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Similar words to ghouls in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
ghouls (0) - 5 freq
houls (1) - 10 freq
ghoul (1) - 6 freq
growls (2) - 14 freq
shoul (2) - 2 freq
groups (2) - 152 freq
ghoulish (2) - 2 freq
gowls (2) - 2 freq
goals (2) - 51 freq
hools (2) - 2 freq
gous (2) - 1 freq
smouls (2) - 1 freq
houps (2) - 1 freq
thoums (2) - 2 freq
ghoulies (2) - 2 freq
hauls (2) - 1 freq
shouts (2) - 107 freq
souls (2) - 25 freq
fouls (2) - 2 freq
houts (2) - 1 freq
hours (2) - 117 freq
hou's (2) - 15 freq
goul (2) - 3 freq
shours (2) - 1 freq
thou's (2) - 1 freq
ghouls (0) - 5 freq
ghoulies (2) - 2 freq
ghoul (2) - 6 freq
houls (2) - 10 freq
shools (3) - 12 freq
shoals (3) - 2 freq
huls (3) - 6 freq
ghlas (3) - 1 freq
hauls (3) - 1 freq
hools (3) - 2 freq
gauls (3) - 2 freq
hols (3) - 6 freq
ghoulish (3) - 2 freq
goals (3) - 51 freq
gowls (3) - 2 freq
phials (4) - 1 freq
huils (4) - 5 freq
haals (4) - 9 freq
gaels (4) - 17 freq
whaals (4) - 4 freq
haels (4) - 1 freq
hls (4) - 1 freq
tholes (4) - 17 freq
heels (4) - 77 freq
cheils (4) - 33 freq
SoundEx code - G420
gulls - 20 freq
glisk - 72 freq
gless - 395 freq
glesca - 168 freq
gleg - 127 freq
glesgie - 6 freq
'glesca - 1 freq
gylick - 1 freq
gaelic - 652 freq
glesea - 2 freq
glass - 80 freq
gallus - 97 freq
glazie - 5 freq
gills - 8 freq
glog - 3 freq
geylies - 3 freq
glesga - 107 freq
gloss - 7 freq
glows - 7 freq
glasgow - 150 freq
glessie - 3 freq
glaizie - 5 freq
goulash - 2 freq
gulliegaw - 1 freq
ghouls - 5 freq
gallows - 17 freq
goals - 51 freq
glaesga - 1 freq
ghoulies - 2 freq
gallowa's - 1 freq
glaik - 3 freq
gullocks - 1 freq
gales - 12 freq
gallic - 4 freq
giles - 9 freq
ghillies - 1 freq
gleek - 5 freq
glessy - 1 freq
glossy - 14 freq
galaxy - 20 freq
glisks - 10 freq
glassy - 2 freq
glaisscs - 1 freq
glaiss - 65 freq
glaisgae - 6 freq
gill's - 2 freq
glasgae - 20 freq
glug - 6 freq
gilly-go - 1 freq
glesgae - 17 freq
gleskie - 3 freq
goalie's - 2 freq
gollach - 4 freq
golach - 3 freq
'gleg - 1 freq
gull's - 1 freq
gloag's - 1 freq
gulag - 2 freq
gels - 1 freq
glescae - 7 freq
giless - 4 freq
glesgay - 1 freq
geyleis - 1 freq
gillies - 7 freq
glack - 1 freq
gillis - 1 freq
gellick - 47 freq
gellicks - 5 freq
gauls - 2 freq
glasgw - 1 freq
galleys - 3 freq
gaalic - 1 freq
gaeilge - 2 freq
gaels - 17 freq
gallik - 3 freq
glas- - 1 freq
glaze - 3 freq
gleck - 1 freq
ghoulish - 2 freq
gulsh - 2 freq
gallowsha - 2 freq
glasow - 1 freq
gaelige - 2 freq
gullies - 3 freq
golac - 1 freq
gloze - 1 freq
gaelic's - 1 freq
geology - 5 freq
'glasgow' - 1 freq
gowls - 2 freq
guiless - 1 freq
galas - 1 freq
glase - 1 freq
gulsa - 1 freq
glackie - 2 freq
goloch - 2 freq
'glackie' - 2 freq
ghlas - 1 freq
gallous - 1 freq
gloag - 8 freq
'gloag - 1 freq
gale's - 1 freq
gleesh - 1 freq
glesgy - 7 freq
'glesgy - 3 freq
glig - 1 freq
gliss - 1 freq
gals - 2 freq
glaissy - 1 freq
€”gaelic - 1 freq
€œgaelic - 2 freq
geluk - 1 freq
€˜glesca - 2 freq
glaess - 1 freq
glashie - 1 freq
glasgou - 1 freq
gallas - 1 freq
glassa - 1 freq
€œglasgow - 2 freq
glasgaa - 1 freq
glegs - 1 freq
gleg-ee - 1 freq
glais - 1 freq
gaelg - 1 freq
gah-lik - 1 freq
gay-lik - 1 freq
glaisÂ’s - 1 freq
glaschu - 2 freq
golaÂ’s - 1 freq
golloch - 1 freq
glesgo - 1 freq
glassgow - 1 freq
gollywogs - 1 freq
gellick's - 10 freq
glassÂ’ - 2 freq
gilhaus - 1 freq
gillhaus - 1 freq
gihlhaus - 1 freq
glasgow' - 1 freq
glegg - 1 freq
glasgie - 1 freq
guillys - 3 freq
glossay - 1 freq
galloways - 1 freq
gulloch - 4 freq
gullock - 3 freq
gaelsÂ’ - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FLS
flees - 73 freq
feels - 163 freq
fyles - 44 freq
files - 111 freq
villas - 2 freq
fellas' - 1 freq
floozy - 3 freq
fellas - 12 freq
fella's - 2 freq
false - 33 freq
'flees - 1 freq
fleas - 13 freq
falls - 15 freq
flies - 33 freq
follows - 21 freq
fleece - 11 freq
fleys - 1 freq
fills - 36 freq
fellaes - 9 freq
folies - 1 freq
ghouls - 5 freq
values - 14 freq
flows - 11 freq
follaes - 58 freq
foals - 4 freq
ghoulies - 2 freq
fells - 2 freq
floss - 16 freq
fallaes - 1 freq
flaws - 11 freq
flaes - 1 freq
voles - 2 freq
fauls - 2 freq
ghillies - 1 freq
volleys - 2 freq
faalls - 1 freq
fules - 2 freq
flosi - 2 freq
veils - 3 freq
full's - 1 freq
fails - 20 freq
volce - 1 freq
volieys - 1 freq
fiel's - 1 freq
fals - 1 freq
fiels - 23 freq
floozie - 3 freq
folly's - 1 freq
fly's - 1 freq
flea's - 2 freq
flays - 1 freq
faals - 1 freq
fuels - 6 freq
valleys - 3 freq
fools - 12 freq
follies - 8 freq
valais - 1 freq
fellows - 1 freq
fulls - 2 freq
fuils - 7 freq
fellah's - 2 freq
villius - 2 freq
fallas' - 3 freq
vouels - 1 freq
vooels - 2 freq
flossy - 1 freq
fooils - 1 freq
faalse - 1 freq
velues - 6 freq
falso - 1 freq
feelies - 1 freq
phyleus - 2 freq
folloos - 1 freq
foula's - 1 freq
föl's - 1 freq
ghlas - 1 freq
vales - 4 freq
valles - 1 freq
fowls - 1 freq
floes - 1 freq
feel's - 1 freq
follas - 1 freq
phallus - 2 freq
foulis - 1 freq
vallies - 1 freq
phials - 1 freq
phil's - 4 freq
phyllis - 1 freq
fallacy - 1 freq
folios - 2 freq
fouls - 2 freq
faills - 1 freq
foalies - 1 freq
vailues - 2 freq
€˜valleys - 1 freq
failzie - 1 freq
fallows - 1 freq
folloes - 1 freq
flossie - 1 freq
vools - 3 freq
faels - 1 freq
fool's - 1 freq
foolÂ’s - 1 freq
flys - 4 freq
fylse - 4 freq
valley's - 1 freq
'feels - 1 freq
follys - 1 freq
vols - 1 freq
phils - 1 freq
feuls - 1 freq
vls - 1 freq
GHOULS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.221374 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 - 0.397609 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 - 0.028834 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 - 0.040850 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 - 0.000905 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.