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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to clesses in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
clesses (0) - 54 freq
caesses (1) - 2 freq
clessed (1) - 1 freq
classes (1) - 46 freq
closses (1) - 1 freq
glesses (1) - 96 freq
guesses (2) - 6 freq
casses (2) - 1 freq
clessist (2) - 1 freq
classed (2) - 4 freq
lasses (2) - 69 freq
losses (2) - 15 freq
plaesses (2) - 15 freq
klosses (2) - 1 freq
plusses (2) - 1 freq
clessics (2) - 1 freq
lenses (2) - 10 freq
creshes (2) - 1 freq
cheeses (2) - 1 freq
glasses (2) - 23 freq
chessel (2) - 1 freq
clesped (2) - 5 freq
blessed (2) - 53 freq
closse (2) - 1 freq
messes (2) - 1 freq
clesses (0) - 54 freq
closses (1) - 1 freq
classes (1) - 46 freq
caesses (2) - 2 freq
glesses (2) - 96 freq
clessed (2) - 1 freq
plisses (3) - 4 freq
closset (3) - 1 freq
closser (3) - 13 freq
clauses (3) - 4 freq
clossed (3) - 2 freq
blisses (3) - 3 freq
clashes (3) - 2 freq
glosses (3) - 2 freq
class's (3) - 2 freq
caresses (3) - 3 freq
closes (3) - 27 freq
clessic (3) - 5 freq
colossus (3) - 4 freq
cless (3) - 116 freq
ulysses (3) - 1 freq
glessis (3) - 5 freq
clossest (3) - 3 freq
vlisses (3) - 2 freq
classes' (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - C422
claggiest - 2 freq
clish-clash - 1 freq
clesses - 54 freq
classical - 26 freq
closes - 27 freq
classics - 17 freq
colleagues - 25 freq
classes - 46 freq
collogues - 14 freq
classic - 47 freq
cleuchs - 5 freq
closest - 20 freq
cleughs - 3 freq
colossus - 4 freq
classico' - 1 freq
clichés - 3 freq
clessic - 5 freq
calgacus - 3 freq
clashes - 2 freq
clicky's - 9 freq
clossach - 1 freq
cliques - 1 freq
colleges - 4 freq
college's - 2 freq
clessical - 6 freq
closses - 1 freq
collouges - 3 freq
coal-kist - 1 freq
colleague's - 2 freq
claases - 7 freq
clossest - 3 freq
clauses - 4 freq
cailleach's - 1 freq
cailleachs - 1 freq
classes' - 1 freq
celsius - 13 freq
classicus - 1 freq
€˜classic - 2 freq
€˜classical - 1 freq
classically-styled - 1 freq
€˜clessical - 1 freq
calcichew - 1 freq
cloggies - 2 freq
clessics - 1 freq
close-set - 1 freq
calcagus - 1 freq
clessist - 1 freq
clashcityclarky - 66 freq
chelseahaig - 1 freq
classicbritcom - 1 freq
calkaycody - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KLSS
clesses - 54 freq
glesses - 96 freq
closes - 27 freq
classes - 46 freq
glasses - 23 freq
glaises - 2 freq
glaisses - 21 freq
colossus - 4 freq
class's - 2 freq
galluses - 10 freq
glessis - 5 freq
klaus's - 8 freq
closses - 1 freq
claases - 7 freq
clauses - 4 freq
glosses - 2 freq
kloss's - 2 freq
classes' - 1 freq
gallusses - 1 freq
gallusus - 1 freq
glaisÂ’s - 1 freq
qlsws - 1 freq
kelsohs - 1 freq
klosses - 1 freq
CLESSES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.167888 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 - 0.312216 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 - 0.031071 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 - 0.036539 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 - 0.000813 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.