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Similar words to kerrs in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
kerrs (0) - 9 freq
kerr's (1) - 1 freq
terrs (1) - 1 freq
kerds (1) - 1 freq
skerrs (1) - 2 freq
perrs (1) - 1 freq
kerr (1) - 31 freq
serrs (1) - 5 freq
kerbs (1) - 3 freq
errs (1) - 1 freq
kerry (1) - 47 freq
herrs (1) - 1 freq
kers (1) - 6 freq
skerry (2) - 7 freq
eirs (2) - 3 freq
keess (2) - 10 freq
eros (2) - 16 freq
meers (2) - 2 freq
derts (2) - 2 freq
yerbs (2) - 2 freq
erss (2) - 3 freq
yers (2) - 19 freq
kurds (2) - 1 freq
err's (2) - 1 freq
aerts (2) - 1 freq
kerrs (0) - 9 freq
errs (2) - 1 freq
kerbs (2) - 3 freq
herrs (2) - 1 freq
kers (2) - 6 freq
kerries (2) - 8 freq
serrs (2) - 5 freq
kerry (2) - 47 freq
kerr (2) - 31 freq
kerr's (2) - 1 freq
kerds (2) - 1 freq
skerrs (2) - 2 freq
terrs (2) - 1 freq
perrs (2) - 1 freq
garrs (3) - 2 freq
kirns (3) - 2 freq
rears (3) - 2 freq
purrs (3) - 3 freq
gurrs (3) - 1 freq
kris (3) - 1 freq
kirr (3) - 2 freq
airrs (3) - 2 freq
kirks (3) - 30 freq
burrs (3) - 2 freq
kerrie (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - K620
kirk - 528 freq
kirks - 30 freq
kirk's - 10 freq
kwerious - 8 freq
kirko - 2 freq
karaoke - 6 freq
kerries - 8 freq
kirky - 12 freq
korea's - 1 freq
kerrs - 9 freq
kers - 6 freq
krug - 1 freq
koors - 1 freq
kargo - 1 freq
keerious - 3 freq
kirk' - 1 freq
kerr's - 1 freq
'kireji' - 1 freq
€˜kirk - 2 freq
kris - 1 freq
kerouac - 1 freq
“kerouac” - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KRS
gress - 199 freq
coorse - 827 freq
course - 489 freq
grows - 40 freq
cries - 101 freq
grass - 101 freq
craws - 59 freq
gray's - 3 freq
cross - 244 freq
curious - 74 freq
croass - 8 freq
cares - 58 freq
cours - 1 freq
curse - 72 freq
gurrs - 1 freq
cairries - 36 freq
grace - 153 freq
cars - 91 freq
gairs - 1 freq
crouse - 32 freq
gaars - 1 freq
greece - 23 freq
cuirious - 3 freq
querious - 2 freq
crazy - 38 freq
graze - 9 freq
gressy - 15 freq
croose - 14 freq
craze - 6 freq
gracie - 21 freq
gaurs - 2 freq
caurs - 10 freq
corrie's - 2 freq
gars - 89 freq
greasy - 23 freq
caur's - 1 freq
coories - 5 freq
'cross - 4 freq
'course - 5 freq
coors - 4 freq
caress - 4 freq
curroos - 1 freq
craas - 6 freq
careous - 1 freq
queries - 1 freq
cairies - 4 freq
carse - 17 freq
greys - 5 freq
grouse - 29 freq
corries - 14 freq
curries - 7 freq
corse - 2 freq
grease - 12 freq
ycars - 1 freq
craw's - 5 freq
cures - 4 freq
gross - 6 freq
cros - 1 freq
hcro's - 1 freq
coarse - 67 freq
car's - 16 freq
goarse - 1 freq
cary's - 2 freq
gar's - 2 freq
grassy - 7 freq
crews - 4 freq
crows - 4 freq
gris - 1 freq
quires - 1 freq
quares - 1 freq
crusoe - 3 freq
carries - 10 freq
goers - 3 freq
carso - 1 freq
corss - 9 freq
'coorse - 14 freq
cora's - 3 freq
grees - 18 freq
cruise - 13 freq
crease - 3 freq
kerries - 8 freq
crehs - 1 freq
'grice' - 3 freq
grous - 2 freq
croas - 1 freq
criss - 5 freq
korea's - 1 freq
curios - 1 freq
gurs - 1 freq
craa's - 2 freq
cairres - 1 freq
cross' - 1 freq
currie's - 2 freq
gorse - 6 freq
gress' - 1 freq
garrs - 2 freq
craaws - 2 freq
currys - 1 freq
groose - 4 freq
grice - 38 freq
croy's - 2 freq
kerrs - 9 freq
croys - 1 freq
gairsay - 1 freq
'grace' - 1 freq
quarries - 4 freq
corry's - 1 freq
corrs - 2 freq
cores - 3 freq
gary's - 7 freq
kers - 6 freq
grouws - 1 freq
gorie's - 1 freq
caers - 1 freq
graws - 4 freq
'grees - 2 freq
croasss - 1 freq
crass - 4 freq
koors - 1 freq
quairs - 3 freq
grey's - 2 freq
cry's - 1 freq
keerious - 3 freq
crosshy - 1 freq
caress' - 1 freq
coars - 1 freq
cairrie's - 1 freq
greiss - 1 freq
kerr's - 1 freq
courries - 1 freq
gros - 8 freq
greesie - 1 freq
'curse - 1 freq
quarz - 2 freq
grays - 2 freq
courss - 2 freq
gruws - 2 freq
coorse' - 1 freq
quarry's - 4 freq
gryss - 3 freq
cuirs - 1 freq
grues - 1 freq
groce - 4 freq
grose - 1 freq
cruz - 1 freq
gruesie - 1 freq
€˜course - 1 freq
corsa - 1 freq
cawrs - 1 freq
€˜grossa - 2 freq
€œgrossa - 1 freq
€œcrazy - 1 freq
grasse - 1 freq
coires - 1 freq
cors - 1 freq
€œgracie - 1 freq
gryce - 1 freq
caries - 1 freq
carsie - 1 freq
cairious - 1 freq
crys - 1 freq
€œgrace - 2 freq
creus - 1 freq
grayÂ’s - 3 freq
ckeroos - 1 freq
carr's - 1 freq
craÂ’s - 1 freq
gras - 5 freq
carrie's - 1 freq
kris - 1 freq
caresÂ’ - 1 freq
KERRS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.199181 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 - 0.523362 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 - 0.027491 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 - 0.087135 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 - 0.000854 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.