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Similar words to moles in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
moles (0) - 2 freq
coles (1) - 4 freq
voles (1) - 2 freq
boles (1) - 1 freq
mores (1) - 1 freq
myles (1) - 4 freq
roles (1) - 12 freq
moves (1) - 32 freq
holes (1) - 73 freq
mules (1) - 1 freq
moses (1) - 68 freq
males (1) - 10 freq
soles (1) - 17 freq
yoles (1) - 9 freq
miles (1) - 173 freq
motes (1) - 3 freq
modes (1) - 2 freq
doles (1) - 1 freq
mole (1) - 11 freq
moyes (1) - 10 freq
poles (1) - 30 freq
mooed (2) - 2 freq
soley (2) - 2 freq
fores (2) - 1 freq
vols (2) - 1 freq
moles (0) - 2 freq
myles (1) - 4 freq
miles (1) - 173 freq
males (1) - 10 freq
mules (1) - 1 freq
doles (2) - 1 freq
modes (2) - 2 freq
motes (2) - 3 freq
poles (2) - 30 freq
mouls (2) - 6 freq
moilies (2) - 1 freq
mls (2) - 2 freq
moyes (2) - 10 freq
mole (2) - 11 freq
mools (2) - 11 freq
mores (2) - 1 freq
voles (2) - 2 freq
yoles (2) - 9 freq
coles (2) - 4 freq
roles (2) - 12 freq
boles (2) - 1 freq
soles (2) - 17 freq
moses (2) - 68 freq
holes (2) - 73 freq
moves (2) - 32 freq
SoundEx code - M420
milk - 244 freq
miles - 173 freq
meals - 39 freq
mile's - 2 freq
mells - 10 freq
mulk - 27 freq
mealick - 1 freq
mools - 11 freq
milky - 21 freq
mills - 33 freq
malaga - 1 freq
millgeo - 1 freq
malice - 3 freq
milk's - 2 freq
myle's - 1 freq
mouls - 6 freq
mullagh - 1 freq
mall's - 1 freq
mileage - 7 freq
mill's - 2 freq
molach - 176 freq
males - 10 freq
melki - 4 freq
mïlk - 1 freq
melchi - 2 freq
mealicks - 2 freq
maalies - 6 freq
mylk - 13 freq
millies - 1 freq
moilies - 1 freq
mls - 2 freq
ml's - 3 freq
mulls - 6 freq
malky - 5 freq
milkie - 2 freq
muils - 2 freq
millhoose - 3 freq
malizia - 1 freq
mulish - 1 freq
'malice - 1 freq
malkie - 12 freq
mellissae - 1 freq
mulch - 2 freq
€˜maills - 1 freq
mails - 3 freq
mailies - 1 freq
malayasia - 1 freq
malaysia - 1 freq
milk-coo - 1 freq
mollucca - 1 freq
myles - 4 freq
moles - 2 freq
mallies - 1 freq
€˜milk - 1 freq
€˜meals - 1 freq
mallaes - 1 freq
mollochy - 1 freq
mollachy - 1 freq
malik - 34 freq
€œmalik - 4 freq
mules - 1 freq
mullguy - 1 freq
mollach - 2 freq
miloszs - 1 freq
malaise - 1 freq
mlj - 1 freq
mlg - 1 freq
milehiguy - 1 freq
mhlq - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - MLS
miles - 173 freq
meals - 39 freq
mile's - 2 freq
mells - 10 freq
mools - 11 freq
mills - 33 freq
malice - 3 freq
myle's - 1 freq
mouls - 6 freq
mall's - 1 freq
mill's - 2 freq
males - 10 freq
maalies - 6 freq
millies - 1 freq
moilies - 1 freq
mls - 2 freq
ml's - 3 freq
mulls - 6 freq
muils - 2 freq
malizia - 1 freq
'malice - 1 freq
mellissae - 1 freq
€˜maills - 1 freq
mails - 3 freq
mailies - 1 freq
myles - 4 freq
moles - 2 freq
mallies - 1 freq
€˜meals - 1 freq
mallaes - 1 freq
mules - 1 freq
malaise - 1 freq
MOLES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.204786 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 - 0.361748 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 - 0.027696 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 - 0.037833 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 - 0.000830 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.