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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to fermers in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
fermers (0) - 89 freq
farmers (1) - 4 freq
fermers' (1) - 3 freq
fermer (1) - 194 freq
fermer's (1) - 21 freq
feshers (2) - 1 freq
feelers (2) - 1 freq
merkers (2) - 1 freq
former (2) - 38 freq
termes (2) - 1 freq
festers (2) - 1 freq
femmels (2) - 1 freq
werrers (2) - 1 freq
farmer (2) - 9 freq
fermeen (2) - 1 freq
ferms (2) - 44 freq
ferder (2) - 10 freq
fenders (2) - 1 freq
emmers (2) - 4 freq
fryers (2) - 1 freq
fevers (2) - 1 freq
feckers (2) - 7 freq
firmer (2) - 4 freq
ferrero (2) - 1 freq
hemmers (2) - 1 freq
fermers (0) - 89 freq
farmers (1) - 4 freq
fairmers (2) - 35 freq
fermer's (2) - 21 freq
fermer (2) - 194 freq
fermers' (2) - 3 freq
furders (3) - 1 freq
fryers (3) - 1 freq
firmer (3) - 4 freq
ferm's (3) - 1 freq
ferms (3) - 44 freq
farmer's (3) - 3 freq
forders (3) - 8 freq
ferriers (3) - 1 freq
farmer (3) - 9 freq
former (3) - 38 freq
furms (4) - 9 freq
ferries (4) - 5 freq
murmurs (4) - 2 freq
friars (4) - 4 freq
fairmer (4) - 61 freq
freezers (4) - 1 freq
frames (4) - 18 freq
firm's (4) - 4 freq
forbeirs (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - F656
fermer's - 21 freq
fermer - 194 freq
framework - 7 freq
fairmer - 61 freq
former - 38 freq
ferm-yerd-while - 1 freq
farmers - 4 freq
formerly - 3 freq
fermyaird-while - 1 freq
fairmers - 35 freq
fermers - 89 freq
fermers' - 3 freq
firmer - 4 freq
forwunnert - 3 freq
ferm-worker's - 1 freq
free-mairket - 1 freq
ferm-yard-while - 1 freq
fairm-yerd - 1 freq
fairmers' - 3 freq
fairmer's - 6 freq
forin'er - 1 freq
forriners - 1 freq
fermyaird - 5 freq
fairm-yard-while - 1 freq
framewark - 10 freq
fernyears - 10 freq
fairmer' - 1 freq
forwaunert - 1 freq
farmer - 9 freq
framewaark - 29 freq
framewaark'' - 1 freq
framewaark' - 1 freq
fairmyaird-while - 1 freq
forwannert - 1 freq
fernyeir - 1 freq
fernyear - 5 freq
farmer's - 3 freq
fairmyaird - 4 freq
farmyaird - 1 freq
furriners - 2 freq
foirhaimmer - 1 freq
framewirk - 3 freq
farmyard - 1 freq
furriner - 1 freq
formartine - 1 freq
fermerdavie - 2 freq
furrener - 1 freq
furreners - 1 freq
furraners - 1 freq
fernyear- - 1 freq
fermwarker - 1 freq
farmersweekly - 9 freq
farnorthscot - 2 freq
formartineutd - 1 freq
freenorthnow - 3 freq
MetaPhone code - FRMRS
fermer's - 21 freq
farmers - 4 freq
fairmers - 35 freq
fermers - 89 freq
fermers' - 3 freq
fairmers' - 3 freq
fairmer's - 6 freq
farmer's - 3 freq
FERMERS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.174748 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 - 0.342509 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 - 0.030833 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 - 0.045480 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 - 0.001140 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.