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Similar words to colair in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
colair (0) - 1 freq
clair (1) - 56 freq
clairt (2) - 5 freq
cair (2) - 3 freq
calais (2) - 1 freq
claer (2) - 22 freq
coli (2) - 1 freq
collin (2) - 2 freq
claim (2) - 80 freq
cobain (2) - 1 freq
cola (2) - 10 freq
claik (2) - 24 freq
claire (2) - 10 freq
blair (2) - 62 freq
claie (2) - 1 freq
colmer (2) - 1 freq
solaid (2) - 4 freq
clain (2) - 13 freq
colour (2) - 259 freq
compair (2) - 1 freq
colvin (2) - 1 freq
clais (2) - 2 freq
collar (2) - 72 freq
collie (2) - 27 freq
coar (2) - 3 freq
colair (0) - 1 freq
clair (1) - 56 freq
colour (2) - 259 freq
claire (2) - 10 freq
color (2) - 2 freq
cleir (2) - 3 freq
claer (2) - 22 freq
coli (3) - 1 freq
lair (3) - 58 freq
chair (3) - 219 freq
cloor (3) - 3 freq
flair (3) - 398 freq
cler (3) - 1 freq
colic (3) - 4 freq
colin (3) - 63 freq
cleer (3) - 6 freq
colas (3) - 1 freq
caler (3) - 1 freq
couler (3) - 1 freq
calor (3) - 2 freq
culor (3) - 1 freq
cleire (3) - 1 freq
claure (3) - 4 freq
coloure (3) - 1 freq
ocular (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - C460
clear - 492 freq
caller - 80 freq
collar - 72 freq
clair - 56 freq
colour - 259 freq
calor - 2 freq
cellar - 26 freq
claer - 22 freq
color - 2 freq
cooler - 12 freq
caaler - 1 freq
clooer - 2 freq
clour - 1 freq
clara - 9 freq
'clear - 1 freq
'clure - 1 freq
clure - 1 freq
cloor - 3 freq
cleer - 6 freq
coloure - 1 freq
clere - 3 freq
culure - 1 freq
coulour - 1 freq
claire - 10 freq
caleery - 2 freq
callar - 4 freq
clarry - 2 freq
calorie - 1 freq
colliery - 3 freq
celery - 5 freq
chillier - 1 freq
'claire' - 1 freq
cullour - 6 freq
culur - 3 freq
clare - 12 freq
cleary - 1 freq
cleir - 3 freq
colour' - 1 freq
cler - 1 freq
collier - 2 freq
cleire - 1 freq
culor - 1 freq
cullar - 1 freq
couler - 1 freq
culler - 1 freq
€œcaller - 1 freq
caler - 1 freq
cllr - 3 freq
callier - 1 freq
claure - 4 freq
colair - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KLR
clear - 492 freq
glaur - 101 freq
caller - 80 freq
goller - 7 freq
collar - 72 freq
gallery - 23 freq
clair - 56 freq
colour - 259 freq
glaurie - 7 freq
glore - 5 freq
calor - 2 freq
glory - 92 freq
killer - 23 freq
claer - 22 freq
color - 2 freq
cooler - 12 freq
galore - 23 freq
caaler - 1 freq
keller - 1 freq
clooer - 2 freq
clour - 1 freq
clara - 9 freq
glare - 15 freq
'clear - 1 freq
'clure - 1 freq
clure - 1 freq
glorie - 32 freq
cloor - 3 freq
cleer - 6 freq
'glory - 3 freq
glar - 7 freq
glarry - 2 freq
coloure - 1 freq
clere - 3 freq
glaury - 14 freq
culure - 1 freq
coulour - 1 freq
claire - 10 freq
caleery - 2 freq
callar - 4 freq
clarry - 2 freq
kilrea - 4 freq
calorie - 1 freq
colliery - 3 freq
'galerie - 1 freq
'galleri - 2 freq
'claire' - 1 freq
cullour - 6 freq
klieir - 1 freq
culur - 3 freq
clare - 12 freq
cleary - 1 freq
cleir - 3 freq
colour' - 1 freq
gaillery - 1 freq
guller - 1 freq
'glory' - 2 freq
glawrie - 10 freq
cler - 1 freq
gloir - 1 freq
collier - 2 freq
gallerie - 1 freq
glowr - 1 freq
glóri - 1 freq
glour - 1 freq
cleire - 1 freq
gahler - 1 freq
culor - 1 freq
€˜glaur - 1 freq
cullar - 1 freq
couler - 1 freq
culler - 1 freq
gleer - 1 freq
€œcaller - 1 freq
caler - 1 freq
cllr - 3 freq
callier - 1 freq
glr - 1 freq
claure - 4 freq
colair - 1 freq
COLAIR
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.573191 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 - 1.491355 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 - 0.103959 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 - 0.187929 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 - 0.000906 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.