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Similar words to forty-wan in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
forty-wan (0) - 1 freq
forty-twae (2) - 2 freq
forty-twa (2) - 2 freq
forty-nine (3) - 1 freq
fortean (3) - 5 freq
forty-two (3) - 4 freq
forty-six (3) - 1 freq
dorty-wye (3) - 1 freq
forty-odd (3) - 1 freq
forty-four (4) - 1 freq
worryan (4) - 1 freq
hard-wan (4) - 1 freq
forgan (4) - 3 freq
forewarn (4) - 1 freq
twenty-wan (4) - 5 freq
forran (4) - 1 freq
fortoun (4) - 1 freq
ferryman (4) - 3 freq
footan (4) - 1 freq
onywan (4) - 19 freq
forgya (4) - 2 freq
fortun (4) - 5 freq
forfochan (4) - 5 freq
fortyfive (4) - 2 freq
fortuin (4) - 3 freq
forty-wan (0) - 1 freq
forty-nine (4) - 1 freq
forty-twa (4) - 2 freq
forty-twae (4) - 2 freq
port-wine (5) - 1 freq
dorty-wye (5) - 1 freq
forty-odd (5) - 1 freq
fortean (5) - 5 freq
forty-six (5) - 1 freq
forty-two (5) - 4 freq
fortun (6) - 5 freq
fortynine (6) - 1 freq
fortuin (6) - 3 freq
forteen (6) - 3 freq
for-why (6) - 1 freq
fore-en (6) - 2 freq
far-han (6) - 2 freq
fortoun (6) - 1 freq
forty-fower (6) - 6 freq
hard-wan (6) - 1 freq
forty-five (6) - 2 freq
fortin (6) - 1 freq
forty-four (6) - 1 freq
fore-a-haun (7) - 1 freq
foryatten (7) - 5 freq
SoundEx code - F635
fourteenth - 6 freq
freedom's - 3 freq
feartiness - 1 freq
fortnight - 17 freq
fortune - 87 freq
fourteen - 47 freq
freedom - 111 freq
fortnicht - 24 freq
fire-tongs - 1 freq
fortun's - 1 freq
furtunit - 1 freq
fortnat - 1 freq
fartin - 10 freq
fowreteen - 1 freq
fortunate - 9 freq
farden - 1 freq
fortnicht's - 2 freq
fortoun - 1 freq
fortuin - 3 freq
frothin - 3 freq
fortnecht - 1 freq
freedoms - 13 freq
free-thinkin - 1 freq
fowerteen - 46 freq
fortun - 5 freq
fartin' - 1 freq
foryatten - 5 freq
fortune' - 1 freq
fourteen-year-auld - 1 freq
frettin - 2 freq
furthieness - 1 freq
fortunately - 10 freq
fortynine - 1 freq
four-times - 1 freq
f-f-fourteen - 1 freq
freitin - 2 freq
fowerteen-ear-aul - 2 freq
fowrteenth - 1 freq
furtune - 1 freq
fowerteenth - 2 freq
ferdinand - 5 freq
fortunes - 7 freq
fourteen' - 1 freq
forty-wan - 1 freq
foartune - 1 freq
farthin - 5 freq
freedman's - 1 freq
'freedoms' - 1 freq
'fortunate' - 1 freq
fruition - 2 freq
fortin - 1 freq
forteent - 2 freq
'farton' - 1 freq
fourteen-inch - 1 freq
'fowerteen - 2 freq
friedome - 5 freq
fowerteen-year-aulds - 1 freq
fartin's - 1 freq
forteen - 3 freq
fertin - 1 freq
froadin - 1 freq
fair-daein - 1 freq
fredome - 1 freq
fire-aeting - 1 freq
fairdie-maet - 1 freq
freithin - 1 freq
freithin't - 1 freq
fordoun - 3 freq
fourdin - 1 freq
freedom-hunger - 1 freq
furthmair - 1 freq
fortunat - 1 freq
friedomes - 1 freq
fortean - 5 freq
fruit-maele - 1 freq
fardins - 1 freq
freudian - 1 freq
€œfreedom - 1 freq
€˜freedom - 1 freq
fowrteent - 1 freq
fowerteent - 2 freq
forthink - 1 freq
froathin - 1 freq
fardin - 1 freq
fortnight's - 1 freq
firritin - 1 freq
forty-nine - 1 freq
farting - 3 freq
fourdon - 1 freq
fredmacaulay - 5 freq
fairtin - 1 freq
forthemanynott - 3 freq
fairydeanrovers - 3 freq
fortnite - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - FRTWN
forty-wan - 1 freq
FORTY-WAN
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.192582 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 - 0.412314 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 - 0.030468 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 - 0.047610 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 - 0.001355 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.