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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to handkerchiefs in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
handkerchiefs (0) - 1 freq
handkerchief (1) - 4 freq
hankerchief (2) - 2 freq
kaiserchiefs (4) - 2 freq
heirarchies (6) - 1 freq
handle-less (6) - 1 freq
anarchie (6) - 1 freq
hankering (6) - 2 freq
maker-chiel (6) - 1 freq
handlers (6) - 1 freq
hankies (6) - 3 freq
masterchef (6) - 2 freq
airchie's (6) - 18 freq
wanderers (6) - 44 freq
gadderies (6) - 2 freq
panderers (6) - 1 freq
handers (6) - 1 freq
erchie's (6) - 6 freq
headteachers (6) - 1 freq
chandeliers (6) - 1 freq
hierarchies (6) - 2 freq
tendencies (6) - 2 freq
wanderins (6) - 2 freq
handedness (6) - 1 freq
abdnarchives (6) - 2 freq
handkerchiefs (0) - 1 freq
handkerchief (2) - 4 freq
hankerchief (4) - 2 freq
kaiserchiefs (8) - 2 freq
underclaes (10) - 1 freq
abdnarchives (10) - 2 freq
headteachers (10) - 1 freq
sandwiches (10) - 35 freq
handers (10) - 1 freq
handlers (10) - 1 freq
heirarchies (10) - 1 freq
handrails (10) - 1 freq
handwritings (10) - 1 freq
hierarchies (10) - 2 freq
hinders (11) - 2 freq
hankered (11) - 2 freq
undercroft (11) - 1 freq
androcles (11) - 4 freq
neanderthals (11) - 19 freq
hurchins (11) - 2 freq
handshakes (11) - 1 freq
tonkerthomas (11) - 3 freq
hundreds (11) - 10 freq
heydrich's (11) - 3 freq
haunders (11) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - H532
haunds - 234 freq
handwash - 1 freq
hands - 175 freq
handicap - 2 freq
handsome - 39 freq
hants - 1 freq
haunts - 13 freq
huntsman's - 1 freq
hunds - 3 freq
hunts - 12 freq
huntegowk - 2 freq
handsel - 7 freq
handselt - 2 freq
huntigowk - 3 freq
hounds - 3 freq
handkerchief - 4 freq
handkie - 1 freq
hindquarters - 1 freq
handce - 1 freq
handshake - 2 freq
hinds - 3 freq
huntsman - 2 freq
hand's - 2 freq
hoonds - 1 freq
hand-carved - 1 freq
handcuffed - 2 freq
hindus - 2 freq
handkerchiefs - 1 freq
handsomest - 1 freq
'hen-taes' - 1 freq
haundsome - 1 freq
haands - 43 freq
haands' - 1 freq
hints - 9 freq
hundiclokks - 1 freq
haands-free - 1 freq
huntiegowk - 2 freq
hen-taes - 1 freq
hamethochts - 1 freq
haand's - 2 freq
handsels - 1 freq
haundshake - 1 freq
haandshack - 1 freq
handsomer - 1 freq
haundsel - 3 freq
hinny-douce - 1 freq
hewmets - 1 freq
handis - 1 freq
hinduism - 2 freq
hindsight - 1 freq
haund-cupped - 1 freq
hindsicht - 1 freq
€œhands - 1 freq
handwashing - 1 freq
hands-o - 1 freq
handicapped - 1 freq
handsellin - 3 freq
hand-sellin - 1 freq
'haunds' - 1 freq
honds - 1 freq
handsomely - 1 freq
hundog - 1 freq
hinodegiri - 1 freq
handcairt - 1 freq
hindies - 1 freq
hmdhcjyw - 1 freq
handshakes - 1 freq
handsupfortrad - 49 freq
hmdhqaqt - 1 freq
handcart - 1 freq
hentixn - 1 freq
handcock - 1 freq
handies' - 1 freq
“honds” - 1 freq
handsupfortrad's - 1 freq
handyhock - 2 freq
handsum - 1 freq
hand-shake - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - HNTKRXFS
handkerchiefs - 1 freq
HANDKERCHIEFS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.226648 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 - 0.429608 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 - 0.036609 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 - 0.047825 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 - 0.000818 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.