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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to creddle in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
creddle (0) - 1 freq
credle (1) - 1 freq
griddle (2) - 11 freq
heddle (2) - 1 freq
freddie (2) - 23 freq
treadle (2) - 2 freq
credible (2) - 3 freq
credite (2) - 2 freq
reddie (2) - 6 freq
meddle (2) - 9 freq
croodle (2) - 1 freq
riddle (2) - 32 freq
cruddles (2) - 1 freq
cradle (2) - 23 freq
cuddle (2) - 25 freq
areddie (2) - 1 freq
steddle (2) - 1 freq
creole (2) - 1 freq
coddle (2) - 1 freq
sheddle (2) - 1 freq
tweddle (2) - 1 freq
credel (2) - 2 freq
muddle (3) - 9 freq
crete (3) - 14 freq
straddle (3) - 1 freq
creddle (0) - 1 freq
credle (2) - 1 freq
credel (3) - 2 freq
croodle (3) - 1 freq
riddle (3) - 32 freq
cruddles (3) - 1 freq
cuddle (3) - 25 freq
credible (3) - 3 freq
griddle (3) - 11 freq
coddle (3) - 1 freq
craddol (3) - 1 freq
cradle (3) - 23 freq
sheddle (4) - 1 freq
creole (4) - 1 freq
crudely (4) - 3 freq
cuddly (4) - 2 freq
cromdale (4) - 3 freq
tweddle (4) - 1 freq
freddie (4) - 23 freq
steddle (4) - 1 freq
treadle (4) - 2 freq
credite (4) - 2 freq
heddle (4) - 1 freq
areddie (4) - 1 freq
meddle (4) - 9 freq
SoundEx code - C634
cradle - 23 freq
cart-wheels - 2 freq
cradlin - 4 freq
cradled - 7 freq
cooardly - 1 freq
creddle - 1 freq
chortles - 1 freq
cradles - 6 freq
cruddles - 1 freq
crottles - 3 freq
crottle - 7 freq
cordial - 6 freq
cordil - 1 freq
coortlie - 2 freq
crottle-spreckele - 1 freq
croodlin - 5 freq
craitle - 1 freq
credultie - 1 freq
cartilaginous - 1 freq
curdled - 1 freq
cairt-wheels - 1 freq
crottils - 1 freq
cartwheeled - 1 freq
cradlet - 1 freq
croodle - 1 freq
cairtwheeled - 1 freq
chortled - 2 freq
courdie-likk - 1 freq
credel - 2 freq
credle - 1 freq
cooerdly - 1 freq
cartilage - 2 freq
cairt-load - 1 freq
cairtwheel - 1 freq
crytals - 1 freq
couardie-lick - 2 freq
chortle - 1 freq
craddol - 1 freq
coortly - 4 freq
cairtel - 1 freq
cartlands - 1 freq
crudely - 3 freq
cairtwheels - 2 freq
curdling - 1 freq
cowardly - 4 freq
chordal - 1 freq
cordially - 1 freq
cairtloads - 1 freq
cradling - 1 freq
cartwheel - 1 freq
cartwheels - 1 freq
credulity - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KRTL
cradle - 23 freq
grytely - 2 freq
gradually - 17 freq
cooardly - 1 freq
creddle - 1 freq
griddle - 11 freq
crottle - 7 freq
cordial - 6 freq
cordil - 1 freq
coortlie - 2 freq
kirtle - 2 freq
gradual - 6 freq
craitle - 1 freq
gretel - 2 freq
greatly - 10 freq
gretly - 1 freq
croodle - 1 freq
grytlie - 1 freq
credel - 2 freq
credle - 1 freq
cooerdly - 1 freq
'greatly - 1 freq
graddol - 2 freq
craddol - 1 freq
coortly - 4 freq
cairtel - 1 freq
crudely - 3 freq
gardyloo - 1 freq
cordially - 1 freq
greedily - 1 freq
gritlie - 1 freq
graetly - 1 freq
gritly - 1 freq
gardela - 1 freq
CREDDLE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.207440 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 - 0.394794 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 - 0.027587 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 - 0.041366 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 - 0.000842 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.