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Similar words to amy in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
amy (0) - 32 freq
aty (1) - 2 freq
a'y (1) - 1 freq
am (1) - 1545 freq
aiy (1) - 4 freq
any (1) - 719 freq
amn (1) - 3 freq
am- (1) - 2 freq
amyl (1) - 1 freq
amd (1) - 2 freq
aey (1) - 4 freq
my (1) - 2963 freq
amm (1) - 1 freq
auy (1) - 1 freq
amc (1) - 1 freq
amly (1) - 1 freq
ady (1) - 2 freq
aay (1) - 1 freq
amo (1) - 49 freq
aly (1) - 5 freq
aby (1) - 11 freq
qmy (1) - 1 freq
am' (1) - 1 freq
army (1) - 82 freq
ammy (1) - 4 freq
amy (0) - 32 freq
my (1) - 2963 freq
ame (1) - 3 freq
am (1) - 1545 freq
amo (1) - 49 freq
um (2) - 151 freq
mye (2) - 6 freq
me (2) - 12981 freq
myo (2) - 1 freq
aam (2) - 9 freq
eme (2) - 1 freq
iam (2) - 2 freq
mi (2) - 246 freq
ime (2) - 1 freq
ume (2) - 2 freq
ome (2) - 1 freq
ima (2) - 1 freq
m (2) - 847 freq
im (2) - 370 freq
em (2) - 354 freq
eame (2) - 1 freq
aem (2) - 1 freq
may (2) - 449 freq
oam (2) - 2 freq
eam (2) - 7 freq
SoundEx code - A500
ain - 2885 freq
an - 77152 freq
any - 719 freq
anaw - 198 freq
a'm - 1021 freq
am - 1545 freq
ane - 2140 freq
'an - 157 freq
ah'm - 2080 freq
ahin - 262 freq
awn - 118 freq
-an - 9 freq
an-aw - 17 freq
anywey - 36 freq
ann - 105 freq
ah-ah'm - 2 freq
a-ah'm - 1 freq
annoay - 1 freq
--an - 3 freq
'ah'm - 99 freq
an'aa - 3 freq
ahm - 197 freq
'ahm - 10 freq
'am - 17 freq
aim - 51 freq
anyway - 109 freq
'a'm - 28 freq
anew - 14 freq
amna - 15 freq
aw-no - 1 freq
anne - 77 freq
a''m - 3 freq
an' - 2106 freq
an-oh - 2 freq
an-ohhh - 1 freq
ah-hmm - 1 freq
ai'm - 1 freq
aa-an - 1 freq
anno - 5 freq
annie - 108 freq
©an - 1 freq
a'mna - 1 freq
ana - 143 freq
an-aa - 7 freq
anh - 1 freq
amy - 32 freq
aa'm - 4 freq
amo - 49 freq
ah''m - 8 freq
aan - 30 freq
ame - 3 freq
anna - 18 freq
anyhoo - 9 freq
ahein - 1 freq
aam - 9 freq
annaw - 2 freq
anaa - 20 freq
anywiy - 8 freq
ano - 6 freq
ahmm - 1 freq
ahin' - 2 freq
ahenny - 1 freq
anwey - 1 freq
'anyhow - 2 freq
ahem - 12 freq
annoy - 12 freq
an- - 1 freq
ain- - 1 freq
anae - 1 freq
ah'n - 1 freq
'annie - 3 freq
®an - 1 freq
a'hm - 5 freq
«an - 1 freq
'ane - 2 freq
anaa' - 1 freq
am' - 1 freq
anny - 1 freq
'any - 2 freq
ah-hin - 2 freq
anee - 1 freq
anee' - 1 freq
ahaun - 1 freq
am-eh - 1 freq
'anyway - 1 freq
ahim - 3 freq
a'mie - 1 freq
a'en - 1 freq
aown - 1 freq
ani' - 1 freq
'an' - 1 freq
anyhow - 5 freq
aiyun - 1 freq
awhin - 1 freq
awin - 5 freq
annew - 1 freq
an'-oh - 1 freq
amn - 3 freq
'anne - 3 freq
aen - 10 freq
ainhie - 1 freq
annay - 4 freq
ayenoo - 2 freq
amnae - 2 freq
aween - 1 freq
'ane' - 2 freq
'anywey - 1 freq
€˜an - 19 freq
€˜am - 4 freq
€”an - 2 freq
€œan - 76 freq
€˜ane - 2 freq
an'aa' - 1 freq
annaa - 1 freq
€¦an - 1 freq
ah-um - 1 freq
€œam - 10 freq
aa'hin - 1 freq
aahin - 3 freq
anywaiy - 17 freq
€˜any - 4 freq
€˜ah'm - 4 freq
€œa'm - 1 freq
€œany - 1 freq
€œan' - 1 freq
ainee - 1 freq
€œane - 2 freq
€œanyway - 1 freq
€œah'm - 1 freq
€œahem - 1 freq
aon - 4 freq
am- - 2 freq
€˜aon - 1 freq
€™an - 2 freq
ayne - 3 freq
ana' - 3 freq
€™anywey - 1 freq
aem - 1 freq
anw - 1 freq
aÂ’m - 27 freq
anÂ’ - 4 freq
aÂ’n - 1 freq
ahÂ’m - 68 freq
aÂ’hm - 1 freq
awan - 1 freq
“am - 2 freq
anoo - 7 freq
aÂ’hin - 1 freq
amm - 1 freq
aimee - 10 freq
anya - 1 freq
ayn - 3 freq
aÂ’yon - 1 freq
anaw' - 1 freq
“an - 1 freq
annie” - 1 freq
ainÂ’ - 1 freq
anywye - 1 freq
ammy - 4 freq
aaeam - 2 freq
ahn - 1 freq
aine - 4 freq
MetaPhone code - AM
a'm - 1021 freq
am - 1545 freq
ah'm - 2080 freq
ah-ah'm - 2 freq
a-ah'm - 1 freq
'ah'm - 99 freq
ahm - 197 freq
'ahm - 10 freq
'am - 17 freq
aim - 51 freq
'a'm - 28 freq
a''m - 3 freq
ah-hmm - 1 freq
ai'm - 1 freq
amy - 32 freq
aa'm - 4 freq
amo - 49 freq
ah''m - 8 freq
ame - 3 freq
aam - 9 freq
ahmm - 1 freq
a'hm - 5 freq
am' - 1 freq
am-eh - 1 freq
a'mie - 1 freq
€˜am - 4 freq
ah-um - 1 freq
€œam - 10 freq
€˜ah'm - 4 freq
€œa'm - 1 freq
€œah'm - 1 freq
am- - 2 freq
aÂ’m - 27 freq
ahÂ’m - 68 freq
aÂ’hm - 1 freq
“am - 2 freq
amm - 1 freq
aimee - 10 freq
ammy - 4 freq
aaeam - 2 freq
AMY
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.293823 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 - 0.532761 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 - 0.063296 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 - 0.039040 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 - 0.001100 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.