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Similar words to caircass in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
caircass (0) - 1 freq
carcass (1) - 9 freq
carcase (2) - 1 freq
nairaes (3) - 1 freq
acrass (3) - 1 freq
sairless (3) - 1 freq
airless (3) - 1 freq
marcas (3) - 3 freq
croass (3) - 8 freq
sairness (3) - 8 freq
faircest (3) - 1 freq
circus (3) - 32 freq
caithess (3) - 1 freq
cairrage (3) - 3 freq
cairt's (3) - 1 freq
cairties (3) - 1 freq
aroass (3) - 1 freq
sarcasms (3) - 1 freq
cairts (3) - 32 freq
cairiage (3) - 1 freq
cairds- (3) - 1 freq
cairns (3) - 13 freq
lairless (3) - 1 freq
airways (3) - 3 freq
cairrages (3) - 1 freq
caircass (0) - 1 freq
carcass (1) - 9 freq
circassia (3) - 1 freq
carcase (3) - 1 freq
circuses (3) - 1 freq
acroass (4) - 104 freq
caress (4) - 4 freq
carcages (4) - 2 freq
carcasses (4) - 4 freq
caucasus (4) - 1 freq
circles (4) - 34 freq
crass (4) - 4 freq
acrass (4) - 1 freq
circus (4) - 32 freq
croass (4) - 8 freq
haircuts (5) - 2 freq
mairchis (5) - 1 freq
circa (5) - 7 freq
cairters (5) - 1 freq
aircs (5) - 1 freq
cairds (5) - 88 freq
hairless (5) - 2 freq
staircases (5) - 2 freq
cairious (5) - 1 freq
paircels (5) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - C622
charges - 15 freq
cross-examine - 10 freq
crossexaminin - 1 freq
coorsest - 3 freq
crush-curvin - 1 freq
carsackie - 1 freq
caresses - 3 freq
corses - 1 freq
cargos - 1 freq
circus - 32 freq
course-'gin - 1 freq
cruises - 5 freq
carcass - 9 freq
crisis - 29 freq
choruses - 9 freq
crosses - 11 freq
crashes - 7 freq
crocuses - 2 freq
cuirasses - 1 freq
cruisies - 9 freq
corkey's - 1 freq
cairriages - 4 freq
craigy's - 4 freq
crisis' - 1 freq
coorses - 16 freq
cargoes - 2 freq
courageous - 3 freq
curses - 8 freq
courses - 13 freq
corsican - 4 freq
craigie's - 1 freq
chairges - 11 freq
craigies - 3 freq
cairrages - 1 freq
créches - 1 freq
churches' - 1 freq
crises - 1 freq
cross-examines - 1 freq
cross-checkit - 1 freq
chrisses - 6 freq
circuses - 1 freq
creches - 1 freq
carriages - 1 freq
churches - 12 freq
circassia - 1 freq
circassian - 3 freq
chrissie's - 1 freq
carcasses - 4 freq
coorse-kind - 1 freq
carcassonne - 1 freq
caircass - 1 freq
carcase - 1 freq
crouches - 2 freq
crocus - 5 freq
cragis - 1 freq
creases - 1 freq
crushes - 1 freq
croesus - 1 freq
cherges - 2 freq
creshes - 1 freq
craighouse - 1 freq
carcages - 2 freq
crqwwj - 1 freq
craigakconnolly - 1 freq
creakyjoints - 1 freq
craigyc - 2 freq
crossways - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KRKS
kirks - 30 freq
craigs - 24 freq
kirk's - 10 freq
cargos - 1 freq
cracks - 39 freq
crocks - 5 freq
creaks - 6 freq
carcass - 9 freq
crux - 5 freq
crags - 6 freq
cruiks - 1 freq
carxe - 1 freq
craiks - 2 freq
gruaig's - 1 freq
corkey's - 1 freq
craig's - 18 freq
creeks - 3 freq
quirks - 4 freq
crooks - 2 freq
cargoes - 2 freq
crack's - 1 freq
crogs - 1 freq
greeks - 9 freq
crics - 1 freq
greiks - 2 freq
greggs - 14 freq
grigg's - 1 freq
croix - 1 freq
caircass - 1 freq
grugous - 2 freq
carcase - 1 freq
craks - 1 freq
cracs - 1 freq
crocus - 5 freq
gregs - 1 freq
qrx - 1 freq
qurxw - 1 freq
CAIRCASS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.230848 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 - 0.708203 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 - 0.087336 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 - 0.097031 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 - 0.001022 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.