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Similar words to curns in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
curns (0) - 127 freq
curn' (1) - 6 freq
murns (1) - 1 freq
curn (1) - 154 freq
curls (1) - 36 freq
urns (1) - 2 freq
curds (1) - 3 freq
corns (1) - 1 freq
cuns (1) - 1 freq
gurns (1) - 2 freq
burns (1) - 359 freq
churns (1) - 4 freq
curn's (1) - 1 freq
cures (1) - 4 freq
curnt (1) - 1 freq
turns (1) - 354 freq
burns' (2) - 18 freq
birns (2) - 3 freq
cuin (2) - 8 freq
cura (2) - 1 freq
kurds (2) - 1 freq
corss (2) - 9 freq
larns (2) - 1 freq
horns (2) - 42 freq
wurna (2) - 2 freq
curns (0) - 127 freq
corns (1) - 1 freq
curnt (2) - 1 freq
cures (2) - 4 freq
curn's (2) - 1 freq
cornis (2) - 1 freq
cornes (2) - 1 freq
crans (2) - 1 freq
cairns (2) - 13 freq
acorns (2) - 1 freq
churns (2) - 4 freq
turns (2) - 354 freq
burns (2) - 359 freq
curn (2) - 154 freq
murns (2) - 1 freq
curn' (2) - 6 freq
urns (2) - 2 freq
curls (2) - 36 freq
curds (2) - 3 freq
cuns (2) - 1 freq
gurns (2) - 2 freq
turnis (3) - 6 freq
currans (3) - 1 freq
farns (3) - 2 freq
rns (3) - 5 freq
SoundEx code - C652
cronies - 40 freq
crammassy - 1 freq
crying - 16 freq
carnage - 15 freq
crunchin - 10 freq
crunches - 3 freq
crunch - 18 freq
crummock - 4 freq
crums - 1 freq
cramasie - 1 freq
crannies - 4 freq
creenged - 2 freq
cairngorm - 6 freq
corrieneuchin - 7 freq
croons - 13 freq
carnegie's - 2 freq
carnegie - 8 freq
crinched - 3 freq
currency - 16 freq
cherms - 1 freq
coronach - 4 freq
crunkled - 1 freq
crinklet - 1 freq
crimson - 16 freq
crimes - 14 freq
cornucopia - 1 freq
crinkled - 3 freq
crank - 7 freq
curns - 127 freq
cringe - 33 freq
creams - 8 freq
cairngill - 1 freq
corncrakes - 1 freq
crankums - 1 freq
charms - 8 freq
cairngorms - 6 freq
chronicles - 9 freq
chronicle - 15 freq
crinklit - 1 freq
chirms - 2 freq
crammasie - 3 freq
crunk - 5 freq
crunker - 1 freq
crunkin - 1 freq
cranny's - 1 freq
chronic - 6 freq
cranked - 1 freq
cranks - 4 freq
crummies - 1 freq
cairnsmore - 2 freq
'crammasy' - 1 freq
carmichael - 2 freq
carmichael's - 3 freq
carmichaels - 1 freq
cairns - 13 freq
cringin - 3 freq
crunkit - 3 freq
crunched - 3 freq
cronies' - 1 freq
carron's - 1 freq
cranes - 7 freq
corns - 1 freq
carnegies - 1 freq
cranshed - 1 freq
cram's - 1 freq
creamy-coloured - 2 freq
creamiest - 1 freq
cramassie-coloured - 1 freq
cairry-ons - 1 freq
churns - 4 freq
cringes - 1 freq
cramsh'' - 1 freq
chronos' - 1 freq
charon's - 3 freq
ceramic - 2 freq
currans - 1 freq
crang - 2 freq
crammicks - 1 freq
creenge - 19 freq
crayons - 4 freq
curn's - 1 freq
cramshin - 1 freq
craunch - 1 freq
crannog - 2 freq
crummocks - 1 freq
crankin - 2 freq
cairry-oan's - 1 freq
crunchy - 4 freq
crunchan - 1 freq
carry-ons - 1 freq
cranachan - 3 freq
carnies - 2 freq
coherence - 2 freq
cairnsmill - 9 freq
cornceres - 1 freq
cringed - 2 freq
carnoustie - 1 freq
corn-stooks - 1 freq
crinchin - 1 freq
cranns - 1 freq
cramson-faced - 1 freq
crymes - 1 freq
cramson - 2 freq
crams - 2 freq
cornish - 48 freq
cramassie - 1 freq
crannogs - 1 freq
cheerieness - 1 freq
crinkelt - 1 freq
crinkles - 1 freq
chronos - 1 freq
cronus - 1 freq
carynx - 1 freq
crinklin - 1 freq
creinge - 3 freq
corynoch - 1 freq
crunklin - 2 freq
cronykil - 2 freq
crankery - 1 freq
cairrying - 3 freq
chairms - 1 freq
crinch - 1 freq
€œcarrying - 2 freq
carngranny - 2 freq
cornes - 1 freq
corneas - 1 freq
crankum - 1 freq
crans - 1 freq
crannachan - 4 freq
crunkles - 1 freq
crouns - 4 freq
cornis - 1 freq
crowns - 2 freq
cormack - 5 freq
caring - 5 freq
cairnies - 1 freq
cringers - 2 freq
cringewirthy - 1 freq
carmichaelus - 1 freq
cornicin - 1 freq
croneus's - 1 freq
corncrake - 2 freq
crunkelt - 1 freq
chirring - 2 freq
crynes - 1 freq
€œcrunchie - 1 freq
crummoch - 1 freq
cramasay - 1 freq
cheeriness - 1 freq
carrying - 2 freq
crankit - 1 freq
currencies - 1 freq
creenges - 1 freq
cranachan's - 1 freq
cran-cran - 1 freq
creengin-crabbit - 1 freq
€˜creengin-crabbit - 1 freq
churnstaffs - 1 freq
cairnstoon - 2 freq
cream's - 1 freq
cormackdavie - 6 freq
ciaranmacairt - 7 freq
ciaranmcmenamin - 1 freq
carnesure - 1 freq
crunks - 1 freq
cheering - 2 freq
ciaranxyz - 1 freq
cranachanbooks - 4 freq
carmichaelmovies - 1 freq
ciaranastewart - 1 freq
carmic - 2 freq
carnock - 1 freq
cromecast - 1 freq
cranky - 1 freq
“charnock” - 1 freq
cornishnews - 1 freq
cringing - 1 freq
cringeworthy - 1 freq
carn-swallae - 1 freq
caramac - 1 freq
chroniclelive - 1 freq
carryonkeith - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KRNS
greyness - 5 freq
cronies - 40 freq
grins - 19 freq
grans - 2 freq
green's - 1 freq
gran's - 11 freq
crannies - 4 freq
croons - 13 freq
currency - 16 freq
greens - 55 freq
greeance - 18 freq
groans - 6 freq
grunny's - 6 freq
grunnie's - 2 freq
curns - 127 freq
grannies - 20 freq
granny's - 53 freq
grains - 11 freq
grannie's - 31 freq
grun's - 3 freq
cranny's - 1 freq
koreans - 1 freq
cairns - 13 freq
cronies' - 1 freq
carron's - 1 freq
cranes - 7 freq
karen's - 9 freq
corns - 1 freq
gurns - 2 freq
quirinius - 2 freq
kirns - 2 freq
cairry-ons - 1 freq
grunnies - 4 freq
greenness - 3 freq
currans - 1 freq
garrins - 1 freq
garnsey - 1 freq
curn's - 1 freq
cairry-oan's - 1 freq
carry-ons - 1 freq
carnies - 2 freq
granes - 1 freq
cranns - 1 freq
griens - 1 freq
cronus - 1 freq
gruns - 7 freq
cornes - 1 freq
kieran's - 1 freq
corneas - 1 freq
crans - 1 freq
crouns - 4 freq
cornis - 1 freq
crowns - 2 freq
cairnies - 1 freq
crynes - 1 freq
greins - 1 freq
grannys' - 1 freq
grunies - 1 freq
grunnieÂ’s - 1 freq
grannies' - 1 freq
CURNS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.210642 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 - 0.345529 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 - 0.027784 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 - 0.037431 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 - 0.000843 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.