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Similar words to wyr in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
wyr (0) - 5 freq
wyre (1) - 5 freq
wyo (1) - 1 freq
wye (1) - 1475 freq
qyr (1) - 1 freq
dyr (1) - 1 freq
pyr (1) - 1 freq
wyc (1) - 2 freq
wyt (1) - 2 freq
whyr (1) - 1 freq
wyn (1) - 1 freq
wy (1) - 11 freq
wyf (1) - 5 freq
wur (1) - 1618 freq
wkr (1) - 1 freq
wir (1) - 2249 freq
fyr (1) - 32 freq
wor (1) - 20 freq
yr (1) - 16 freq
ayr (1) - 71 freq
tyr (1) - 1 freq
wer (1) - 220 freq
war (1) - 1446 freq
wr (1) - 7 freq
wwn (2) - 1 freq
wyr (0) - 5 freq
wir (1) - 2249 freq
wer (1) - 220 freq
wr (1) - 7 freq
wur (1) - 1618 freq
war (1) - 1446 freq
wor (1) - 20 freq
wyre (1) - 5 freq
ware (2) - 27 freq
were (2) - 4095 freq
owir (2) - 7 freq
wure (2) - 5 freq
ower (2) - 6285 freq
weyer (2) - 1 freq
wri (2) - 1 freq
waar (2) - 70 freq
owur (2) - 1 freq
waer (2) - 2 freq
awayr (2) - 1 freq
wayry (2) - 1 freq
wuir (2) - 4 freq
wier (2) - 2 freq
wary (2) - 11 freq
ewer (2) - 2 freq
wiry (2) - 11 freq
SoundEx code - W600
whaur - 1972 freq
were - 4095 freq
we're - 736 freq
where - 739 freq
wir - 2249 freq
wore - 121 freq
whar - 382 freq
wear - 162 freq
weary - 60 freq
wee-er - 29 freq
wire - 62 freq
waur - 223 freq
weeer - 2 freq
weer - 68 freq
whirrr - 2 freq
war - 1446 freq
worry - 155 freq
wur - 1618 freq
who're - 5 freq
ware - 27 freq
'whaur - 24 freq
whaar - 180 freq
wurr - 27 freq
'where - 15 freq
'we're - 35 freq
weir - 139 freq
wer - 220 freq
'were - 4 freq
whirwey - 1 freq
wure - 5 freq
wry - 12 freq
whaur- - 2 freq
wuir - 4 freq
waar - 70 freq
we'r - 42 freq
weeir - 3 freq
'w'ur - 1 freq
wi're - 22 freq
whair - 12 freq
wyre - 5 freq
wary - 11 freq
wirry - 26 freq
warie - 1 freq
w'e're - 1 freq
whor - 1 freq
'wur - 3 freq
wor - 20 freq
wearie - 10 freq
whure - 1 freq
wi'r - 13 freq
wr - 7 freq
weyer - 1 freq
whore' - 1 freq
wha're - 4 freq
wuuur - 1 freq
wheeeere - 1 freq
wherr - 9 freq
wa'er - 4 freq
wiry - 11 freq
whur - 63 freq
whara - 1 freq
wiher - 1 freq
wi'yer - 1 freq
whir - 11 freq
waury - 1 freq
whar'r - 1 freq
wireoa - 1 freq
wee'er - 8 freq
weear - 1 freq
where- - 2 freq
wurry - 3 freq
waer - 2 freq
wae'r - 2 freq
wery - 1 freq
wooer - 3 freq
worrie - 3 freq
'we'r - 1 freq
whoor - 2 freq
'wir - 7 freq
wheer - 20 freq
werr - 5 freq
'whaar - 1 freq
'whar - 1 freq
wurhae - 1 freq
waary - 1 freq
wri - 1 freq
wor' - 2 freq
wi'oor - 1 freq
whirr - 4 freq
whare - 19 freq
wier - 2 freq
wöre - 1 freq
whurr - 6 freq
wair - 6 freq
w'ir - 17 freq
'weary' - 1 freq
'-where' - 1 freq
'were' - 1 freq
wye-are - 1 freq
wha'r - 2 freq
'waur - 1 freq
where - 15 freq
wör - 2 freq
whe'er - 1 freq
where - 3 freq
whaur - 15 freq
wirey - 1 freq
wirrie - 6 freq
weire - 1 freq
wee'r - 4 freq
wayry - 1 freq
war - 1 freq
whaure - 2 freq
war - 1 freq
wur - 1 freq
whar - 1 freq
whaur - 2 freq
where - 2 freq
whar - 3 freq
we're - 4 freq
were - 1 freq
wyr - 5 freq
whyr - 1 freq
whire - 1 freq
whore - 1 freq
wir - 4 freq
wher - 6 freq
wahr - 1 freq
we’re - 32 freq
whar' - 1 freq
‘where - 1 freq
wa’ar - 3 freq
wirh - 1 freq
“were - 1 freq
werra - 1 freq
“wear - 1 freq
worry” - 1 freq
we’r - 1 freq
“where - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - R
ray - 17 freq
raw - 135 freq
row - 104 freq
r - 447 freq
rey - 12 freq
rae - 13 freq
re - 48 freq
wry - 12 freq
y'are - 3 freq
rue - 19 freq
ra - 12 freq
'w'ur - 1 freq
raa - 38 freq
ri - 117 freq
roy - 54 freq
riew - 1 freq
wyre - 5 freq
w'e're - 1 freq
ree - 7 freq
wr - 7 freq
ry - 7 freq
rih - 1 freq
reei - 1 freq
rah - 5 freq
rea - 1 freq
're - 4 freq
reu - 3 freq
hrh - 1 freq
r - 1 freq
roi' - 1 freq
y'ir - 9 freq
roo - 79 freq
'roo - 1 freq
wri - 1 freq
wöre - 1 freq
ær - 5 freq
rre - 1 freq
w'ir - 17 freq
r - 7 freq
r - 2 freq
ri - 1 freq
ru - 1 freq
r - 2 freq
r - 1 freq
r - 2 freq
rieu - 1 freq
r - 1 freq
- 1 freq
re - 660 freq
'r' - 1 freq
r - 277 freq
wör - 2 freq
re - 2 freq
ry - 4 freq
úr - 2 freq
--r - 1 freq
rie - 1 freq
roe - 15 freq
rio - 5 freq
raw - 1 freq
ár - 1 freq
hr - 11 freq
ör - 1 freq
yr - 16 freq
rw - 33 freq
r - 6 freq
Ùr - 1 freq
wyr - 5 freq
r - 2 freq
år - 2 freq
ra - 1 freq
'r - 1 freq
roi - 1 freq
ro - 5 freq
yry - 1 freq
ria - 1 freq
rua - 3 freq
reuu - 1 freq
ùr - 1 freq
rr - 1 freq
yrw - 1 freq
rh - 1 freq
WYR
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.222932 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 - 0.417092 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 - 0.036261 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 - 0.039870 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 - 0.000937 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.