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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to saxons in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
saxons (0) - 8 freq
saxones (1) - 1 freq
saxon (1) - 6 freq
barons (2) - 3 freq
canons (2) - 1 freq
saloons (2) - 1 freq
stons (2) - 13 freq
sax's (2) - 1 freq
javons (2) - 2 freq
talons (2) - 5 freq
seasons (2) - 38 freq
eatons (2) - 2 freq
saains (2) - 1 freq
sions (2) - 1 freq
soons (2) - 31 freq
masons (2) - 4 freq
sains (2) - 4 freq
naxos (2) - 2 freq
spoons (2) - 9 freq
saisons (2) - 19 freq
sauns (2) - 3 freq
sanns (2) - 3 freq
batons (2) - 1 freq
savins (2) - 8 freq
wagons (2) - 7 freq
saxons (0) - 8 freq
saxones (1) - 1 freq
saxon (2) - 6 freq
savins (3) - 8 freq
saesons (3) - 2 freq
sanns (3) - 3 freq
saisons (3) - 19 freq
sans (3) - 7 freq
sauns (3) - 3 freq
sawins (3) - 1 freq
satins (3) - 1 freq
sayins (3) - 4 freq
stoons (3) - 3 freq
sains (3) - 4 freq
sons (3) - 89 freq
spoons (3) - 9 freq
stons (3) - 13 freq
sax's (3) - 1 freq
seasons (3) - 38 freq
saloons (3) - 1 freq
saains (3) - 1 freq
sions (3) - 1 freq
soons (3) - 31 freq
stouns (4) - 3 freq
sixes (4) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - S252
seekness - 11 freq
saisons - 19 freq
seikness - 7 freq
saesons - 2 freq
signs - 146 freq
sick-making - 1 freq
'sessions' - 1 freq
soughing - 1 freq
sooking - 3 freq
signage - 28 freq
souchins - 1 freq
sequence - 7 freq
succinct - 1 freq
seasons - 38 freq
seasons-daily - 1 freq
sic-an-sic - 2 freq
saxons - 8 freq
shaking - 8 freq
sessions - 22 freq
season's - 2 freq
seeking - 6 freq
sickens - 2 freq
sic-an-sae - 2 freq
schisms - 1 freq
succinctly - 2 freq
sickness - 8 freq
secong - 1 freq
sassenachs - 3 freq
saxones - 1 freq
siesang - 1 freq
sie-sangs - 1 freq
sassenger - 1 freq
'sickness - 1 freq
swishing - 1 freq
souchong - 1 freq
sassenach - 9 freq
sauch-wanns - 1 freq
sea-sang - 1 freq
squaiking - 1 freq
seggans - 3 freq
swackness - 1 freq
saison's - 1 freq
six-guns - 1 freq
sessiouns - 3 freq
sizins-up - 1 freq
shocking - 13 freq
sizzens - 8 freq
sookins - 1 freq
sassanach - 1 freq
squeezing - 4 freq
seeknesses - 2 freq
shockingly - 1 freq
such-an-such - 1 freq
sicknesses - 1 freq
signages - 2 freq
sucking - 5 freq
sequins - 2 freq
sasannach - 1 freq
squawking - 2 freq
sacking - 2 freq
suzjamieson - 4 freq
susanshox - 1 freq
shugmcmillan - 18 freq
seiknesses - 1 freq
susancalman - 3 freq
shawshank - 1 freq
sazmqn - 1 freq
susannecc - 1 freq
sxeznmocby - 1 freq
siskins - 2 freq
skewsmug - 3 freq
sassenachexile - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SKSNS
saxons - 8 freq
saxones - 1 freq
SAXONS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.319057 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 - 0.557167 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 - 0.027665 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 - 0.076380 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 - 0.000996 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.