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Similar words to wry in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
wry (0) - 12 freq
wy (1) - 11 freq
wiy (1) - 27 freq
way (1) - 878 freq
ury (1) - 2 freq
wary (1) - 11 freq
wly (1) - 1 freq
try (1) - 786 freq
awry (1) - 1 freq
wjy (1) - 1 freq
ery (1) - 15 freq
pry (1) - 1 freq
cry (1) - 368 freq
dry (1) - 471 freq
zry (1) - 1 freq
wri (1) - 1 freq
yry (1) - 1 freq
wey (1) - 2461 freq
iry (1) - 1 freq
fry (1) - 37 freq
ry (1) - 7 freq
wery (1) - 1 freq
wr (1) - 7 freq
why (1) - 804 freq
wiry (1) - 10 freq
wry (0) - 12 freq
awry (1) - 1 freq
wri (1) - 1 freq
wary (1) - 11 freq
wery (1) - 1 freq
wr (1) - 7 freq
wiry (1) - 10 freq
wire (2) - 62 freq
owray (2) - 1 freq
wore (2) - 121 freq
wayry (2) - 1 freq
weary (2) - 60 freq
wer (2) - 220 freq
were (2) - 4054 freq
war (2) - 1438 freq
awery (2) - 1 freq
wyre (2) - 5 freq
ware (2) - 26 freq
wure (2) - 5 freq
owr (2) - 1 freq
waury (2) - 1 freq
owre (2) - 610 freq
wyr (2) - 5 freq
wor (2) - 20 freq
waary (2) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - W600
whaur - 1961 freq
were - 4054 freq
we're - 724 freq
where - 706 freq
wir - 2162 freq
wore - 121 freq
whar - 382 freq
wear - 157 freq
weary - 60 freq
wee-er - 29 freq
wire - 62 freq
waur - 221 freq
weeer - 2 freq
weer - 68 freq
whirrr - 2 freq
war - 1438 freq
worry - 147 freq
wur - 1596 freq
who're - 4 freq
ware - 26 freq
'whaur - 24 freq
whaar - 180 freq
wurr - 27 freq
'where - 15 freq
'we're - 34 freq
weir - 139 freq
wer - 220 freq
'were - 4 freq
whirwey - 1 freq
wure - 5 freq
wry - 12 freq
whaur- - 2 freq
wuir - 4 freq
waar - 70 freq
we'r - 41 freq
weeir - 3 freq
'w'ur - 1 freq
wi're - 22 freq
whair - 12 freq
wyre - 5 freq
wary - 11 freq
wirry - 26 freq
warie - 1 freq
w'e're - 1 freq
whor - 1 freq
'wur - 3 freq
wor - 20 freq
wearie - 10 freq
whure - 1 freq
wi'r - 13 freq
wr - 7 freq
weyer - 1 freq
whore' - 1 freq
wha're - 4 freq
whur - 63 freq
whara - 1 freq
wiher - 1 freq
wi'yer - 1 freq
whir - 11 freq
waury - 1 freq
whar'r - 1 freq
wireoa - 1 freq
wee'er - 8 freq
weear - 1 freq
where- - 2 freq
wurry - 3 freq
waer - 2 freq
wae'r - 2 freq
wery - 1 freq
wooer - 3 freq
wiry - 10 freq
worrie - 3 freq
'we'r - 1 freq
whoor - 2 freq
'wir - 7 freq
wheer - 20 freq
werr - 5 freq
'whaar - 1 freq
wa'er - 1 freq
'whar - 1 freq
wurhae - 1 freq
waary - 1 freq
wri - 1 freq
wor' - 2 freq
wi'oor - 1 freq
whirr - 4 freq
whare - 19 freq
wier - 2 freq
wöre - 1 freq
whurr - 6 freq
wair - 6 freq
w'ir - 17 freq
'weary' - 1 freq
'-where' - 1 freq
'were' - 1 freq
wye-are - 1 freq
wha'r - 2 freq
'waur - 1 freq
where - 15 freq
wör - 2 freq
whe'er - 1 freq
where - 3 freq
whaur - 15 freq
wirey - 1 freq
wirrie - 6 freq
weire - 1 freq
wee'r - 4 freq
wayry - 1 freq
war - 1 freq
whaure - 2 freq
war - 1 freq
wur - 1 freq
whar - 1 freq
whaur - 2 freq
where - 2 freq
wherr - 3 freq
whar - 3 freq
we're - 4 freq
were - 1 freq
wyr - 5 freq
whyr - 1 freq
whire - 1 freq
whore - 1 freq
wir - 4 freq
wher - 6 freq
wahr - 1 freq
we’re - 32 freq
whar' - 1 freq
‘where - 1 freq
wa’ar - 3 freq
wirh - 1 freq
“were - 1 freq
werra - 1 freq
“wear - 1 freq
worry” - 1 freq
we’r - 1 freq
“where - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - R
ray - 17 freq
raw - 132 freq
row - 100 freq
r - 446 freq
rey - 12 freq
rae - 13 freq
re - 48 freq
wry - 12 freq
y'are - 3 freq
rue - 19 freq
ra - 12 freq
'w'ur - 1 freq
raa - 38 freq
ri - 117 freq
roy - 54 freq
riew - 1 freq
wyre - 5 freq
w'e're - 1 freq
ree - 7 freq
wr - 7 freq
ry - 7 freq
rah - 5 freq
rea - 1 freq
're - 4 freq
reu - 3 freq
hrh - 1 freq
r - 1 freq
roi' - 1 freq
y'ir - 9 freq
roo - 79 freq
'roo - 1 freq
wri - 1 freq
wöre - 1 freq
ær - 5 freq
rre - 1 freq
w'ir - 17 freq
r - 7 freq
r - 2 freq
ri - 1 freq
ru - 1 freq
r - 2 freq
r - 1 freq
r - 2 freq
rieu - 1 freq
r - 1 freq
- 1 freq
re - 657 freq
'r' - 1 freq
r - 277 freq
wör - 2 freq
re - 2 freq
ry - 4 freq
úr - 2 freq
--r - 1 freq
rie - 1 freq
roe - 15 freq
rio - 5 freq
raw - 1 freq
ár - 1 freq
hr - 11 freq
ör - 1 freq
yr - 16 freq
rw - 33 freq
r - 6 freq
Ùr - 1 freq
wyr - 5 freq
r - 2 freq
år - 2 freq
ra - 1 freq
'r - 1 freq
roi - 1 freq
ro - 5 freq
yry - 1 freq
ria - 1 freq
rua - 3 freq
reuu - 1 freq
ùr - 1 freq
rr - 1 freq
yrw - 1 freq
rh - 1 freq
WRY
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.347093 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 - 0.863059 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 - 0.087582 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 - 0.108068 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 - 0.000789 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.