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Similar words to purse in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
purse (0) - 37 freq
pursed (1) - 6 freq
purses (1) - 1 freq
pulse (1) - 23 freq
nurse (1) - 169 freq
curse (1) - 72 freq
pursie (1) - 2 freq
wurse (1) - 16 freq
pure (1) - 676 freq
pursue (1) - 9 freq
turse (1) - 1 freq
parse (1) - 1 freq
ruise (2) - 10 freq
airse (2) - 13 freq
puds (2) - 1 freq
pose (2) - 16 freq
pers (2) - 1 freq
'curse (2) - 1 freq
girse (2) - 89 freq
pse (2) - 1 freq
corse (2) - 2 freq
pupae (2) - 1 freq
durie (2) - 1 freq
ruse (2) - 1 freq
gorse (2) - 6 freq
purse (0) - 37 freq
pursie (1) - 2 freq
parse (1) - 1 freq
pursue (1) - 9 freq
pers (2) - 1 freq
prose (2) - 60 freq
pours (2) - 7 freq
prso (2) - 1 freq
pars (2) - 9 freq
turse (2) - 1 freq
prise (2) - 4 freq
purses (2) - 1 freq
nurse (2) - 169 freq
pure (2) - 676 freq
pulse (2) - 23 freq
pursed (2) - 6 freq
curse (2) - 72 freq
wurse (2) - 16 freq
verse (3) - 134 freq
erse (3) - 269 freq
course (3) - 498 freq
sperse (3) - 1 freq
pups (3) - 9 freq
purim (3) - 1 freq
merse (3) - 4 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 - 105 freq
prick - 71 freq
purse - 37 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 - 60 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
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
prague - 10 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 - PRS
pierce - 4 freq
pairis - 2 freq
press - 219 freq
pursue - 9 freq
paris - 52 freq
prize - 83 freq
pairs - 27 freq
pouers - 34 freq
praise - 105 freq
purse - 37 freq
purrs - 3 freq
price - 179 freq
prose- - 2 freq
peers - 26 freq
parce - 1 freq
prissy - 1 freq
'press' - 3 freq
pure's - 1 freq
prose - 60 freq
poors - 30 freq
proos - 1 freq
peir's - 1 freq
piers - 7 freq
pier's - 4 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
pooers - 27 freq
pours - 7 freq
pair's - 1 freq
'pouers - 1 freq
pros - 4 freq
perez - 7 freq
'praise - 2 freq
pyres - 2 freq
ypres - 5 freq
pursie - 2 freq
percy - 8 freq
perce - 1 freq
prees - 2 freq
pross - 5 freq
'pross' - 1 freq
persew - 1 freq
pieriewys - 1 freq
parse - 1 freq
pars - 9 freq
priys - 1 freq
'press - 1 freq
prose' - 1 freq
perrs - 1 freq
porres - 1 freq
pryss - 2 freq
pareis - 1 freq
€œprees - 1 freq
pairris - 2 freq
pouer's - 1 freq
pearcey - 96 freq
pearce - 4 freq
€˜pearcey - 3 freq
peeries - 2 freq
pricey - 4 freq
peirs - 1 freq
€œpraise - 1 freq
pers - 1 freq
prey's - 1 freq
prosi - 1 freq
prezzo - 2 freq
piracy - 1 freq
piarais - 2 freq
prso - 1 freq
press” - 1 freq
prossie - 1 freq
preas - 1 freq
preasa - 1 freq
'preasa' - 1 freq
prezzie - 1 freq
PURSE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.206699 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 - 0.355672 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 - 0.027780 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 - 0.037606 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 - 0.000974 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.