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Similar words to cossack in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
cossack (0) - 8 freq
clossach (2) - 1 freq
gossock (2) - 1 freq
poosack (2) - 3 freq
cormack (2) - 5 freq
contack (2) - 37 freq
costa (3) - 7 freq
cossye (3) - 1 freq
stack (3) - 50 freq
cessnock (3) - 8 freq
corpach (3) - 1 freq
coach (3) - 51 freq
kessock (3) - 1 freq
consate (3) - 4 freq
corsa (3) - 1 freq
€˜smack (3) - 1 freq
slack (3) - 27 freq
conract (3) - 1 freq
cack (3) - 4 freq
cashback (3) - 1 freq
domjack (3) - 1 freq
hoswick (3) - 1 freq
conduck (3) - 4 freq
chack (3) - 8 freq
coigach (3) - 1 freq
cossack (0) - 8 freq
gossock (3) - 1 freq
lassock (4) - 2 freq
kessock (4) - 1 freq
tussock (4) - 3 freq
cessnock (4) - 8 freq
contack (4) - 37 freq
clossach (4) - 1 freq
cormack (4) - 5 freq
poosack (4) - 3 freq
convick (5) - 5 freq
conneck (5) - 3 freq
clack (5) - 9 freq
cock (5) - 79 freq
comeback (5) - 7 freq
spack (5) - 7 freq
cloack (5) - 20 freq
castback (5) - 1 freq
cosset (5) - 1 freq
swack (5) - 20 freq
crack (5) - 345 freq
soack (5) - 1 freq
shack (5) - 3 freq
snack (5) - 7 freq
carsackie (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - C220
chuckies - 25 freq
cakes - 54 freq
coaches - 9 freq
chices - 1 freq
causeys - 4 freq
écossais - 1 freq
cases - 54 freq
cassie's - 2 freq
chookies - 19 freq
coughs - 6 freq
chyces - 15 freq
cheques - 13 freq
causies - 6 freq
chicago - 3 freq
cages - 8 freq
coggies - 1 freq
choices - 26 freq
cuckoo's - 2 freq
chookie's - 10 freq
caises - 2 freq
cokes - 2 freq
causes - 23 freq
chooses - 7 freq
ciggies - 2 freq
cheeses - 1 freq
cossack - 8 freq
chazza's - 1 freq
cozzies - 1 freq
cookies - 10 freq
ca'ses - 1 freq
chases - 7 freq
choises - 1 freq
casses - 1 freq
'chookies - 1 freq
'chook-chook - 1 freq
chasies - 1 freq
cowshus - 5 freq
chookies' - 1 freq
cassies - 6 freq
caases - 3 freq
chassis - 4 freq
chuckie's - 1 freq
chiesis - 1 freq
chicawgie - 2 freq
coo-cake - 1 freq
cochise - 5 freq
caesses - 2 freq
causays - 1 freq
chokes - 2 freq
coach's - 1 freq
€˜chiesis - 1 freq
chukkies - 2 freq
coke's - 1 freq
chyges - 2 freq
cokkis - 1 freq
cakies - 1 freq
couscous - 2 freq
coshes - 1 freq
couches - 2 freq
Écossaise - 1 freq
choukies - 2 freq
cosies - 1 freq
cocoaooze - 1 freq
cascasg - 1 freq
coigach - 1 freq
chachacha - 1 freq
czechs - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KSK
gossock - 1 freq
cuzco - 1 freq
gask - 2 freq
cossack - 8 freq
cask - 2 freq
caskie - 4 freq
kiosk - 3 freq
kuzyk - 1 freq
kessock - 1 freq
qscwy - 1 freq
ksc - 1 freq
ksac - 1 freq
csco - 1 freq
casc - 1 freq
COSSACK
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.287711 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 - 0.770846 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 - 0.078619 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 - 0.038049 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 - 0.000848 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.