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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to grasses in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
grasses (0) - 8 freq
grasse (1) - 1 freq
grassed (1) - 5 freq
grasser (1) - 1 freq
glasses (1) - 23 freq
gresses (1) - 7 freq
grass (2) - 101 freq
granes (2) - 1 freq
gressis (2) - 1 freq
glaisses (2) - 21 freq
grapes (2) - 23 freq
casses (2) - 1 freq
glesses (2) - 96 freq
grates (2) - 5 freq
grossets (2) - 1 freq
dresses (2) - 18 freq
graces (2) - 16 freq
presses (2) - 23 freq
graves (2) - 31 freq
masses (2) - 12 freq
glaises (2) - 2 freq
grassic (2) - 8 freq
basses (2) - 2 freq
gnashes (2) - 1 freq
grasped (2) - 3 freq
grasses (0) - 8 freq
gresses (1) - 7 freq
glasses (2) - 23 freq
gressis (2) - 1 freq
grasser (2) - 1 freq
grasse (2) - 1 freq
grassed (2) - 5 freq
crosses (3) - 11 freq
grassy (3) - 7 freq
grayssed (3) - 1 freq
glosses (3) - 2 freq
guesses (3) - 6 freq
grassin (3) - 2 freq
grosset (3) - 2 freq
tresses (3) - 1 freq
presses (3) - 23 freq
harasses (3) - 1 freq
grassic (3) - 8 freq
glaisses (3) - 21 freq
dresses (3) - 18 freq
glesses (3) - 96 freq
grossets (3) - 1 freq
grass (3) - 101 freq
greasiest (4) - 1 freq
gress (4) - 199 freq
SoundEx code - G622
graces - 16 freq
grasses - 8 freq
greeshoch - 3 freq
gorgeous - 68 freq
gorjis - 1 freq
georgeson - 14 freq
'georgeson - 1 freq
gresses - 7 freq
grace's - 3 freq
greasiest - 1 freq
georges - 2 freq
greeshach - 2 freq
'grices' - 1 freq
graciously - 5 freq
gorgeousist - 1 freq
greesaugh - 1 freq
greesauch - 2 freq
gracious - 9 freq
gress-keekers - 1 freq
grassic - 8 freq
garages - 5 freq
gressis - 1 freq
gurges - 1 freq
grugous - 2 freq
grieshoch - 1 freq
george's - 2 freq
grey-gizzed - 1 freq
georgeous - 1 freq
greesheugh - 1 freq
george’s - 2 freq
greigexvs - 10 freq
garyhughesie - 1 freq
gergaskman - 2 freq
georgegalloway - 5 freq
gersoise - 5 freq
georgiaaustinxx - 1 freq
greece's - 1 freq
“gurzies” - 1 freq
graces' - 1 freq
grice's - 1 freq
georgesq - 1 freq
gerrykeogh - 2 freq
'george's - 1 freq
georgecaulkin - 1 freq
georgecunningh - 1 freq
georgesfloyd - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - KRSS
graces - 16 freq
grasses - 8 freq
caresses - 3 freq
corses - 1 freq
cruises - 5 freq
gresses - 7 freq
crisis - 29 freq
crosses - 11 freq
cuirasses - 1 freq
cruisies - 9 freq
grace's - 3 freq
crisis' - 1 freq
coorses - 16 freq
'grices' - 1 freq
curses - 8 freq
courses - 13 freq
gracious - 9 freq
crises - 1 freq
gressis - 1 freq
creases - 1 freq
croesus - 1 freq
greece's - 1 freq
“gurzies” - 1 freq
graces' - 1 freq
grice's - 1 freq
GRASSES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.184383 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 - 0.406564 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 - 0.027702 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 - 0.037848 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 - 0.000809 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.