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Similar words to shired in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
shired (0) - 5 freq
shared (1) - 87 freq
shires (1) - 1 freq
shire (1) - 26 freq
sired (1) - 2 freq
hired (1) - 27 freq
shired' (1) - 1 freq
saired (1) - 7 freq
shird (1) - 1 freq
shived (1) - 1 freq
shred (1) - 1 freq
shaired (1) - 3 freq
shied (1) - 1 freq
shined (1) - 7 freq
shares (2) - 27 freq
paired (2) - 1 freq
shoued (2) - 1 freq
sained (2) - 9 freq
hized (2) - 1 freq
chored (2) - 9 freq
sheared (2) - 6 freq
shies (2) - 1 freq
shiel (2) - 2 freq
whire (2) - 1 freq
thirled (2) - 20 freq
shired (0) - 5 freq
shred (1) - 1 freq
shird (1) - 1 freq
shaired (1) - 3 freq
shared (1) - 87 freq
shied (2) - 1 freq
sheared (2) - 6 freq
ushered (2) - 5 freq
shoured (2) - 1 freq
shard (2) - 2 freq
shined (2) - 7 freq
shived (2) - 1 freq
shires (2) - 1 freq
sired (2) - 2 freq
hired (2) - 27 freq
shired' (2) - 1 freq
saired (2) - 7 freq
shire (2) - 26 freq
seared (3) - 2 freq
smuired (3) - 13 freq
shroud (3) - 10 freq
soured (3) - 1 freq
shuire (3) - 1 freq
stared (3) - 70 freq
shrek (3) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - S630
shroud - 10 freq
sweirt - 37 freq
sort - 310 freq
soared - 6 freq
scared - 45 freq
screed - 32 freq
skreid - 18 freq
scairt - 6 freq
sortae - 19 freq
seurrit - 1 freq
seairt - 1 freq
soart - 47 freq
short - 323 freq
sreat - 1 freq
skirt - 56 freq
shared - 87 freq
skairt - 1 freq
skywart - 1 freq
seawart - 4 freq
sheared - 6 freq
soartae - 14 freq
skeert - 1 freq
shirt - 75 freq
scart - 23 freq
scrowed - 2 freq
swuird - 14 freq
skyrit - 1 freq
swaird - 3 freq
shard - 2 freq
scurrit - 2 freq
sert - 2 freq
screwed - 30 freq
scarred - 15 freq
sword - 107 freq
shirty - 1 freq
squared - 6 freq
scirt - 1 freq
scrat - 31 freq
skyward - 4 freq
sweerty - 1 freq
scoured - 5 freq
soured - 1 freq
soored - 1 freq
swarthy - 1 freq
shrood - 5 freq
scaured - 4 freq
scourit - 2 freq
sirit - 1 freq
seawaird - 1 freq
shooert - 2 freq
squarrt - 1 freq
squirt - 4 freq
scoort - 2 freq
soort - 2 freq
showert - 1 freq
sorta - 6 freq
sweert - 2 freq
swoard - 2 freq
swurd - 5 freq
shoart - 41 freq
shired - 5 freq
scratty - 4 freq
scoored - 3 freq
screwit - 2 freq
shred - 1 freq
sort' - 1 freq
scaredy - 1 freq
sard - 3 freq
scurried - 5 freq
shrewd - 2 freq
scored - 41 freq
scort - 1 freq
shird - 1 freq
serred - 9 freq
saired - 7 freq
shore-heid - 1 freq
'sort - 3 freq
'shorty' - 1 freq
swoord - 4 freq
sairt - 2 freq
shoured - 1 freq
skrit - 6 freq
skurt - 4 freq
scrit - 6 freq
swart - 2 freq
soar'd - 1 freq
schort - 5 freq
scar'd - 1 freq
skreed - 1 freq
seared - 2 freq
skord - 1 freq
shaired - 3 freq
swoert - 1 freq
sawrd - 1 freq
skart - 2 freq
scaird - 1 freq
swerd - 1 freq
skurried - 1 freq
seawird - 1 freq
shoard - 4 freq
skrythe - 1 freq
sair't - 1 freq
screid - 8 freq
scaurt - 2 freq
suretie - 2 freq
souerte - 2 freq
souertie - 1 freq
skared - 1 freq
skaired - 6 freq
'sweirtie - 1 freq
'soared - 1 freq
skyward' - 1 freq
seward - 2 freq
sorti - 2 freq
sired - 2 freq
schorit - 1 freq
sorrit - 4 freq
sweirit - 1 freq
sharet - 3 freq
serried - 1 freq
sortie - 2 freq
serd - 1 freq
sweirtie - 2 freq
skewered - 2 freq
scurred - 2 freq
shooered - 3 freq
€˜short - 1 freq
shurt - 1 freq
skyred - 1 freq
shaerd - 2 freq
“saired” - 1 freq
sored - 1 freq
sorto - 1 freq
shired' - 1 freq
saraita - 1 freq
scored- - 1 freq
scrote - 1 freq
sortd - 2 freq
sweared - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - XRT
shroud - 10 freq
cheered - 27 freq
short - 323 freq
shared - 87 freq
sheared - 6 freq
shirt - 75 freq
shard - 2 freq
chord - 11 freq
charity - 41 freq
cheritie - 3 freq
shirty - 1 freq
charade - 2 freq
chairt - 17 freq
shrood - 5 freq
cheerit - 1 freq
charitie - 2 freq
shooert - 2 freq
chariot - 4 freq
cheert - 1 freq
chored - 9 freq
shoart - 41 freq
shired - 5 freq
shred - 1 freq
shrewd - 2 freq
shird - 1 freq
chart - 4 freq
'shorty' - 1 freq
chert - 2 freq
shoured - 1 freq
shaired - 3 freq
chaired - 6 freq
cheriot - 2 freq
shoard - 4 freq
sharet - 3 freq
chard - 1 freq
chairity - 3 freq
chairiot - 2 freq
shooered - 3 freq
€˜short - 1 freq
shurt - 1 freq
charred - 1 freq
shaerd - 2 freq
shired' - 1 freq
chord' - 1 freq
charaid - 1 freq
SHIRED
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.188126 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 - 0.356319 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 - 0.029356 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 - 0.039671 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 - 0.000942 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.