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Similar words to what-wey in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
what-wey (0) - 4 freq
whitwey (2) - 21 freq
whirwey (3) - 1 freq
whateer (3) - 2 freq
whatever (3) - 57 freq
road-wey (3) - 1 freq
what've (3) - 1 freq
whitley (3) - 1 freq
that-wis (3) - 1 freq
whatten (3) - 1 freq
hauf-wey (3) - 4 freq
whitey (3) - 4 freq
pathwey (3) - 6 freq
whativer (3) - 15 freq
haufwey (3) - 14 freq
hallwey (3) - 7 freq
half-wey (3) - 1 freq
whather (3) - 15 freq
twa-wey (3) - 6 freq
whut-wye (3) - 1 freq
aw-wey (3) - 2 freq
whate'er (3) - 3 freq
whytey (3) - 3 freq
whase (4) - 142 freq
halfway (4) - 7 freq
what-wey (0) - 4 freq
whut-wye (3) - 1 freq
whitwey (3) - 21 freq
whirwey (5) - 1 freq
whather (5) - 15 freq
whativer (5) - 15 freq
whate'er (5) - 3 freq
whytey (5) - 3 freq
woot-woo (5) - 2 freq
white-ies (5) - 1 freq
whitey (5) - 4 freq
aw-wey (5) - 2 freq
whitley (5) - 1 freq
what've (5) - 1 freq
whateer (5) - 2 freq
whatever (5) - 57 freq
whatten (5) - 1 freq
that-wis (5) - 1 freq
hauf-wey (5) - 4 freq
whither (6) - 134 freq
whiteen (6) - 7 freq
wa-t-er (6) - 2 freq
shut-eye (6) - 1 freq
whit've (6) - 5 freq
whitelet (6) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - W300
'whit - 287 freq
whit - 7082 freq
wid - 3772 freq
white - 961 freq
with - 880 freq
weet - 290 freq
what - 1755 freq
we'd - 272 freq
wait - 481 freq
wioot - 208 freq
wha'd - 51 freq
wide - 249 freq
widd - 69 freq
'wid - 9 freq
wi't - 59 freq
wad - 2263 freq
wyde - 11 freq
widdae - 1 freq
wet - 107 freq
who'd - 17 freq
wid- - 2 freq
whit'd - 2 freq
'whit' - 3 freq
wheet - 3 freq
woud - 5 freq
wit - 210 freq
wuid - 454 freq
wed - 22 freq
wade - 9 freq
wida - 5 freq
'wit - 18 freq
'what - 26 freq
widae - 2 freq
wi't' - 1 freq
wede - 10 freq
wyte - 84 freq
'wad - 5 freq
widdie - 20 freq
'we'd - 8 freq
weed - 21 freq
wat - 52 freq
whyte - 24 freq
wood - 67 freq
whytey - 3 freq
why'd - 1 freq
'wait - 6 freq
wi'oot - 125 freq
wud - 576 freq
whau'd - 1 freq
widaa - 1 freq
whit' - 4 freq
whitwey - 21 freq
wyt - 2 freq
what-wey - 4 freq
widda - 36 freq
wheat - 30 freq
wyed'ye - 1 freq
whae'd - 9 freq
woad - 1 freq
wite - 3 freq
whaut - 12 freq
wat' - 1 freq
«wat - 1 freq
weedow - 2 freq
waut - 1 freq
wete - 1 freq
weat - 1 freq
widow - 13 freq
wut - 26 freq
woot - 1 freq
'widow - 1 freq
wuddie - 1 freq
wittie - 1 freq
wooit - 1 freq
wuttie - 2 freq
'wioot - 2 freq
wuty - 14 freq
weid - 7 freq
waad - 1 freq
weyt - 3 freq
wi'it - 2 freq
wety - 4 freq
widdy - 3 freq
we'dda - 1 freq
weedy - 3 freq
wi-oot - 4 freq
whitey - 4 freq
wt - 5 freq
witt - 2 freq
whut - 530 freq
weeda - 25 freq
wud'a - 1 freq
waa'd - 2 freq
wattie - 24 freq
w'it - 1 freq
waeoot - 30 freq
wu'd - 1 freq
white' - 1 freq
wi'd - 37 freq
wutty - 1 freq
woth - 1 freq
wood- - 2 freq
wada - 1 freq
waid - 1 freq
'wot - 1 freq
wot - 4 freq
widyi - 21 freq
wootwooo - 3 freq
woot-woo - 2 freq
widy - 6 freq
widdyi - 1 freq
wee-et - 1 freq
wide-o - 3 freq
widyou - 1 freq
whad - 3 freq
'whut - 5 freq
'wud - 3 freq
°whut - 1 freq
wae'd - 2 freq
wi'the - 1 freq
we'ed - 1 freq
wi''t - 1 freq
wide-oh - 2 freq
witty - 6 freq
wheat' - 1 freq
watt - 27 freq
whet - 13 freq
weedoo - 1 freq
wad'a - 4 freq
'with - 1 freq
wd - 6 freq
wi''oot - 2 freq
wéit - 1 freq
wudd - 3 freq
whyt - 12 freq
whid - 1 freq
wiout - 16 freq
waith - 2 freq
wait' - 1 freq
witd - 1 freq
wie'it - 1 freq
waet - 3 freq
whiteha - 1 freq
width - 6 freq
woodie - 1 freq
wt' - 1 freq
wit' - 2 freq
wiet - 2 freq
whyde - 1 freq
wee'd - 2 freq
'---what - 1 freq
weidae - 2 freq
whiet - 1 freq
'white - 2 freq
waithe - 1 freq
weetie - 1 freq
watty - 1 freq
weht - 1 freq
weedae - 10 freq
wuidie - 2 freq
whit - 82 freq
wad - 1 freq
wyth - 1 freq
what - 16 freq
'wood' - 1 freq
wido - 2 freq
what - 35 freq
whit - 90 freq
wad - 1 freq
whitwey - 2 freq
wuid - 4 freq
whitwey - 6 freq
wyed - 2 freq
weety - 2 freq
weit - 6 freq
weitie - 1 freq
wutt - 1 freq
waw-heid - 1 freq
wid - 5 freq
wod - 2 freq
wad - 6 freq
white - 1 freq
whit - 1 freq
with - 1 freq
wit'd - 1 freq
wit - 3 freq
wid - 3 freq
wiida - 1 freq
whoat - 6 freq
wud - 1 freq
wode - 4 freq
woody - 1 freq
what - 1 freq
wedd - 1 freq
wit - 1 freq
whiiiiit - 1 freq
wait - 2 freq
waeout - 1 freq
whitey - 1 freq
whoot - 1 freq
whut-wye - 1 freq
'what-d'you - 1 freq
with - 2 freq
wid - 1 freq
what'd - 1 freq
w't - 1 freq
wawed - 1 freq
watt - 1 freq
wut - 1 freq
wait - 5 freq
wahidu - 2 freq
wahidu - 4 freq
we'd - 1 freq
wuidy - 1 freq
wit - 1 freq
wuddy - 1 freq
wud - 1 freq
wudda - 2 freq
what - 2 freq
wowed - 1 freq
what - 11 freq
wait - 1 freq
watew - 2 freq
wwdh - 1 freq
wdyou - 1 freq
wodw - 1 freq
‘what - 1 freq
weeit - 1 freq
weeet - 1 freq
we’d - 3 freq
wtt - 1 freq
“whit - 3 freq
wth - 1 freq
waowdy - 1 freq
”whit - 1 freq
wouddae - 1 freq
whot - 1 freq
waa-heid - 1 freq
weawt - 1 freq
wdho - 1 freq
waty - 1 freq
wooda - 10 freq
‘waeoot’ - 1 freq
‘whit - 1 freq
weoot - 1 freq
whaaaaaaat - 1 freq
who’d - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - WTW
whitwey - 21 freq
what-wey - 4 freq
wootwooo - 3 freq
woot-woo - 2 freq
whitwey - 2 freq
whitwey - 6 freq
WHAT-WEY
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.261718 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 - 0.456091 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 - 0.028210 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 - 0.037442 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 - 0.000907 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.