We study the problem of similarity between phrases. To do so, we study three similarity methods. The first one considers the commonalities and differences of the two phrases. The second one is an extension of the well-known Levenshtein-Damerau distance in a word oriented fashion. The third one considers the sequentiality of the phrases and is resistant to phrases with repeated words. Finally, we show an experimental evaluation of our methods in both English and Spanish corpora.