane - 4 freq
hun - 9 freq
haenae - 18 freq
hee'm - 1 freq
'home - 1 freq
hannie - 3 freq
hine - 26 freq
honey - 413 freq
haein' - 6 freq
henna - 7 freq
hayen - 13 freq
hein - 2 freq
heim - 2 freq
heen - 4 freq
hen' - 2 freq
haun' - 2 freq
hyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaawwwn - 1 freq
ha'en - 5 freq
'hmmm - 2 freq
haime - 26 freq
'hen - 4 freq
ha'in - 9 freq
hiein - 1 freq
hennae - 1 freq
hae'in - 6 freq
hawin - 2 freq
heehawin - 1 freq
hunny - 3 freq
hïm - 575 freq
heyin - 1 freq
hyowin - 2 freq
hmmmm - 4 freq
honou' - 1 freq
hae'n - 2 freq
hym - 5 freq
hom - 38 freq
hoween - 1 freq
home' - 2 freq
hann - 23 freq
hummy - 1 freq
hae-in - 1 freq
haem - 53 freq
hemme - 2 freq
'home' - 1 freq
hæm - 2 freq
howan - 1 freq
hewn - 2 freq
hawaiian - 1 freq
hoam - 4 freq
hahn - 2 freq
heine - 3 freq
hyena - 4 freq
hyneawa - 2 freq
'haein - 1 freq
homo - 3 freq
'hame' - 3 freq
haenna - 3 freq
€˜haem - 1 freq
höm - 1 freq
houane - 5 freq
€˜hmm - 3 freq
haimm - 1 freq
hemmi - 1 freq
hanna - 11 freq
hannaa - 1 freq
hinney - 6 freq
hium - 1 freq
hyne-awaw - 1 freq
hayme - 1 freq
hine-awa - 1 freq
hame- - 1 freq
henny - 10 freq
€œhenny - 3 freq
hmi - 2 freq
himm - 1 freq
hammy - 7 freq
him--- - 1 freq
howein - 1 freq
€˜hmi - 1 freq
haun- - 1 freq
hennie - 6 freq
€œhemm - 1 freq
hemm - 12 freq
hima - 4 freq
€œhmm - 1 freq
€œhoney - 1 freq
€˜hame - 1 freq
€œhomo - 1 freq
ha'ein - 1 freq
€™hm - 1 freq
hny - 1 freq
haÂ’en - 1 freq
hn - 3 freq
heni - 2 freq
hwn - 1 freq
hanoi - 1 freq
haain - 1 freq
hina - 2 freq
hameÂ’ - 1 freq
hmmm - 7 freq
hanÂ’ - 2 freq
haÂ’in - 2 freq
heain' - 1 freq
hinn - 1 freq
hmo - 1 freq
hen” - 1 freq
hauna - 5 freq
hame” - 2 freq
“hame - 1 freq
‘hen’ - 2 freq
hunni - 5 freq
hamm - 1 freq
hyme - 6 freq
“home - 1 freq
“hyme - 1 freq
hyme” - 1 freq
hawn' - 2 freq
hanny - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - HM
him - 8459 freq
hame - 2346 freq
'him - 3 freq
hem - 27 freq
hame' - 6 freq
how'm - 4 freq
-how'm - 1 freq
hum - 45 freq
home - 280 freq
hume - 10 freq
hime - 17 freq
'hum - 2 freq
'hame - 2 freq
haim - 39 freq
'ham - 3 freq
heem - 17 freq
him' - 15 freq
ham - 49 freq
hee'm - 1 freq
'home - 1 freq
heim - 2 freq
haime - 26 freq
hom - 38 freq
home' - 2 freq
hummy - 1 freq
haem - 53 freq
hemme - 2 freq
'home' - 1 freq
hoam - 4 freq
homo - 3 freq
'hame' - 3 freq
€˜haem - 1 freq
haimm - 1 freq
hemmi - 1 freq
hium - 1 freq
hayme - 1 freq
hame- - 1 freq
humbie - 1 freq
himm - 1 freq
hammy - 7 freq
him--- - 1 freq
€œhemm - 1 freq
hemm - 12 freq
hima - 4 freq
€˜hame - 1 freq
€œhomo - 1 freq
hameÂ’ - 1 freq
hame” - 2 freq
“hame - 1 freq
hamm - 1 freq
“home - 1 freq
HUM
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.171269 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 - 0.313738 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 - 0.027904 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 - 0.036757 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 - 0.000946 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.