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Similar words to workins in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
workins (0) - 4 freq
workin (1) - 185 freq
workies (1) - 1 freq
workings (1) - 1 freq
wirkins (1) - 7 freq
forkins (1) - 1 freq
workin' (1) - 3 freq
working (1) - 65 freq
warkins (1) - 1 freq
work's (2) - 4 freq
warkin (2) - 157 freq
worken (2) - 1 freq
wurkin' (2) - 3 freq
'working (2) - 1 freq
worryins (2) - 1 freq
gerkins (2) - 1 freq
norlins (2) - 1 freq
watkins (2) - 12 freq
wirdins (2) - 1 freq
sookins (2) - 1 freq
wirkin (2) - 160 freq
forkin (2) - 7 freq
firkins (2) - 2 freq
wurking (2) - 1 freq
worries (2) - 63 freq
workins (0) - 4 freq
wirkins (1) - 7 freq
warkins (1) - 1 freq
workin (2) - 185 freq
workin' (2) - 3 freq
working (2) - 65 freq
forkins (2) - 1 freq
workings (2) - 1 freq
workies (2) - 1 freq
wurkin (3) - 22 freq
wirking (3) - 4 freq
warking (3) - 1 freq
parkins (3) - 1 freq
warnins (3) - 5 freq
wurkirs (3) - 1 freq
merkins (3) - 1 freq
werkin (3) - 2 freq
workn (3) - 1 freq
works (3) - 121 freq
mirkins (3) - 1 freq
wirkeens (3) - 1 freq
workan (3) - 9 freq
wilkins (3) - 1 freq
wirkin (3) - 160 freq
workers (3) - 34 freq
SoundEx code - W625
warkin - 157 freq
wirkin - 160 freq
werkin - 2 freq
workin - 185 freq
working - 65 freq
worrysome - 1 freq
worsent - 1 freq
workins - 4 freq
worsenin - 1 freq
wreckin - 3 freq
workmen - 2 freq
wurkin - 22 freq
workmanship - 3 freq
workan - 9 freq
wurkin''s - 1 freq
wurkin' - 3 freq
worken - 1 freq
wurken - 8 freq
warkin' - 2 freq
workings - 1 freq
wrackin - 6 freq
work'n - 1 freq
wirkin' - 4 freq
warking - 1 freq
wearisome - 10 freq
workin-class - 1 freq
wurkin-class - 4 freq
working' - 1 freq
warkmates - 1 freq
workin' - 3 freq
wurkmen - 1 freq
workmates - 2 freq
wirkan - 12 freq
wirkeens - 1 freq
warkin-hunnér - 1 freq
wirkmaan - 1 freq
wurkan - 2 freq
waarkin - 20 freq
wrekin - 1 freq
warsang - 1 freq
wershness - 3 freq
wirkin-cless - 6 freq
wirking - 4 freq
war-gemmes - 1 freq
wirkmen - 1 freq
warkins - 1 freq
wirriesome - 1 freq
'working - 1 freq
wirkins - 7 freq
wurking - 1 freq
wirking-cless - 1 freq
€œworking - 1 freq
work-in - 1 freq
€˜workin - 1 freq
worsen - 1 freq
warasin - 1 freq
wry-smilin' - 1 freq
workmate - 1 freq
worrisome - 1 freq
wrecking - 1 freq
workminship - 1 freq
workn - 1 freq
wheresmabuntin - 1 freq
workman - 1 freq
wheresmybook - 1 freq
workingclass - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - WRKNS
workins - 4 freq
wurkin''s - 1 freq
wirkeens - 1 freq
warkins - 1 freq
wirkins - 7 freq
WORKINS
wark - 903 freq
work - 674 freq
warkin - 157 freq
warks - 132 freq
warkers - 43 freq
warkit - 23 freq
warked - 23 freq
warkt - 11 freq
warkplace - 5 freq
warker - 7 freq
warkshops - 5 freq
warkshop - 1 freq
wark's - 4 freq
warkshoaps - 2 freq
wark' - 2 freq
work - 674 freq
workin - 185 freq
worked - 149 freq
works - 121 freq
working - 65 freq
workers - 34 freq
workshop - 21 freq
worker - 24 freq
workit - 22 freq
workan - 9 freq
workshops - 5 freq
workable - 3 freq
workin - 185 freq
workins - 4 freq
worksheet - 2 freq
workmates - 2 freq
workers' - 3 freq
workt - 5 freq
worket - 3 freq
worktop - 2 freq
workforce - 2 freq
workplace - 2 freq
workload - 2 freq
workman - 1 freq
workingclass - 1 freq
workminship - 1 freq
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.258439 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 - 0.624298 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 - 0.067337 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 - 0.041678 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 - 0.001143 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.