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Similar words to phew in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
phew (0) - 12 freq
'phew (1) - 1 freq
thew (1) - 1 freq
hew (1) - 8 freq
whew (1) - 2 freq
plew (1) - 1 freq
chew (1) - 14 freq
shew (1) - 32 freq
phem (1) - 1 freq
pew (1) - 15 freq
trew (2) - 28 freq
anew (2) - 14 freq
hed (2) - 1155 freq
pre- (2) - 3 freq
heb (2) - 1 freq
thes (2) - 12 freq
whbw (2) - 1 freq
pjw (2) - 1 freq
hee (2) - 289 freq
'het (2) - 2 freq
pler (2) - 1 freq
rhea (2) - 1 freq
paek (2) - 1 freq
ple (2) - 1 freq
'new (2) - 3 freq
phew (0) - 12 freq
chew (2) - 14 freq
shew (2) - 32 freq
pew (2) - 15 freq
plew (2) - 1 freq
phem (2) - 1 freq
whew (2) - 2 freq
'phew (2) - 1 freq
thew (2) - 1 freq
hew (2) - 8 freq
haw (3) - 106 freq
chewy (3) - 5 freq
phta (3) - 1 freq
show (3) - 493 freq
phil (3) - 29 freq
phut (3) - 7 freq
how (3) - 1649 freq
'haw (3) - 29 freq
phxu (3) - 1 freq
pow (3) - 41 freq
plaw (3) - 1 freq
phx (3) - 1 freq
phd (3) - 9 freq
chaw (3) - 24 freq
mhw (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - P000
pey - 249 freq
pe - 27 freq
pou - 53 freq
pow - 41 freq
paw - 47 freq
pie - 118 freq
p - 333 freq
powe - 6 freq
pu - 94 freq
'p - 7 freq
powie - 2 freq
pye - 52 freq
poe - 114 freq
pee-hee - 1 freq
phew - 12 freq
p-wye - 1 freq
pay - 122 freq
pea - 25 freq
pve - 4 freq
pa - 27 freq
pew - 15 freq
pae-wae - 1 freq
p've - 2 freq
pui - 1 freq
peiy - 2 freq
pee - 34 freq
phhhew - 1 freq
pfhhhhhh - 1 freq
pai - 1 freq
poo - 18 freq
pi - 7 freq
pia - 3 freq
p- - 5 freq
pfi - 2 freq
paa - 12 freq
pp - 50 freq
pooh - 450 freq
'pey - 1 freq
pi' - 1 freq
py' - 1 freq
'phew - 1 freq
po - 21 freq
'pooh - 18 freq
'pve - 1 freq
pooh' - 2 freq
puy - 3 freq
peh - 2 freq
poi - 1 freq
på - 2 freq
paewae - 2 freq
ph - 53 freq
pb - 2 freq
pie' - 1 freq
€˜p - 1 freq
€˜pay - 1 freq
paiy - 8 freq
peeeee - 2 freq
peeeeeee - 1 freq
peeeeeeee - 2 freq
€˜peeeeeeee - 1 freq
peeeeee - 2 freq
peewee - 1 freq
piy - 2 freq
pyee - 1 freq
peu - 1 freq
paey - 2 freq
pw - 4 freq
pv - 3 freq
pba - 1 freq
pwo - 1 freq
ppe - 3 freq
ppv - 4 freq
ppy - 1 freq
pf - 4 freq
pvf - 1 freq
py - 3 freq
'p' - 1 freq
pbya - 1 freq
pfh - 1 freq
poh - 1 freq
piee - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - F
fae - 9131 freq
fey - 14 freq
fou - 318 freq
view - 246 freq
faw - 148 freq
few - 844 freq
fu - 379 freq
vo - 8 freq
foo - 753 freq
faa - 281 freq
fa - 751 freq
ff - 7 freq
v - 266 freq
vi - 84 freq
f'ae - 1 freq
f'ah - 1 freq
vii - 16 freq
viii - 13 freq
ve - 41 freq
fue - 1 freq
vou - 5 freq
'foo - 11 freq
'fa - 7 freq
fo - 16 freq
fu' - 47 freq
fa' - 17 freq
fe - 10 freq
fi - 29 freq
'fae - 4 freq
f - 187 freq
phew - 12 freq
via - 80 freq
fee - 41 freq
've - 12 freq
vow - 22 freq
vie - 4 freq
feow - 2 freq
fiew - 1 freq
fie - 3 freq
wyfe - 19 freq
voe - 26 freq
foo' - 3 freq
fay - 11 freq
wv' - 1 freq
fi' - 1 freq
v' - 1 freq
fffffffffff - 1 freq
phhhew - 1 freq
wyve - 8 freq
fiu - 2 freq
'fee - 3 freq
''ve - 1 freq
ffi - 1 freq
hfe - 2 freq
h've - 1 freq
'f' - 4 freq
fea - 4 freq
fow - 2 freq
faee - 1 freq
fah - 9 freq
foy - 35 freq
va - 5 freq
fy - 7 freq
vu - 4 freq
ïf - 93 freq
'faa - 3 freq
'fu - 1 freq
fiy - 1 freq
foe - 9 freq
faa' - 1 freq
'phew - 1 freq
fae' - 1 freq
voiee - 1 freq
'gh' - 1 freq
'vi - 1 freq
hygh - 1 freq
fæ - 13 freq
wyf - 5 freq
höve - 1 freq
voo - 3 freq
vuo' - 1 freq
fiow - 1 freq
vv - 1 freq
”f - 4 freq
'fou - 1 freq
f'ou - 1 freq
ph - 53 freq
gh - 5 freq
wüve - 1 freq
€˜foo - 1 freq
°f - 1 freq
€™ve - 825 freq
€™v - 67 freq
€˜fa - 2 freq
wyfie - 2 freq
€œfa - 2 freq
€œfoo - 13 freq
wwf - 1 freq
€˜f - 2 freq
€˜fae - 1 freq
'fae' - 1 freq
€™fy - 1 freq
fau - 1 freq
€œw'uv - 1 freq
€œfaa - 1 freq
wfi - 1 freq
hyv - 1 freq
€˜-gh - 1 freq
€˜v - 1 freq
vy - 3 freq
vh - 4 freq
wf - 4 freq
yf - 4 freq
wv - 3 freq
fai - 2 freq
vw - 3 freq
ywv - 1 freq
hv - 4 freq
fii - 1 freq
yÂ’iv - 1 freq
hfi - 1 freq
hf - 2 freq
foie - 4 freq
yfe - 1 freq
fw - 3 freq
vuh - 1 freq
vaa - 1 freq
yvh - 1 freq
yvio - 1 freq
fh - 4 freq
wfh - 1 freq
hvhh - 1 freq
feuy - 1 freq
yff - 1 freq
fao - 20 freq
'view - 1 freq
ywf - 1 freq
vaw - 1 freq
vvh - 1 freq
wgh - 1 freq
ffa - 2 freq
hvw - 1 freq
yv - 1 freq
f' - 1 freq
PHEW
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.190823 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 - 0.358104 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 - 0.028176 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 - 0.038516 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 - 0.001190 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.