Thanks, I was searching the comments to see if anyone suggested a phonetic variation. The default Linux spelling checker is usually good enough but sometimes I only remember how a word sounds and the close letter variations are clearly wildly incorrect, while asking a search engine or phone is able to figure out exactly the word I mean nearly all of the time.
For example, someone might have mistyped "berry" as "barry" but you don't want to match it against "terry" (both have a levenshtein distance of 1)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone