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Similar words to disease in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
disease (0) - 44 freq
diseases (1) - 8 freq
disease' (1) - 3 freq
diseased (1) - 1 freq
diseases' (2) - 1 freq
dispeace (2) - 1 freq
disaise (2) - 2 freq
dispose (2) - 2 freq
distense (2) - 1 freq
dispare (2) - 1 freq
dismae (2) - 1 freq
dileas (2) - 1 freq
displease (2) - 1 freq
disperse (2) - 3 freq
disnae (2) - 577 freq
distaste (2) - 1 freq
diverse (2) - 24 freq
dissae (2) - 1 freq
diners (3) - 1 freq
disdain (3) - 10 freq
cease (3) - 10 freq
diesel (3) - 6 freq
dinnae (3) - 1921 freq
isnae (3) - 544 freq
lease (3) - 14 freq
disease (0) - 44 freq
disaise (2) - 2 freq
diseases (2) - 8 freq
dissae (2) - 1 freq
diseased (2) - 1 freq
disease' (2) - 3 freq
disays (3) - 1 freq
disnae (3) - 577 freq
doses (3) - 9 freq
dismae (3) - 1 freq
dileas (3) - 1 freq
dispose (3) - 2 freq
daises (3) - 1 freq
daseis (3) - 1 freq
aisse (4) - 4 freq
dishie (4) - 4 freq
distie (4) - 1 freq
desers (4) - 1 freq
dishes (4) - 75 freq
idase (4) - 1 freq
disaises (4) - 5 freq
disused (4) - 1 freq
deas (4) - 1 freq
disna (4) - 397 freq
diets (4) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - D220
dykes - 44 freq
daisies - 20 freq
duchess - 246 freq
dishes - 75 freq
duchess's - 17 freq
dousie's - 1 freq
disco's - 1 freq
dosage - 3 freq
discuss - 23 freq
daises - 1 freq
disease' - 3 freq
disease - 44 freq
disuiss - 1 freq
discos - 6 freq
doggies - 1 freq
dukes - 9 freq
disguise - 14 freq
deyshe's - 1 freq
deishe's - 1 freq
daisy's - 9 freq
disays - 1 freq
dougies - 2 freq
dougie's - 3 freq
dishies - 1 freq
doses - 9 freq
dokes - 3 freq
disaise - 2 freq
de-juice - 2 freq
desses - 1 freq
duke's - 7 freq
dug-wise - 1 freq
djeuks - 2 freq
daiches - 2 freq
dashes - 1 freq
dughoose - 1 freq
deukies - 1 freq
dosses - 2 freq
dyeukies - 3 freq
daseis - 1 freq
dazzies - 1 freq
dookies - 1 freq
dikes - 3 freq
discus - 1 freq
dyce's - 2 freq
dakes - 1 freq
dizzies - 1 freq
dyshes - 1 freq
duskish - 1 freq
dasies - 1 freq
dgozo - 1 freq
dyckes - 1 freq
discussie - 1 freq
dguhhahxq - 1 freq
docsuzy - 1 freq
desax - 1 freq
disuk - 1 freq
ddxuxwy - 1 freq
dthsckuq - 1 freq
dhyxwgkzy - 1 freq
dgwgo - 15 freq
dzyuzj - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TSS
daisies - 20 freq
teases - 6 freq
dousie's - 1 freq
taz's - 3 freq
daises - 1 freq
disease' - 3 freq
disease - 44 freq
disuiss - 1 freq
tosses - 3 freq
daisy's - 9 freq
disays - 1 freq
doses - 9 freq
disaise - 2 freq
desses - 1 freq
tassies - 3 freq
days's - 1 freq
tizes - 1 freq
dosses - 2 freq
daseis - 1 freq
dazzies - 1 freq
dyce's - 2 freq
dizzies - 1 freq
dasies - 1 freq
DISEASE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.191403 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 - 0.345762 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 - 0.027173 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 - 0.036725 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 - 0.000822 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.