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Similar words to chairles in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
chairles (0) - 16 freq
chairlies (1) - 1 freq
chairges (1) - 11 freq
charles (1) - 51 freq
chairger (2) - 2 freq
chairs (2) - 69 freq
chaired (2) - 6 freq
chairlie' (2) - 1 freq
cairres (2) - 1 freq
cairies (2) - 4 freq
charlen (2) - 1 freq
chairted (2) - 1 freq
chainges (2) - 7 freq
chairlie's (2) - 21 freq
hairies (2) - 4 freq
cairves (2) - 2 freq
cairtes (2) - 1 freq
chairter (2) - 71 freq
chairged (2) - 35 freq
chairles's (2) - 1 freq
chairts (2) - 8 freq
chairters (2) - 2 freq
hailes (2) - 3 freq
carles (2) - 6 freq
chirls (2) - 2 freq
chairles (0) - 16 freq
charles (1) - 51 freq
chairlies (1) - 1 freq
chirls (2) - 2 freq
chairges (2) - 11 freq
carles (3) - 6 freq
chairts (3) - 8 freq
charle (3) - 1 freq
charley (3) - 1 freq
chairlie's (3) - 21 freq
chairlie (3) - 273 freq
chairms (3) - 1 freq
charges (3) - 16 freq
charlen (3) - 1 freq
chairs (3) - 69 freq
chairlie' (3) - 1 freq
charlie (4) - 95 freq
chirries (4) - 1 freq
chories (4) - 1 freq
chapels (4) - 2 freq
charolais (4) - 2 freq
charms (4) - 8 freq
charities (4) - 4 freq
chills (4) - 7 freq
cherges (4) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - C642
carelessly - 7 freq
careless - 10 freq
curls - 37 freq
charles - 51 freq
carroll's - 1 freq
curlicue - 1 freq
carlisle - 4 freq
creels - 24 freq
carlsberg - 3 freq
carlie's - 1 freq
cherlie's - 6 freq
charlestoun - 1 freq
cyrillic - 1 freq
carlo's - 2 freq
charlie's - 10 freq
chairles - 16 freq
chairles's - 1 freq
carles - 6 freq
creel's - 3 freq
carlos - 3 freq
carelessness - 3 freq
charolais - 2 freq
curlicues - 2 freq
chairlies - 1 freq
charleston - 2 freq
chairlie's - 21 freq
'chairlie's - 1 freq
curlew's - 1 freq
crowls - 1 freq
charles's - 1 freq
crulged - 5 freq
creel-chair - 1 freq
carl's - 1 freq
crewless - 1 freq
crallowsha - 1 freq
crawls - 1 freq
craals - 1 freq
cruellest - 2 freq
chirls - 2 freq
carlochy - 1 freq
crulge - 1 freq
carols - 3 freq
corrlichie - 2 freq
creils - 1 freq
cròileagain - 1 freq
crawlies - 1 freq
cereals - 2 freq
carluke - 2 freq
crulgit - 2 freq
craalies - 3 freq
carlyeaston - 1 freq
charliechock - 1 freq
carrolls - 1 freq
corralejo - 1 freq
curlysoo - 1 freq
carl’s - 1 freq
carlgo - 1 freq
curlewsincrisis - 1 freq
carolst - 1 freq
curlews - 1 freq
cgrlwxecju - 1 freq
carolecadwalla - 1 freq
charlesponzi - 6 freq
charliegracie - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - XRLS
charles - 51 freq
cherlie's - 6 freq
charlie's - 10 freq
chairles - 16 freq
charolais - 2 freq
chairlies - 1 freq
chairlie's - 21 freq
'chairlie's - 1 freq
chirls - 2 freq
CHAIRLES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.222063 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 - 0.395458 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 - 0.029415 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 - 0.038534 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 - 0.000907 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.