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Similar words to pursuance in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
pursuance (0) - 2 freq
pursue (3) - 9 freq
pursuin (3) - 4 freq
persiane (3) - 1 freq
perchance (3) - 3 freq
substance (3) - 14 freq
pursuing (3) - 2 freq
nuisance (3) - 8 freq
prance (3) - 5 freq
persuade (3) - 17 freq
parlance (3) - 2 freq
insurance (4) - 18 freq
persuaded (4) - 8 freq
personae (4) - 1 freq
pushan (4) - 3 freq
cuttance (4) - 7 freq
variance (4) - 2 freq
purpone (4) - 2 freq
susanne (4) - 1 freq
assurance (4) - 6 freq
provence (4) - 1 freq
dunstane (4) - 1 freq
tuscanie (4) - 1 freq
pursuits (4) - 2 freq
pleasance (4) - 3 freq
pursuance (0) - 2 freq
pursuing (4) - 2 freq
presence (4) - 69 freq
persiane (4) - 1 freq
parlance (4) - 2 freq
pursuin (4) - 4 freq
prance (4) - 5 freq
pretence (5) - 10 freq
provence (5) - 1 freq
prence (5) - 1 freq
prudence (5) - 4 freq
prosonice (5) - 2 freq
pravince (5) - 1 freq
praisence (5) - 10 freq
persian (5) - 3 freq
pleasance (5) - 3 freq
prince (5) - 346 freq
nuisance (5) - 8 freq
province (5) - 13 freq
perchance (5) - 3 freq
pursue (5) - 9 freq
persuade (5) - 17 freq
pleisance (5) - 1 freq
personae (5) - 1 freq
plesaunce (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - P625
perjink - 34 freq
preseenter - 1 freq
person - 249 freq
perishin - 2 freq
perishing - 1 freq
present - 213 freq
preachin - 52 freq
praisent - 63 freq
phrasin - 2 freq
praisentation - 6 freq
presentit - 24 freq
pressin - 25 freq
parchment - 10 freq
parchment-scroll - 4 freq
persons - 13 freq
prisoner - 35 freq
prisoner's - 6 freq
presenter - 9 freq
presentin - 5 freq
presuming - 1 freq
percent - 23 freq
prisoners - 24 freq
presence - 69 freq
piercing - 5 freq
percentage - 8 freq
persona - 7 freq
personally - 31 freq
pursuing - 2 freq
preaching - 3 freq
presents - 50 freq
personal - 116 freq
praisant - 2 freq
pairchment - 4 freq
'prognosis' - 1 freq
prison - 27 freq
preezent - 1 freq
prizewinnin - 4 freq
pairkin - 1 freq
presented - 17 freq
presentation - 13 freq
personae - 1 freq
pregnant - 19 freq
parkin - 16 freq
presenters - 7 freq
pragmatic - 5 freq
preek-ma-denry - 1 freq
presumption - 3 freq
prisin - 1 freq
praisently - 2 freq
prismed - 2 freq
present's - 1 freq
pirriesmill's - 1 freq
piercin - 14 freq
praisin - 13 freq
perchance - 3 freq
pairishioners - 1 freq
precentor - 11 freq
pairchments - 1 freq
percentages - 4 freq
proggin - 8 freq
preesin - 1 freq
priggen - 1 freq
proscssien - 1 freq
peerieshen - 1 freq
parken - 1 freq
personality - 23 freq
presumably - 9 freq
parsons - 1 freq
'personal - 1 freq
parkinson's - 2 freq
pursuance - 2 freq
percentit - 1 freq
paragons - 1 freq
'pragmatism' - 1 freq
personnel - 7 freq
proximity - 3 freq
prisons - 1 freq
presentable - 3 freq
piercins - 1 freq
presumed - 1 freq
praichin - 12 freq
prickin - 3 freq
progeny - 3 freq
personality's - 1 freq
priggin - 23 freq
perjinkians - 4 freq
perjinkian - 8 freq
perjinkness - 2 freq
perjink-earth - 1 freq
prison's - 1 freq
praisents - 6 freq
presentations - 3 freq
'present - 1 freq
prussian - 2 freq
personalities - 3 freq
personification - 2 freq
pairsnips - 1 freq
praisence - 10 freq
pairson - 2 freq
persiane - 1 freq
preisioun - 1 freq
preisoner - 3 freq
proxima - 3 freq
prismatic - 1 freq
pressan - 3 freq
pricin - 2 freq
preconceived - 1 freq
pricing - 1 freq
pierceens - 2 freq
person's - 1 freq
prison-cauld - 1 freq
presently - 3 freq
personage - 1 freq
precentor-led - 1 freq
precentor's - 2 freq
preconceptions - 2 freq
preichin - 1 freq
present-day - 2 freq
praesent-day - 1 freq
parchments - 1 freq
proximate - 1 freq
proximal - 1 freq
phrasemes - 3 freq
phraseme - 2 freq
presents- - 1 freq
preeson - 2 freq
preesoner - 3 freq
purging - 1 freq
parkins - 1 freq
preconceptiouns - 1 freq
parozone - 1 freq
personaly - 1 freq
presumpcioun - 2 freq
personis - 3 freq
parishioners - 2 freq
personalises - 1 freq
preisoners - 1 freq
preisonar - 3 freq
preachin-box - 1 freq
praisentit - 8 freq
preiching - 1 freq
persentage - 3 freq
€˜pressmennan - 1 freq
presume - 3 freq
pregnancy - 3 freq
persian - 3 freq
pairsonal - 5 freq
prsent - 1 freq
precenter - 1 freq
preesentation - 1 freq
prognosis - 2 freq
praisentlie - 1 freq
preison - 1 freq
proushian - 1 freq
pairsonnel - 2 freq
prasent - 1 freq
personalitie - 1 freq
preesoners - 4 freq
prison-style - 1 freq
piercan - 1 freq
preson - 1 freq
presons - 1 freq
praisent-day - 1 freq
preseentit - 1 freq
pregnancies - 1 freq
pursuin - 4 freq
presumptuous - 1 freq
parkinson - 1 freq
phorcunos's - 1 freq
pressing - 2 freq
praisentations - 2 freq
praisentin - 1 freq
€œpraisent - 1 freq
parsnips - 1 freq
presumptuously - 1 freq
€˜preesoners - 1 freq
pursin - 1 freq
perussuomalaiset - 1 freq
pre-committin - 1 freq
parsonlees - 1 freq
precum - 1 freq
perconnon - 1 freq
presententin - 1 freq
parking - 9 freq
pircint - 2 freq
peracchm - 2 freq
projchangescot - 1 freq
pragmatism - 1 freq
personalised - 1 freq
‘person’ - 1 freq
piersmorgan - 3 freq
presenting - 3 freq
prosonice - 2 freq
person' - 1 freq
prescience - 1 freq
prism - 2 freq
'parking - 1 freq
presumin - 1 freq
perconte - 1 freq
parkinsons - 2 freq
pearson - 6 freq
MetaPhone code - PRSNS
persons - 13 freq
presence - 69 freq
parsons - 1 freq
pursuance - 2 freq
prisons - 1 freq
piercins - 1 freq
prison's - 1 freq
praisence - 10 freq
pierceens - 2 freq
person's - 1 freq
personis - 3 freq
presons - 1 freq
prosonice - 2 freq
prescience - 1 freq
PURSUANCE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.184448 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 - 0.352506 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 - 0.027692 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 - 0.037419 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 - 0.000960 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.