there was a really simple string sort by similarity oneliner I can't find in my history, but the basic idea was to take a wordlist, split each word in half, reverse the halves, concatenate them back together, sort the resulting strings, then flip the strings back to their original words.

this simple shuffle was a poor man's similarity sort that I used to find sound-alike words. the thing about the quality of similarity is that it's hard to know for sure if it worked, but this was sufficient.