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Similar words to kerries in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
kerries (0) - 8 freq
skerries (1) - 10 freq
berries (1) - 26 freq
ferries (1) - 5 freq
kerrie (1) - 1 freq
merries (1) - 6 freq
kerrien (1) - 3 freq
herries (1) - 4 freq
cerries (1) - 3 freq
kerried (1) - 23 freq
jerries (1) - 11 freq
kerrs (2) - 9 freq
terriers (2) - 1 freq
kerriein (2) - 1 freq
kirrie (2) - 1 freq
sherries (2) - 2 freq
yarries (2) - 1 freq
verrier (2) - 1 freq
kerrots (2) - 1 freq
ferris (2) - 1 freq
larries (2) - 8 freq
carries (2) - 10 freq
memries (2) - 9 freq
ferriers (2) - 1 freq
perties (2) - 7 freq
kerries (0) - 8 freq
herries (2) - 4 freq
cerries (2) - 3 freq
jerries (2) - 11 freq
kerrien (2) - 3 freq
kerried (2) - 23 freq
kerrs (2) - 9 freq
merries (2) - 6 freq
berries (2) - 26 freq
skerries (2) - 10 freq
kerrie (2) - 1 freq
ferries (2) - 5 freq
kerrit (3) - 1 freq
sorries (3) - 2 freq
lorries (3) - 6 freq
worries (3) - 63 freq
hurries (3) - 3 freq
wurries (3) - 2 freq
wirries (3) - 10 freq
kerr's (3) - 1 freq
kyerried (3) - 2 freq
corries (3) - 15 freq
kerrion (3) - 1 freq
curries (3) - 7 freq
barries (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - K620
kirk - 530 freq
kirks - 30 freq
kirk's - 10 freq
kwerious - 8 freq
kirko - 2 freq
karaoke - 6 freq
kerouac - 2 freq
kerries - 8 freq
kirky - 12 freq
korea's - 1 freq
kerrs - 9 freq
kers - 6 freq
krug - 1 freq
koors - 1 freq
kargo - 1 freq
keerious - 3 freq
kirk' - 1 freq
kerr's - 1 freq
'kireji' - 1 freq
€˜kirk - 2 freq
kris - 1 freq
“kerouac” - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KRS
gress - 200 freq
coorse - 831 freq
course - 498 freq
grows - 43 freq
cries - 101 freq
grass - 106 freq
craws - 60 freq
gray's - 3 freq
cross - 260 freq
curious - 75 freq
croass - 8 freq
cares - 61 freq
cours - 3 freq
curse - 72 freq
gurrs - 1 freq
cairries - 36 freq
grace - 155 freq
cars - 100 freq
gairs - 1 freq
crouse - 32 freq
gaars - 1 freq
greece - 23 freq
cuirious - 3 freq
querious - 2 freq
crazy - 38 freq
graze - 9 freq
gressy - 15 freq
croose - 14 freq
craze - 6 freq
gracie - 22 freq
gaurs - 2 freq
caurs - 10 freq
corrie's - 2 freq
gars - 89 freq
greasy - 27 freq
caur's - 1 freq
coories - 5 freq
'cross - 4 freq
'course - 5 freq
coors - 5 freq
caress - 4 freq
curroos - 2 freq
craas - 6 freq
careous - 1 freq
queries - 1 freq
cairies - 4 freq
carse - 17 freq
greys - 5 freq
grouse - 29 freq
corries - 15 freq
curries - 7 freq
corse - 2 freq
grease - 12 freq
ycars - 1 freq
craw's - 5 freq
cures - 4 freq
gross - 6 freq
cros - 1 freq
hcro's - 1 freq
coarse - 67 freq
car's - 16 freq
goarse - 1 freq
cary's - 2 freq
gar's - 2 freq
grassy - 7 freq
crews - 4 freq
crows - 4 freq
gris - 1 freq
quires - 1 freq
quares - 1 freq
crusoe - 3 freq
carries - 10 freq
goers - 3 freq
carso - 1 freq
corss - 9 freq
'coorse - 14 freq
cora's - 3 freq
grees - 18 freq
cruise - 13 freq
crease - 3 freq
kerries - 8 freq
crehs - 1 freq
'grice' - 3 freq
grous - 2 freq
croas - 1 freq
criss - 5 freq
korea's - 1 freq
curios - 1 freq
gurs - 1 freq
craa's - 2 freq
cairres - 1 freq
cross' - 1 freq
currie's - 2 freq
gorse - 6 freq
gress' - 1 freq
garrs - 2 freq
craaws - 2 freq
currys - 1 freq
groose - 4 freq
grice - 38 freq
croy's - 2 freq
kerrs - 9 freq
croys - 1 freq
gairsay - 1 freq
'grace' - 1 freq
quarries - 4 freq
corry's - 1 freq
corrs - 2 freq
cores - 3 freq
gary's - 7 freq
kers - 6 freq
grouws - 1 freq
gorie's - 1 freq
caers - 1 freq
graws - 4 freq
'grees - 2 freq
croasss - 1 freq
crass - 4 freq
koors - 1 freq
quairs - 3 freq
grey's - 2 freq
cry's - 1 freq
keerious - 3 freq
crosshy - 1 freq
caress' - 1 freq
coars - 1 freq
cairrie's - 1 freq
greiss - 1 freq
kerr's - 1 freq
courries - 1 freq
gros - 8 freq
greesie - 1 freq
'curse - 1 freq
quarz - 2 freq
grays - 2 freq
courss - 2 freq
gruws - 2 freq
coorse' - 1 freq
quarry's - 4 freq
gryss - 3 freq
cuirs - 1 freq
grues - 1 freq
groce - 4 freq
grose - 1 freq
cruz - 1 freq
gruesie - 1 freq
€˜course - 1 freq
corsa - 1 freq
cawrs - 1 freq
€˜grossa - 2 freq
€œgrossa - 1 freq
€œcrazy - 1 freq
grasse - 1 freq
coires - 1 freq
cors - 1 freq
€œgracie - 1 freq
gryce - 1 freq
caries - 1 freq
carsie - 1 freq
cairious - 1 freq
crys - 1 freq
€œgrace - 2 freq
creus - 1 freq
grayÂ’s - 3 freq
ckeroos - 1 freq
carr's - 1 freq
craÂ’s - 1 freq
gras - 5 freq
carrie's - 1 freq
kris - 1 freq
caresÂ’ - 1 freq
KERRIES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.221664 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 - 0.380683 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 - 0.028787 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 - 0.041397 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 - 0.000928 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.