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Similar words to giles in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
giles (0) - 9 freq
miles (1) - 173 freq
gies (1) - 516 freq
giless (1) - 4 freq
gills (1) - 8 freq
biles (1) - 14 freq
files (1) - 111 freq
piles (1) - 26 freq
wiles (1) - 11 freq
tiles (1) - 16 freq
siles (1) - 1 freq
gites (1) - 1 freq
gives (1) - 20 freq
giled (1) - 1 freq
gales (1) - 12 freq
oiles (1) - 1 freq
iles (1) - 3 freq
giem (2) - 1 freq
oils (2) - 2 freq
ills (2) - 36 freq
roles (2) - 12 freq
kilns (2) - 1 freq
tills (2) - 4 freq
dides (2) - 1 freq
coles (2) - 4 freq
giles (0) - 9 freq
gales (1) - 12 freq
oiles (2) - 1 freq
gies (2) - 516 freq
giled (2) - 1 freq
iles (2) - 3 freq
gels (2) - 1 freq
aigles (2) - 1 freq
galas (2) - 1 freq
miles (2) - 173 freq
gals (2) - 2 freq
gives (2) - 20 freq
biles (2) - 14 freq
gills (2) - 8 freq
giless (2) - 4 freq
gites (2) - 1 freq
files (2) - 111 freq
siles (2) - 1 freq
piles (2) - 26 freq
tiles (2) - 16 freq
wiles (2) - 11 freq
jules (3) - 1 freq
gunes (3) - 2 freq
guides (3) - 15 freq
wyles (3) - 2 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 - JLS
jalouse - 183 freq
gills - 8 freq
jealousy - 15 freq
geylies - 3 freq
jealous - 55 freq
jalous - 2 freq
jaloose - 23 freq
julie's - 1 freq
giles - 9 freq
joyless - 1 freq
jewlis - 1 freq
jyle's - 1 freq
gill's - 2 freq
jalooze - 1 freq
jailous - 1 freq
julius - 5 freq
gels - 1 freq
giless - 4 freq
geyleis - 1 freq
gillies - 7 freq
gillis - 1 freq
jeelousy - 1 freq
jeelous - 5 freq
july's - 2 freq
jolla's - 1 freq
jalousie - 12 freq
jalouze - 4 freq
jeels - 3 freq
jaelous - 2 freq
jeelies - 4 freq
jeilous - 1 freq
jaelousy - 1 freq
jyles - 1 freq
€œjills - 1 freq
€œjalouse - 1 freq
jools - 1 freq
jollies - 1 freq
jails - 1 freq
jules - 1 freq
jellus - 1 freq
GILES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.209961 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 - 0.490480 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 - 0.027563 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 - 0.076841 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 - 0.001118 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.