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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to battles in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
battles (0) - 26 freq
sattles (1) - 2 freq
tattles (1) - 3 freq
bottles (1) - 115 freq
battled (1) - 2 freq
battlen (1) - 2 freq
boattles (1) - 6 freq
rattles (1) - 9 freq
battle's (1) - 3 freq
brattles (1) - 2 freq
wattles (1) - 1 freq
battle (1) - 125 freq
mittles (2) - 1 freq
kettles (2) - 2 freq
nattled (2) - 1 freq
ettles (2) - 79 freq
chattles (2) - 2 freq
settles (2) - 11 freq
rattled (2) - 32 freq
kittles (2) - 7 freq
batters (2) - 8 freq
wottles (2) - 1 freq
ratties (2) - 2 freq
bales (2) - 17 freq
bottle (2) - 376 freq
battles (0) - 26 freq
boattles (1) - 6 freq
bottles (1) - 115 freq
battels (2) - 1 freq
brattles (2) - 2 freq
battle (2) - 125 freq
battle's (2) - 3 freq
wattles (2) - 1 freq
tattles (2) - 3 freq
rattles (2) - 9 freq
sattles (2) - 2 freq
battled (2) - 2 freq
battlen (2) - 2 freq
vittles (3) - 1 freq
beatties (3) - 1 freq
battens (3) - 2 freq
beetles (3) - 2 freq
baittle (3) - 2 freq
bottils (3) - 1 freq
beatles (3) - 1 freq
battlin (3) - 4 freq
butties (3) - 1 freq
boattils (3) - 1 freq
nettles (3) - 23 freq
boatles (3) - 6 freq
SoundEx code - B342
buitless - 1 freq
bottles - 115 freq
boattles - 6 freq
battles - 26 freq
battle's - 3 freq
battlestone - 3 freq
battleships - 2 freq
bad-lookin - 3 freq
bottle-green - 2 freq
bdilecsx - 1 freq
bet-lick - 1 freq
bottle's - 5 freq
bad-lookin' - 1 freq
boat-holes - 1 freq
boot-legged - 1 freq
beetles - 2 freq
boatels - 1 freq
beadle's - 1 freq
bottils - 1 freq
battailyies - 1 freq
battlesang - 1 freq
bothwell's - 25 freq
bottoals - 1 freq
bowdy-leggit - 1 freq
bedlicht - 1 freq
battleship - 3 freq
bowdie-leggit - 1 freq
body-like - 1 freq
battels - 1 freq
battle-axe - 1 freq
bootleg - 1 freq
boatles - 6 freq
bad-luikin - 1 freq
beatles - 1 freq
€œbootless - 1 freq
betelgeuse - 1 freq
battilgrunds - 1 freq
battleaxe - 1 freq
bedlaes - 1 freq
bottlesogreeb - 1 freq
btls - 1 freq
bottleÂ’s - 1 freq
boattils - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - BTLS
buitless - 1 freq
bottles - 115 freq
boattles - 6 freq
battles - 26 freq
battle's - 3 freq
bottle's - 5 freq
beetles - 2 freq
boatels - 1 freq
beadle's - 1 freq
bottils - 1 freq
bottoals - 1 freq
battels - 1 freq
boatles - 6 freq
beatles - 1 freq
€œbootless - 1 freq
bedlaes - 1 freq
btls - 1 freq
bottleÂ’s - 1 freq
boattils - 1 freq
BATTLES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.266939 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 - 0.602105 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 - 0.036722 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 - 0.061696 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 - 0.000811 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.