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Similar words to kills in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
kills (0) - 19 freq
kill (1) - 215 freq
tills (1) - 5 freq
wills (1) - 3 freq
ills (1) - 35 freq
gills (1) - 8 freq
killt (1) - 73 freq
kille (1) - 1 freq
kilts (1) - 15 freq
dills (1) - 1 freq
hills (1) - 242 freq
skills (1) - 59 freq
pills (1) - 16 freq
sills (1) - 1 freq
kilns (1) - 1 freq
rills (1) - 1 freq
fills (1) - 34 freq
bills (1) - 18 freq
killy (1) - 9 freq
mills (1) - 33 freq
kill- (1) - 3 freq
yills (1) - 2 freq
kill's (1) - 1 freq
kilos (1) - 1 freq
kells (1) - 7 freq
kills (0) - 19 freq
kells (1) - 7 freq
bills (2) - 18 freq
fills (2) - 34 freq
rills (2) - 1 freq
mills (2) - 33 freq
kilns (2) - 1 freq
yills (2) - 2 freq
kellas (2) - 2 freq
kilos (2) - 1 freq
kill's (2) - 1 freq
sills (2) - 1 freq
kill- (2) - 3 freq
killy (2) - 9 freq
ills (2) - 35 freq
kill (2) - 215 freq
wills (2) - 3 freq
pills (2) - 16 freq
tills (2) - 5 freq
killt (2) - 73 freq
gills (2) - 8 freq
kille (2) - 1 freq
skills (2) - 59 freq
dills (2) - 1 freq
hills (2) - 242 freq
SoundEx code - K420
keelies - 10 freq
kills - 19 freq
kill's - 1 freq
kells - 7 freq
kelso - 2 freq
keels - 4 freq
kyle's - 6 freq
kelly's - 4 freq
keyholes - 2 freq
kollie's - 1 freq
kells' - 1 freq
kelloggs - 1 freq
koalas - 1 freq
keillies - 1 freq
klaus - 243 freq
klaus's - 8 freq
klaus' - 1 freq
klæs - 1 freq
kloss - 4 freq
klegs - 1 freq
klaze - 1 freq
klaz - 1 freq
kailas - 1 freq
klux - 1 freq
kellas - 2 freq
kloss's - 2 freq
kyles - 3 freq
klach - 1 freq
klegg - 1 freq
klaize - 1 freq
kless - 1 freq
kles - 2 freq
klaes - 1 freq
klaas - 1 freq
kolkw - 1 freq
kelsi - 3 freq
kilos - 1 freq
kayleigh - 2 freq
kallax - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KLS
claes - 582 freq
gulls - 20 freq
gless - 392 freq
close - 492 freq
claws - 31 freq
cless - 116 freq
keelies - 10 freq
glesea - 2 freq
glass - 80 freq
kills - 19 freq
coils - 11 freq
gallus - 97 freq
clase - 7 freq
glazie - 5 freq
class - 426 freq
gloss - 7 freq
glows - 6 freq
calls - 31 freq
coals - 18 freq
glessie - 3 freq
claiss - 3 freq
cleys - 4 freq
glaizie - 5 freq
clyse - 10 freq
clues - 7 freq
gallows - 17 freq
cools - 6 freq
goals - 51 freq
claise - 11 freq
closs - 61 freq
gales - 12 freq
kill's - 1 freq
clos - 14 freq
kells - 7 freq
glessy - 1 freq
glossy - 12 freq
kelso - 2 freq
quills - 3 freq
glassy - 2 freq
glaiss - 62 freq
cloase - 2 freq
clossie - 1 freq
claosie - 1 freq
quells - 1 freq
claus - 17 freq
class' - 3 freq
goalie's - 2 freq
clais - 2 freq
clese - 1 freq
gull's - 1 freq
claas - 29 freq
keels - 4 freq
caalls - 1 freq
clause - 13 freq
classy - 3 freq
quail's - 2 freq
kyle's - 6 freq
kelly's - 4 freq
quails' - 1 freq
callous - 2 freq
gauls - 2 freq
kollie's - 1 freq
cauls - 1 freq
galleys - 3 freq
culls - 2 freq
coalesce - 4 freq
'coalesce - 1 freq
kells' - 1 freq
koalas - 1 freq
closey - 1 freq
claase - 1 freq
gaels - 17 freq
calais - 1 freq
keillies - 1 freq
klaus - 243 freq
klaus' - 1 freq
glas- - 1 freq
glaze - 3 freq
klæs - 1 freq
kloss - 4 freq
clews - 1 freq
clays - 2 freq
klaze - 1 freq
glasow - 1 freq
caals - 2 freq
klaz - 1 freq
quyhles - 9 freq
coalese - 1 freq
quyhle's - 1 freq
gullies - 3 freq
gloze - 1 freq
gowls - 2 freq
guiless - 1 freq
closse - 1 freq
kailas - 1 freq
galas - 1 freq
glase - 1 freq
closs' - 1 freq
gulsa - 1 freq
'close' - 1 freq
kellas - 2 freq
gallous - 1 freq
closie - 5 freq
gale's - 1 freq
coles - 4 freq
colls - 1 freq
gliss - 1 freq
culloes - 1 freq
gals - 2 freq
glaissy - 1 freq
callus - 1 freq
kyles - 3 freq
collie's - 1 freq
clouse - 1 freq
glaess - 1 freq
colas - 1 freq
clize - 2 freq
gallas - 1 freq
glassa - 1 freq
cuils - 1 freq
cloos - 1 freq
klaize - 1 freq
€œclaes - 1 freq
glais - 1 freq
collies - 1 freq
kless - 1 freq
kles - 2 freq
klaes - 1 freq
golaÂ’s - 1 freq
klaas - 1 freq
clouseau - 1 freq
colz - 10 freq
kelsi - 3 freq
glassÂ’ - 2 freq
claes' - 1 freq
clue's - 1 freq
quilse - 1 freq
guillys - 3 freq
glossay - 1 freq
clouise - 10 freq
kilos - 1 freq
gaelsÂ’ - 1 freq
KILLS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.216270 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 - 0.368382 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 - 0.028905 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 - 0.038684 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 - 0.001078 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.