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Levenshtein Distance

Enter a word to find nearest neighbouring words, for example ahint

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Similar words to finest in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
finest (0) - 59 freq
fines (1) - 7 freq
firnest (1) - 1 freq
fitest (1) - 1 freq
fines' (1) - 1 freq
fynest (1) - 1 freq
jines (2) - 2 freq
fokest (2) - 1 freq
finces (2) - 1 freq
fsnet (2) - 1 freq
fitness (2) - 20 freq
finer (2) - 14 freq
finish (2) - 69 freq
bines (2) - 1 freq
bigest (2) - 1 freq
fest (2) - 54 freq
kindest (2) - 3 freq
ernest (2) - 6 freq
'fines (2) - 1 freq
forest (2) - 117 freq
feinist (2) - 8 freq
fentest (2) - 1 freq
fondest (2) - 1 freq
fivert (2) - 2 freq
fiet (2) - 2 freq
finest (0) - 59 freq
fynest (1) - 1 freq
feinist (2) - 8 freq
fines' (2) - 1 freq
fitest (2) - 1 freq
firnest (2) - 1 freq
fines (2) - 7 freq
fiesta (3) - 3 freq
finiesh (3) - 1 freq
fiurst (3) - 1 freq
niest (3) - 2 freq
hanest (3) - 1 freq
yinst (3) - 77 freq
filst (3) - 4 freq
finisht (3) - 14 freq
feyest (3) - 1 freq
airnest (3) - 2 freq
figst (3) - 1 freq
honest (3) - 190 freq
finesse (3) - 2 freq
faintest (3) - 2 freq
first (3) - 2456 freq
fint (3) - 2 freq
fist (3) - 55 freq
suinest (3) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - F523
feenished - 166 freq
fenced-in - 1 freq
feenisht - 43 freq
functional - 11 freq
feeneesht - 9 freq
feeneeshed - 20 freq
faimisht - 1 freq
funged - 2 freq
finest - 59 freq
finished - 127 freq
funniest - 8 freq
fenced - 7 freq
feinisht - 32 freq
function - 32 freq
fancied - 31 freq
feenishd - 3 freq
feinished - 5 freq
finisht - 14 freq
funcied - 7 freq
fimmist - 1 freq
fancit - 1 freq
finneston - 1 freq
finnieston - 6 freq
feeneshed - 2 freq
finshed - 1 freq
foomigated - 2 freq
functioned - 1 freq
fancy-dancers - 1 freq
feeneesh'd - 1 freq
famished - 3 freq
famisht - 1 freq
fingtr - 1 freq
functions - 27 freq
faimished' - 1 freq
foncoot - 4 freq
feinish't - 1 freq
fung'd - 1 freq
fínished - 1 freq
functionality - 1 freq
feinist - 8 freq
functionins - 2 freq
fankit - 2 freq
functionin - 3 freq
feenishit - 2 freq
fínisht - 4 freq
€œfeenisht - 1 freq
fynest - 1 freq
functiont - 1 freq
funstane - 1 freq
functionaries - 1 freq
functionary - 1 freq
fangit - 1 freq
€˜finished - 1 freq
finechty - 2 freq
fionasstalker - 14 freq
finishit - 1 freq
fionasturges - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - FNST
finest - 59 freq
funniest - 8 freq
fenced - 7 freq
fancied - 31 freq
funcied - 7 freq
fancit - 1 freq
vainist - 1 freq
feinist - 8 freq
fynest - 1 freq
FINEST
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.243100 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 - 0.427409 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 - 0.028743 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 - 0.038772 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 - 0.000866 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.