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Similar words to boughs in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
boughs (0) - 7 freq
bought (1) - 80 freq
coughs (1) - 6 freq
bough (1) - 5 freq
loghs (2) - 1 freq
broghs (2) - 1 freq
banghs (2) - 1 freq
bouts (2) - 2 freq
tough (2) - 38 freq
mouths (2) - 7 freq
saughs (2) - 1 freq
rough (2) - 48 freq
bouns (2) - 1 freq
bug's (2) - 1 freq
doug's (2) - 10 freq
dough (2) - 18 freq
tought (2) - 3 freq
souchs (2) - 24 freq
fought (2) - 19 freq
bouks (2) - 8 freq
rought (2) - 1 freq
booths (2) - 5 freq
boght (2) - 2 freq
bourds (2) - 1 freq
gouges (2) - 1 freq
boughs (0) - 7 freq
coughs (2) - 6 freq
bough (2) - 5 freq
bought (2) - 80 freq
bugs (3) - 21 freq
bogus (3) - 3 freq
bogs (3) - 17 freq
boags (3) - 5 freq
boght (3) - 2 freq
bug's (3) - 1 freq
booths (3) - 5 freq
boag's (3) - 3 freq
bougies (3) - 1 freq
burghs (3) - 7 freq
banghs (3) - 1 freq
broghs (3) - 1 freq
loghs (3) - 1 freq
heughs (3) - 7 freq
haughs (3) - 8 freq
beuchs (3) - 4 freq
laughs (3) - 56 freq
saughs (3) - 1 freq
bags (4) - 111 freq
baags (4) - 2 freq
bigs (4) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - B220
beeches - 1 freq
baukies - 2 freq
because - 695 freq
'because - 42 freq
busses - 18 freq
beeswax - 5 freq
beuchs - 4 freq
baggage - 10 freq
beukcase - 1 freq
beseek - 1 freq
bookies - 25 freq
bushes - 41 freq
bookie's - 12 freq
buskis - 1 freq
begeck - 14 freq
buses - 45 freq
baggies - 7 freq
bessie's - 3 freq
basic - 47 freq
bakehoose - 1 freq
buckie's - 3 freq
bazooka - 2 freq
boxes - 63 freq
backies - 5 freq
becis - 40 freq
bosses - 9 freq
backweys - 1 freq
bikes - 31 freq
bosy's - 1 freq
basses - 2 freq
buises - 1 freq
beaches - 11 freq
boughs - 7 freq
beseiks - 1 freq
baggy's - 5 freq
becouse - 2 freq
bicuss - 1 freq
backswash - 1 freq
bacchus - 1 freq
boaxes - 4 freq
bahoukies - 1 freq
buses' - 1 freq
bakes - 16 freq
bak-waash - 1 freq
basis - 45 freq
bases - 6 freq
baecaas - 44 freq
boyzees - 1 freq
buggies - 3 freq
buckies - 11 freq
becas - 5 freq
''becas - 1 freq
becas' - 1 freq
backwyes - 1 freq
beeces - 1 freq
begowks - 1 freq
begowk - 2 freq
basics - 7 freq
bahoochies - 1 freq
bogies - 3 freq
bagwash - 2 freq
becaas - 9 freq
becase - 15 freq
beca'se - 1 freq
bosies - 18 freq
buzzes - 4 freq
bekis - 6 freq
boogie-woogie - 2 freq
backhoose - 2 freq
beciss - 1 freq
becaase - 6 freq
beseech - 2 freq
buke's - 2 freq
bookish - 1 freq
'becis - 2 freq
buikies - 3 freq
bogus - 3 freq
boxies - 4 freq
bacchic - 2 freq
beseik - 1 freq
bigake - 5 freq
backwyse - 1 freq
bakkies - 1 freq
boxie's - 1 freq
bykes - 1 freq
bougies - 1 freq
bakis - 1 freq
bikies - 1 freq
bukes - 1 freq
buikish - 1 freq
becise - 1 freq
€œbecause - 8 freq
basques - 1 freq
becus - 1 freq
biases - 1 freq
bawsacks - 2 freq
bashes - 1 freq
biggish - 2 freq
backsyke - 1 freq
bookcase - 2 freq
backwise - 1 freq
bussies - 1 freq
begecks - 1 freq
bekiss - 2 freq
bogeys - 1 freq
bakehous - 1 freq
biqyxh - 1 freq
bugsyÂ’s - 1 freq
bazuka - 1 freq
bigsesh - 1 freq
becky's - 1 freq
bahookies - 2 freq
bsauzee - 1 freq
bfbaguzqha - 1 freq
bxwojh - 1 freq
backake - 1 freq
bessieÂ’s - 1 freq
bawjaws - 3 freq
bsyz - 1 freq
bakesy - 1 freq
bizcocho - 1 freq
bjawk - 1 freq
becos - 1 freq
bigissue - 1 freq
bsuk - 3 freq
bigjock - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - BS
boays - 99 freq
bus - 350 freq
buys - 12 freq
busy - 230 freq
bees - 45 freq
bows - 11 freq
baws - 93 freq
buss - 34 freq
bis- - 1 freq
ba's - 9 freq
buzz - 20 freq
boys' - 8 freq
booze - 32 freq
boay's - 12 freq
'boays - 2 freq
boss - 93 freq
boy's - 48 freq
boas - 1 freq
bs - 6 freq
'bees - 1 freq
boiz - 6 freq
'boys - 1 freq
boys - 398 freq
bissy - 4 freq
beys - 1 freq
baas - 30 freq
bess - 35 freq
bess' - 1 freq
base - 39 freq
bessie - 63 freq
bas - 9 freq
beiss - 30 freq
bass - 28 freq
bausie - 2 freq
bosie - 60 freq
bis - 19 freq
bozy - 2 freq
bassey - 2 freq
bse - 4 freq
buoys - 3 freq
bays - 5 freq
baize - 2 freq
boughs - 7 freq
bee's - 7 freq
basso - 2 freq
bussie - 7 freq
booies - 1 freq
buissy - 1 freq
'boy's - 1 freq
bes - 315 freq
beas - 3 freq
bowsie - 8 freq
beese - 5 freq
beece - 8 freq
bias - 10 freq
bossy - 2 freq
bahz - 1 freq
baaz - 1 freq
baes - 17 freq
biss - 2 freq
beuys - 7 freq
baez - 1 freq
bos - 3 freq
biz - 8 freq
bizz - 22 freq
boaz - 16 freq
baw's - 3 freq
bees' - 2 freq
bizzie - 1 freq
'busy - 1 freq
bus' - 1 freq
'bus' - 1 freq
biess - 1 freq
bies - 2 freq
bese - 2 freq
bosy - 3 freq
boz - 2 freq
boozy - 4 freq
busie - 1 freq
bes' - 16 freq
bowsey - 1 freq
boies - 1 freq
bous - 3 freq
baa's - 1 freq
bausy - 1 freq
baess - 3 freq
bce - 3 freq
bauss - 1 freq
bizzy - 4 freq
€˜boys - 1 freq
boece - 4 freq
bizy - 1 freq
beisie - 3 freq
boos - 3 freq
bace - 1 freq
bozie - 1 freq
€œbase - 1 freq
€˜boss - 1 freq
€œbuzz - 1 freq
bowsy - 1 freq
bose - 19 freq
boiys - 1 freq
baese - 1 freq
bease - 58 freq
boose - 2 freq
€œbease - 1 freq
€˜bease - 4 freq
be's - 3 freq
bzyy - 1 freq
yhybys - 1 freq
bosey - 1 freq
boyz - 11 freq
'baas' - 1 freq
beez - 1 freq
bez - 1 freq
bza - 1 freq
bÂ’s - 1 freq
bzeww - 1 freq
boys” - 1 freq
bz - 2 freq
buzz' - 1 freq
ybees - 1 freq
ybius - 1 freq
bizzo - 4 freq
'busy' - 1 freq
bea's - 1 freq
bozo - 1 freq
hbbs - 1 freq
BOUGHS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.226534 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 - 0.531255 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 - 0.030123 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 - 0.087851 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 - 0.001178 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.