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Similar words to yw in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
yw (0) - 3 freq
yew (1) - 2 freq
ye (1) - 20880 freq
vw (1) - 3 freq
yf (1) - 4 freq
dw (1) - 4 freq
ywf (1) - 1 freq
jw (1) - 4 freq
yn (1) - 6 freq
mw (1) - 2 freq
yrw (1) - 1 freq
w (1) - 190 freq
fw (1) - 3 freq
yx (1) - 2 freq
ywo (1) - 1 freq
yt (1) - 12 freq
yv (1) - 1 freq
yr (1) - 16 freq
tw (1) - 6 freq
ow (1) - 12 freq
xw (1) - 4 freq
ww (1) - 12 freq
ayw (1) - 1 freq
rw (1) - 33 freq
yc (1) - 4 freq
yw (0) - 3 freq
ywo (1) - 1 freq
w (1) - 190 freq
uyw (1) - 1 freq
ow (1) - 12 freq
yow (1) - 48 freq
ayw (1) - 1 freq
uw (1) - 6 freq
ew (1) - 5 freq
yew (1) - 2 freq
iw (1) - 2 freq
aw (1) - 8237 freq
yaw (1) - 1 freq
yk (2) - 3 freq
yi (2) - 1223 freq
wyo (2) - 1 freq
uew (2) - 1 freq
awo (2) - 1 freq
yu (2) - 40 freq
lw (2) - 8 freq
yp (2) - 4 freq
zw (2) - 2 freq
iaw (2) - 1 freq
'w (2) - 2 freq
yg (2) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - Y000
ye - 20880 freq
you - 6601 freq
'ye - 198 freq
yu - 40 freq
y - 155 freq
'you - 91 freq
you' - 8 freq
yae - 1059 freq
ya - 481 freq
ye-aw - 1 freq
ye-ah - 1 freq
'ya - 16 freq
ye' - 28 freq
yi - 1223 freq
ya-' - 1 freq
'y - 1 freq
yowe - 53 freq
ye-aa - 1 freq
'y-y-you - 1 freq
yoy - 3 freq
'you' - 6 freq
'yi - 9 freq
yaw - 1 freq
yea - 129 freq
yahoo - 5 freq
yee - 19 freq
yoo - 14 freq
yaa - 2 freq
yeee - 1 freq
yaahoo - 3 freq
'yaahoo - 1 freq
yaaaaahooooo - 1 freq
yawhoo - 1 freq
yeehoo - 1 freq
yooaa - 1 freq
'ye' - 1 freq
yaaa - 2 freq
yeh - 7 freq
yeah - 58 freq
yew - 2 freq
yiy - 2 freq
yah - 3 freq
yoohoo - 2 freq
yey - 2 freq
yow - 48 freq
yo-yo - 4 freq
'yae - 2 freq
yae' - 1 freq
yw - 3 freq
yowe' - 1 freq
yowie - 1 freq
'yeah - 1 freq
'y' - 2 freq
yoe - 4 freq
yo-ho-ho - 1 freq
'yo - 1 freq
yo - 15 freq
ye'y - 1 freq
ye- - 1 freq
ye'i - 1 freq
-y - 6 freq
yhe - 1 freq
yaeh - 1 freq
yaeh - 1 freq
ye - 17 freq
ye - 62 freq
ye - 168 freq
you - 73 freq
you - 39 freq
Ðy - 3 freq
yi - 4 freq
ye - 2 freq
ya - 2 freq
yae - 4 freq
yeah - 3 freq
yih - 4 freq
yuh - 9 freq
ya - 4 freq
y - 2 freq
y - 3 freq
ya - 3 freq
ye-ho - 1 freq
y - 7 freq
yae - 4 freq
yi' - 8 freq
yao - 5 freq
yeah - 2 freq
you - 16 freq
ye - 1 freq
yea - 2 freq
'ya' - 1 freq
yh - 2 freq
yay - 6 freq
ye’ - 3 freq
“ye - 2 freq
yahoooooo - 1 freq
yaho - 1 freq
yeeoooooooo - 1 freq
yeooooooo - 1 freq
yeooooooooo - 1 freq
‘ye - 2 freq
‘you - 2 freq
“you - 1 freq
you’ - 1 freq
yue - 1 freq
yeehah - 1 freq
you” - 1 freq
yeay - 1 freq
yye - 2 freq
yeehaw - 1 freq
yy - 1 freq
ywo - 1 freq
y-o - 1 freq
MetaPhone code -
' - 11625 freq
- - 14306 freq
y - 155 freq
'' - 36 freq
w - 190 freq
© - 53 freq
° - 42 freq
£ - 313 freq
à - 2 freq
hy - 5 freq
« - 5 freq
'y - 1 freq
'- - 2 freq
h - 258 freq
-- - 7 freq
-' - 2 freq
¢ - 4 freq
® - 12 freq
- 17 freq
'w - 2 freq
© - 2 freq
° - 2 freq
www - 176 freq
wwii - 1 freq
é - 3 freq
yw - 3 freq
°° - 3 freq
°© - 1 freq
®° - 1 freq
''' - 1 freq
wy - 11 freq
¥ - 3 freq
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'þ' - 1 freq
ð - 3 freq
' - 1 freq
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'y' - 2 freq
- 2 freq
'ö' - 2 freq
ww - 12 freq
- 2 freq
§ - 1 freq
- 3 freq
æ - 2 freq
'ø' - 1 freq
Æ - 2 freq
¾ - 1 freq
- 3 freq
w' - 1 freq
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¼ - 1 freq
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ø - 11 freq
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-y - 6 freq
á - 4 freq
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þæ - 2 freq
½ - 1 freq
þú - 1 freq
wyé - 1 freq
è - 1 freq
híe - 1 freq
- 1422 freq
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- 58 freq
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· - 32 freq
ü - 2 freq
Ðy - 3 freq
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- - 1 freq
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w - 2 freq
- - 1 freq
wwww - 1 freq
- 1 freq
y - 2 freq
y - 3 freq
Ð - 1 freq
Ó - 2 freq
' - 6 freq
y - 7 freq
- - 1 freq
ö - 6 freq
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ç - 2 freq
” - 59 freq
yh - 2 freq
hw - 1 freq
‘ - 18 freq
– - 30 freq
“ - 13 freq
wwi - 1 freq
’ - 17 freq
hh - 3 freq
¯ - 12 freq
wwiii - 1 freq
— - 2 freq
hhy - 1 freq
–’ - 1 freq
hhoh - 1 freq
wwa - 2 freq
hyyh - 1 freq
yye - 2 freq
'h' - 1 freq
yy - 1 freq
… - 4 freq
y-o - 1 freq
YW
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.176709 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 - 0.311612 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 - 0.030892 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 - 0.037157 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 - 0.000916 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.