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Similar words to wlo in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
wlo (0) - 1 freq
wyo (1) - 1 freq
wly (1) - 2 freq
wle (1) - 1 freq
woo (1) - 19 freq
elo (1) - 2 freq
wll (1) - 1 freq
wls (1) - 1 freq
alo (1) - 1 freq
clo (1) - 1 freq
wlk (1) - 1 freq
vlo (1) - 1 freq
blo (1) - 2 freq
zlo (1) - 1 freq
who (1) - 1084 freq
slo (1) - 4 freq
wao (1) - 1 freq
wo (1) - 2 freq
flo (1) - 7 freq
wl (1) - 6 freq
lo (1) - 32 freq
wld (1) - 1 freq
wjz (2) - 2 freq
hle (2) - 1 freq
'log (2) - 1 freq
wlo (0) - 1 freq
wly (1) - 2 freq
wle (1) - 1 freq
wl (1) - 6 freq
wul (2) - 318 freq
wal (2) - 24 freq
wile (2) - 164 freq
wuly (2) - 15 freq
wld (2) - 1 freq
wily (2) - 7 freq
waly (2) - 27 freq
wuli (2) - 1 freq
wyle (2) - 5 freq
owl (2) - 61 freq
wool (2) - 31 freq
wely (2) - 1 freq
wali (2) - 1 freq
lo (2) - 32 freq
awly (2) - 4 freq
wale (2) - 34 freq
wil (2) - 13 freq
flo (2) - 7 freq
vlo (2) - 1 freq
wll (2) - 1 freq
wlk (2) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - W400
weel - 3975 freq
while - 1458 freq
'weel - 225 freq
will - 3306 freq
whilie - 87 freq
we'll - 575 freq
waul - 1 freq
'will - 25 freq
wha'll - 29 freq
'we'll - 46 freq
wull - 1174 freq
willie - 197 freq
wul - 318 freq
weill - 378 freq
we'l - 7 freq
well - 1429 freq
whole - 191 freq
'well - 57 freq
-well - 2 freq
well-ah - 1 freq
well- - 2 freq
who'll - 6 freq
wheel - 127 freq
wheelie - 13 freq
wall - 79 freq
wullie - 422 freq
wali - 1 freq
'weill - 11 freq
wll - 1 freq
waal - 45 freq
whae'll - 7 freq
-weel - 1 freq
wl - 6 freq
wall- - 1 freq
'wull - 2 freq
'weel' - 3 freq
wail - 9 freq
weil - 141 freq
whill - 13 freq
whyle - 49 freq
while-o - 3 freq
wally - 48 freq
whaul - 2 freq
wi'll - 33 freq
wawly - 1 freq
whiley - 12 freq
woolly - 9 freq
wyllie - 5 freq
whae'lll - 1 freq
wallie - 25 freq
wallow - 4 freq
wily - 7 freq
willow - 15 freq
weell' - 2 freq
wool - 31 freq
wae'll - 14 freq
wal - 24 freq
wile - 164 freq
wale - 34 freq
wylie - 4 freq
whale - 32 freq
wuly - 15 freq
weyl - 1 freq
wil - 13 freq
wooly - 7 freq
wely - 1 freq
weliy - 1 freq
we'el - 5 freq
woohooool - 1 freq
wly - 2 freq
whul - 1 freq
whylie - 15 freq
willy - 12 freq
'willy - 1 freq
weal - 8 freq
waal- - 1 freq
waell - 1 freq
waullie - 2 freq
wille - 1 freq
wully - 127 freq
wuil - 1 freq
wwhile - 1 freq
wuill - 1 freq
willl - 1 freq
wullhie - 1 freq
wal' - 1 freq
wul' - 1 freq
wull' - 2 freq
'wall' - 1 freq
'willie - 1 freq
waly - 27 freq
willae - 2 freq
wal- - 1 freq
will'a - 1 freq
'wall - 1 freq
willow' - 1 freq
wullie' - 3 freq
whall - 1 freq
w-will - 1 freq
'weel-' - 1 freq
whyllie - 5 freq
wheel'll - 1 freq
welly - 5 freq
waall - 1 freq
wiel - 1 freq
willa - 3 freq
will' - 2 freq
whaal - 2 freq
wael - 9 freq
weeel - 3 freq
whillywha - 1 freq
wulllie - 1 freq
weelie - 3 freq
wyle - 5 freq
while' - 1 freq
wellie - 2 freq
'wool' - 1 freq
wuli - 1 freq
waley - 6 freq
'while - 1 freq
'weill' - 1 freq
whillie - 2 freq
€˜weel - 29 freq
€œwill - 10 freq
€˜wull - 1 freq
€œweel - 34 freq
wyll - 2 freq
€˜weill - 1 freq
€œwei-ll - 1 freq
€œweill - 35 freq
weell - 1 freq
€¦weel - 1 freq
whele - 1 freq
€œwul - 2 freq
€œwhyle - 1 freq
wholly - 3 freq
woll - 1 freq
€˜wul - 1 freq
€œwull - 2 freq
€œwell - 25 freq
€˜while - 1 freq
€œwha'll - 4 freq
'will' - 1 freq
€˜well - 14 freq
€˜will - 3 freq
€œwullie - 2 freq
€œweeeel - 1 freq
wu'll - 4 freq
weil- - 1 freq
€œwe'll - 7 freq
€œwe-ell - 2 freq
€”well - 1 freq
w'll - 6 freq
wiley - 1 freq
walee - 1 freq
€™well - 9 freq
€™will - 1 freq
wle - 1 freq
weÂ’ll - 19 freq
weel- - 1 freq
‘well - 1 freq
‘weel - 1 freq
woolie - 1 freq
wullieÂ’ - 1 freq
whl - 1 freq
williew - 1 freq
wooley - 2 freq
walie - 1 freq
wally' - 1 freq
wlo - 1 freq
“weel - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - L
lee - 155 freq
lay - 386 freq
lea - 155 freq
l - 178 freq
law - 295 freq
'll - 85 freq
low - 214 freq
lie - 262 freq
lou - 31 freq
yl - 4 freq
ll - 69 freq
la - 116 freq
loo - 29 freq
li - 21 freq
lue - 5 freq
leo - 7 freq
wll - 1 freq
lae - 28 freq
wl - 6 freq
le - 53 freq
y'll - 3 freq
hle - 1 freq
'la - 4 freq
lui - 2 freq
wyllie - 5 freq
hwyl - 1 freq
law' - 2 freq
'lea - 6 freq
wylie - 4 freq
'lay - 1 freq
lew - 5 freq
laa - 114 freq
hyll - 1 freq
lo - 32 freq
wly - 2 freq
'lll - 1 freq
louie - 4 freq
ley - 3 freq
leh - 3 freq
lu - 17 freq
ly - 7 freq
lah - 1 freq
leia - 1 freq
ïll - 51 freq
hïll - 7 freq
ïlle - 1 freq
lee' - 1 freq
lieu - 2 freq
'loo - 1 freq
hl - 1 freq
'l - 5 freq
leah - 1 freq
'loo' - 1 freq
lle - 1 freq
lö - 3 freq
læ - 2 freq
laow - 1 freq
y'ill - 1 freq
lll - 3 freq
wyle - 5 freq
lao - 3 freq
yøl - 2 freq
ªla - 2 freq
-ly - 1 freq
yöl - 1 freq
loe - 15 freq
yle - 2 freq
€™ll - 1167 freq
“lla - 1 freq
€™l - 85 freq
€˜la - 4 freq
hóli - 1 freq
lo'e - 16 freq
wyll - 2 freq
loue - 1 freq
lei - 1 freq
€™le - 4 freq
€˜law - 1 freq
€œl - 3 freq
€™'ll - 1 freq
lá - 1 freq
€˜ll - 1 freq
€˜lea - 1 freq
€™ly - 4 freq
€œlea - 3 freq
€œlll - 1 freq
lea' - 1 freq
y'lll - 1 freq
€Ÿll - 2 freq
€™lly - 2 freq
w'll - 6 freq
¡Ã¦l - 1 freq
ªl - 1 freq
lw - 8 freq
loÂ’e - 1 freq
loui - 1 freq
wle - 1 freq
yÂ’il - 1 freq
y'il - 2 freq
y'all - 1 freq
lau - 1 freq
le'e - 1 freq
y-l - 1 freq
hlai - 1 freq
hly - 1 freq
wlo - 1 freq
lyh - 1 freq
lh - 1 freq
WLO
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.185522 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 - 0.348999 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 - 0.028552 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 - 0.038705 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 - 0.000857 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.