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Similar words to purch in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
perch (1) - 13 freq
curch (1) - 1 freq
lurch (1) - 6 freq
porch (1) - 22 freq
punch (1) - 48 freq
march (2) - 139 freq
wurth (2) - 7 freq
wurc (2) - 1 freq
much (2) - 1263 freq
poach (2) - 2 freq
purse (2) - 38 freq
paroch (2) - 2 freq
warch (2) - 1 freq
merch (2) - 43 freq
purim (2) - 1 freq
such (2) - 283 freq
patch (2) - 79 freq
erch (2) - 3 freq
parcht (2) - 1 freq
munch (2) - 15 freq
zurich (2) - 5 freq
poarch (2) - 1 freq
uch (2) - 3 freq
church (2) - 75 freq
poutch (2) - 1 freq
porch (1) - 22 freq
perch (1) - 13 freq
paroch (2) - 2 freq
pruch (2) - 5 freq
punch (2) - 48 freq
curch (2) - 1 freq
lurch (2) - 6 freq
poarch (2) - 1 freq
praech (3) - 2 freq
pyoch (3) - 2 freq
psych (3) - 1 freq
pitch (3) - 89 freq
pinch (3) - 21 freq
prouch (3) - 1 freq
percht (3) - 2 freq
praich (3) - 10 freq
pouch (3) - 26 freq
preach (3) - 16 freq
airch (3) - 12 freq
potch (3) - 3 freq
ruch (3) - 18 freq
auroch (3) - 2 freq
peach (3) - 19 freq
birch (3) - 2 freq
pech (3) - 35 freq
SoundEx code - P620
park - 426 freq
parks - 92 freq
pierce - 4 freq
phrase - 122 freq
parish - 30 freq
pairis - 2 freq
prog - 14 freq
press - 219 freq
pursue - 9 freq
paris - 52 freq
prize - 83 freq
pairs - 27 freq
pouers - 34 freq
pairks - 6 freq
praise - 106 freq
prick - 71 freq
purse - 38 freq
pricks - 15 freq
purrs - 3 freq
'prosze - 1 freq
price - 179 freq
perish - 12 freq
parka - 2 freq
powers - 16 freq
perch - 13 freq
prose- - 2 freq
peers - 26 freq
prowess' - 2 freq
pharaohs - 2 freq
perk - 28 freq
perks - 9 freq
pricky - 5 freq
parce - 1 freq
pairish - 54 freq
prissy - 1 freq
'press' - 3 freq
pure's - 1 freq
prose - 62 freq
prowess - 5 freq
preach - 16 freq
paerish - 1 freq
pairk - 35 freq
poors - 30 freq
proos - 1 freq
pharoahss - 1 freq
peir's - 1 freq
piers - 7 freq
pier's - 4 freq
park's - 2 freq
pryce - 1 freq
peer's - 2 freq
pow'rs - 1 freq
pores - 5 freq
prays - 5 freq
prise - 4 freq
pressie - 6 freq
pirisi - 1 freq
pork - 21 freq
prague - 11 freq
pooers - 27 freq
pours - 7 freq
porch - 22 freq
power's - 1 freq
pair's - 1 freq
prugh - 5 freq
porsche - 4 freq
'pouers - 1 freq
pros - 4 freq
proxy - 4 freq
pruck - 5 freq
perez - 7 freq
praich - 10 freq
pharisee - 13 freq
pruch - 5 freq
prush - 1 freq
'praise - 2 freq
prouch - 1 freq
'prick' - 1 freq
pyres - 2 freq
pursie - 2 freq
prigg - 4 freq
peerie-wyes - 22 freq
peeriewyes - 3 freq
praech - 2 freq
park' - 2 freq
porkie - 1 freq
perky - 1 freq
percy - 8 freq
perce - 1 freq
prig - 13 freq
prees - 2 freq
pross - 5 freq
'pross' - 1 freq
persew - 1 freq
peeric - 1 freq
prix - 3 freq
pieriewys - 1 freq
pörhoos - 1 freq
pareesh - 2 freq
proggy - 2 freq
pereesh - 1 freq
porky - 4 freq
prag - 2 freq
porage - 9 freq
parse - 1 freq
poarch - 1 freq
proag - 1 freq
pars - 9 freq
puir-hous - 1 freq
priys - 1 freq
'press - 1 freq
pharoah's - 1 freq
prose' - 1 freq
perrs - 1 freq
porres - 1 freq
progs - 7 freq
pirogue - 1 freq
porrige - 1 freq
power-saw - 1 freq
pairish' - 1 freq
pryss - 2 freq
pirks - 1 freq
pareis - 1 freq
prisk - 1 freq
€œprees - 1 freq
purk - 1 freq
pairris - 2 freq
pouer's - 1 freq
pharos - 1 freq
puirhoose - 1 freq
pearcey - 96 freq
pearce - 4 freq
€˜pearcey - 3 freq
phrygia - 2 freq
peeries - 2 freq
pre-sky - 2 freq
pricey - 4 freq
peirs - 1 freq
pea-riggs - 1 freq
€œpreach - 1 freq
parx - 1 freq
parrock - 2 freq
€œpraise - 1 freq
paroch - 2 freq
pers - 1 freq
prey's - 1 freq
prosi - 1 freq
prezzo - 2 freq
parkie - 2 freq
priiiiiick - 1 freq
piracy - 1 freq
pffruz - 1 freq
parke - 2 freq
piarais - 2 freq
pr-ick - 1 freq
prso - 1 freq
pooerhoose - 1 freq
press” - 1 freq
park” - 1 freq
payers - 4 freq
pruch” - 1 freq
prossie - 1 freq
preas - 1 freq
preasa - 1 freq
'preasa' - 1 freq
prezzie - 1 freq
prygy - 1 freq
phyrgzoh - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - PRX
parritch - 66 freq
parish - 30 freq
perish - 12 freq
perch - 13 freq
pairish - 54 freq
purritch - 3 freq
preach - 16 freq
paerish - 1 freq
porch - 22 freq
praich - 10 freq
pruch - 5 freq
prush - 1 freq
prouch - 1 freq
praech - 2 freq
porritch - 7 freq
pareesh - 2 freq
pereesh - 1 freq
poarch - 1 freq
pirraitch - 1 freq
pairish' - 1 freq
portia - 2 freq
€œpreach - 1 freq
paroch - 2 freq
pairritch - 1 freq
pruch” - 1 freq
PURCH
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.239925 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 - 0.555359 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 - 0.032669 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 - 0.069412 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 - 0.001036 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.