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Similar words to craals in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
craals (0) - 1 freq
craas (1) - 6 freq
crawls (1) - 1 freq
craal (1) - 5 freq
craalt (1) - 3 freq
craaws (1) - 2 freq
craa's (1) - 2 freq
caals (1) - 2 freq
cranks (2) - 4 freq
cradle (2) - 23 freq
cranes (2) - 7 freq
raans (2) - 2 freq
crecls (2) - 1 freq
craves (2) - 3 freq
cragis (2) - 1 freq
crowls (2) - 1 freq
cram's (2) - 1 freq
canals (2) - 3 freq
crab's (2) - 1 freq
craiks (2) - 2 freq
trawls (2) - 2 freq
caa's (2) - 1 freq
crates (2) - 6 freq
trails (2) - 13 freq
caalt (2) - 24 freq
craals (0) - 1 freq
caals (2) - 2 freq
creils (2) - 1 freq
craalies (2) - 3 freq
creels (2) - 24 freq
craa's (2) - 2 freq
cereals (2) - 2 freq
craal (2) - 5 freq
craaws (2) - 2 freq
crawls (2) - 1 freq
craas (2) - 6 freq
craalt (2) - 3 freq
caalls (3) - 1 freq
cracs (3) - 1 freq
crags (3) - 6 freq
calls (3) - 31 freq
croas (3) - 1 freq
cauls (3) - 1 freq
crytals (3) - 1 freq
craks (3) - 1 freq
croass (3) - 8 freq
crans (3) - 1 freq
craws (3) - 59 freq
trials (3) - 18 freq
carols (3) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - C642
carelessly - 7 freq
careless - 10 freq
curls - 36 freq
charles - 51 freq
carroll's - 1 freq
curlicue - 1 freq
carlisle - 4 freq
creels - 24 freq
carlsberg - 3 freq
carlie's - 1 freq
cherlie's - 6 freq
charlestoun - 1 freq
cyrillic - 1 freq
carlo's - 2 freq
charlie's - 9 freq
chairles - 16 freq
chairles's - 1 freq
carles - 6 freq
creel's - 3 freq
carlos - 3 freq
carelessness - 3 freq
curlicues - 2 freq
chairlies - 1 freq
charleston - 2 freq
charolais - 1 freq
chairlie's - 21 freq
'chairlie's - 1 freq
curlew's - 1 freq
crowls - 1 freq
charles's - 1 freq
crulged - 5 freq
creel-chair - 1 freq
carl's - 1 freq
crewless - 1 freq
crallowsha - 1 freq
crawls - 1 freq
craals - 1 freq
cruellest - 2 freq
chirls - 2 freq
carlochy - 1 freq
crulge - 1 freq
carols - 3 freq
corrlichie - 2 freq
creils - 1 freq
cròileagain - 1 freq
crawlies - 1 freq
cereals - 2 freq
carluke - 2 freq
crulgit - 2 freq
craalies - 3 freq
carlyeaston - 1 freq
charliechock - 1 freq
carrolls - 1 freq
corralejo - 1 freq
curlysoo - 1 freq
carl’s - 1 freq
carlgo - 1 freq
curlewsincrisis - 1 freq
carolst - 1 freq
curlews - 1 freq
cgrlwxecju - 1 freq
carolecadwalla - 1 freq
charlesponzi - 6 freq
charliegracie - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - KRLS
careless - 10 freq
curls - 36 freq
carroll's - 1 freq
growls - 14 freq
gurls - 1 freq
creels - 24 freq
carlie's - 1 freq
carlo's - 2 freq
carles - 6 freq
creel's - 3 freq
grilsie - 1 freq
carlos - 3 freq
gorilla's - 1 freq
gorillas - 2 freq
curlew's - 1 freq
crowls - 1 freq
carl's - 1 freq
kerless - 1 freq
crewless - 1 freq
crawls - 1 freq
craals - 1 freq
carols - 3 freq
quarrels - 1 freq
creils - 1 freq
crawlies - 1 freq
garrulous - 1 freq
grals - 1 freq
craalies - 3 freq
karla’s - 1 freq
carrolls - 1 freq
curlysoo - 1 freq
carl’s - 1 freq
curlews - 1 freq
CRAALS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.200608 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 - 0.344384 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 - 0.027527 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 - 0.038133 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 - 0.000847 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.