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Similar words to bloods in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
bloods (0) - 5 freq
blood' (1) - 1 freq
blooms (1) - 9 freq
kloods (1) - 1 freq
bloody (1) - 258 freq
broods (1) - 1 freq
blood (1) - 141 freq
cloods (1) - 98 freq
floods (1) - 13 freq
woods (2) - 35 freq
plooks (2) - 11 freq
baloons (2) - 1 freq
blokes (2) - 8 freq
booms (2) - 3 freq
bloom (2) - 27 freq
cloos (2) - 1 freq
blobs (2) - 4 freq
ploos (2) - 6 freq
bood (2) - 2 freq
'loons (2) - 1 freq
blonde (2) - 42 freq
loads (2) - 87 freq
croods (2) - 30 freq
boos (2) - 3 freq
bloodit (2) - 1 freq
bloods (0) - 5 freq
floods (2) - 13 freq
blads (2) - 9 freq
bleeds (2) - 6 freq
cloods (2) - 98 freq
blauds (2) - 1 freq
bleds (2) - 1 freq
kloods (2) - 1 freq
blooms (2) - 9 freq
blood' (2) - 1 freq
blood (2) - 141 freq
bloody (2) - 258 freq
broods (2) - 1 freq
blows (3) - 14 freq
blondes (3) - 2 freq
boonds (3) - 7 freq
becloods (3) - 1 freq
klods (3) - 1 freq
blocs (3) - 2 freq
bloose (3) - 5 freq
beilds (3) - 1 freq
baloos (3) - 1 freq
bledds (3) - 2 freq
blinds (3) - 16 freq
bloddy (3) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - B432
blades - 22 freq
bields - 13 freq
bluid's - 2 freq
bullets - 29 freq
blowts - 1 freq
blythsome - 1 freq
baltic - 29 freq
builds - 3 freq
blithesome - 3 freq
ballads - 24 freq
billets - 3 freq
blythesome - 10 freq
bluidshot - 3 freq
bluidstains - 1 freq
bloodshot - 1 freq
bolts - 12 freq
belts - 15 freq
bloats - 1 freq
blitz - 7 freq
blade's - 2 freq
blood-shot - 1 freq
bluid-soaked - 1 freq
bluid-stained - 1 freq
blotches - 3 freq
bull-thick - 1 freq
bleeds - 6 freq
blotch - 6 freq
blythsum - 1 freq
bloatches - 1 freq
baldastard - 1 freq
bloodshoat - 2 freq
bulldog - 3 freq
blatts - 5 freq
bloodsuckin - 1 freq
blotts - 1 freq
blood-curdlin - 2 freq
blytheswid - 1 freq
bulldozer - 2 freq
bulldozers - 1 freq
blythesum - 2 freq
biled-sweetie - 2 freq
bluid-shot - 1 freq
blitzen - 1 freq
blitzt - 1 freq
bleds - 1 freq
blathewick - 3 freq
blotchy - 2 freq
blads - 9 freq
'ballats' - 1 freq
bleudiest - 1 freq
blood-stained - 1 freq
blitzed - 1 freq
beldie's - 2 freq
bluidspring - 1 freq
bledds - 2 freq
bieldside - 2 freq
buhlitts - 2 freq
baults - 3 freq
'ballads' - 2 freq
bluidshed - 2 freq
bleats - 1 freq
balthasar - 1 freq
blöd-spring - 1 freq
bleddick-coloured - 1 freq
blate-kyn - 1 freq
blatk's - 1 freq
blauds - 1 freq
bloodgood - 1 freq
blithesum - 1 freq
bulldeug - 1 freq
bauldest - 1 freq
ballats - 1 freq
by-leids - 2 freq
bield's - 1 freq
bloodaxe - 2 freq
ballads' - 1 freq
bulldozed - 1 freq
byleids - 9 freq
blood-curdling - 1 freq
bluid-curdlin - 2 freq
blu-tack - 1 freq
belt-ish - 1 freq
bulldozin - 1 freq
bludgeonin - 1 freq
bloods - 5 freq
beilds - 1 freq
€™-bluidy-sulliven - 1 freq
blithsome - 2 freq
ballots - 1 freq
bye-leids - 3 freq
bloodstain - 1 freq
€œblythesome - 1 freq
bulldug - 2 freq
belt's - 1 freq
behaltkeeps - 1 freq
bloodstream - 1 freq
''bloodsuckers'' - 1 freq
blitzwalker - 1 freq
bulldoze - 1 freq
byleid's - 1 freq
baltasound - 1 freq
boiledeggs - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - BLTS
blades - 22 freq
bields - 13 freq
bluid's - 2 freq
bullets - 29 freq
blowts - 1 freq
builds - 3 freq
ballads - 24 freq
billets - 3 freq
bolts - 12 freq
belts - 15 freq
bloats - 1 freq
blitz - 7 freq
blade's - 2 freq
bleeds - 6 freq
blatts - 5 freq
blotts - 1 freq
bleds - 1 freq
blads - 9 freq
'ballats' - 1 freq
beldie's - 2 freq
bledds - 2 freq
buhlitts - 2 freq
baults - 3 freq
'ballads' - 2 freq
bleats - 1 freq
blauds - 1 freq
ballats - 1 freq
by-leids - 2 freq
bield's - 1 freq
ballads' - 1 freq
byleids - 9 freq
bloods - 5 freq
beilds - 1 freq
ballots - 1 freq
belt's - 1 freq
bulldoze - 1 freq
byleid's - 1 freq
BLOODS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.177241 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 - 0.338113 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 - 0.032894 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 - 0.040138 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 - 0.000916 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.