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Similar words to clefs in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
clefs (0) - 1 freq
clefts (1) - 1 freq
clews (1) - 1 freq
cleft (1) - 5 freq
chefs (1) - 1 freq
clegs (1) - 2 freq
cleys (1) - 4 freq
cless (1) - 116 freq
clues (2) - 7 freq
cleat (2) - 1 freq
sles (2) - 1 freq
crews (2) - 4 freq
cleem (2) - 1 freq
clears (2) - 19 freq
plees (2) - 6 freq
crehs (2) - 1 freq
creus (2) - 1 freq
clesh (2) - 1 freq
cler (2) - 1 freq
clene (2) - 3 freq
class (2) - 426 freq
fleys (2) - 1 freq
leus (2) - 1 freq
cleggs (2) - 3 freq
celebs (2) - 4 freq
clefs (0) - 1 freq
cleys (2) - 4 freq
culfs (2) - 2 freq
cluifs (2) - 1 freq
clegs (2) - 2 freq
cless (2) - 116 freq
chefs (2) - 1 freq
clews (2) - 1 freq
cleft (2) - 5 freq
clefts (2) - 1 freq
claas (3) - 29 freq
laefs (3) - 2 freq
chiefs (3) - 9 freq
clims (3) - 1 freq
coafs (3) - 1 freq
leafs (3) - 43 freq
glifs (3) - 1 freq
claus (3) - 17 freq
cleiks (3) - 4 freq
clams (3) - 1 freq
cleuks (3) - 18 freq
cuifs (3) - 1 freq
elfs (3) - 1 freq
claes (3) - 582 freq
clods (3) - 6 freq
SoundEx code - C412
cliffs - 29 freq
cluifs - 1 freq
cleavage - 8 freq
cloves - 4 freq
claps - 4 freq
clapshot - 5 freq
clubs - 102 freq
clips - 9 freq
clubhoose - 1 freq
collapsin - 6 freq
calfies - 4 freq
clubcaird - 1 freq
collapsed - 18 freq
clip--clop - 1 freq
clubby's - 3 freq
calves - 4 freq
cleaves - 1 freq
call-box - 1 freq
collapse - 16 freq
collapses - 1 freq
club's - 5 freq
clipe-clash - 1 freq
clipes - 1 freq
culfs - 2 freq
cleopas - 2 freq
clepsydra-like - 1 freq
collapsan - 1 freq
coalfish - 1 freq
cullybackey - 3 freq
clipshears - 1 freq
coal-backets - 1 freq
calfes - 1 freq
coalie-bag - 1 freq
calfskin - 1 freq
calfie's - 1 freq
calf's - 2 freq
calf-kintra - 2 freq
cliff's - 1 freq
collie-foxin - 1 freq
cleeves - 1 freq
calypso - 1 freq
€˜clubs - 1 freq
collapsing - 1 freq
clefs - 1 freq
clype-clash - 1 freq
collops - 3 freq
ceolbeg - 1 freq
celebs - 4 freq
clvzmej - 1 freq
cullybecky - 1 freq
collieback - 1 freq
celebjuice - 1 freq
colliebuckie - 1 freq
culbokster - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KLFS
cliffs - 29 freq
gloves - 48 freq
cluifs - 1 freq
cloves - 4 freq
gliffs - 6 freq
calfies - 4 freq
cleughs - 3 freq
gluv's - 1 freq
calves - 4 freq
cleaves - 1 freq
culfs - 2 freq
glivs - 13 freq
gluives - 3 freq
calfes - 1 freq
calfie's - 1 freq
calf's - 2 freq
cliff's - 1 freq
cleeves - 1 freq
clefs - 1 freq
glifs - 1 freq
gluvs - 2 freq
CLEFS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.211294 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 - 0.449778 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 - 0.030798 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 - 0.044852 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 - 0.000820 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.