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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to upstairs in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
upstairs (0) - 67 freq
'upstairs (1) - 1 freq
upstair (1) - 5 freq
i'stairs (2) - 1 freq
upsterrs (2) - 1 freq
stairs (2) - 205 freq
upstart (2) - 1 freq
unshair (3) - 3 freq
sairs (3) - 8 freq
i'stair (3) - 4 freq
stair's (3) - 2 freq
upstert (3) - 4 freq
ulsters (3) - 1 freq
carstairs (3) - 1 freq
scairs (3) - 1 freq
upsteer (3) - 3 freq
staurs (3) - 3 freq
stains (3) - 16 freq
stirs (3) - 5 freq
staiys (3) - 1 freq
upairt (3) - 1 freq
stars (3) - 104 freq
abstains (3) - 2 freq
steirs (3) - 4 freq
forstairs (3) - 1 freq
upstairs (0) - 67 freq
'upstairs (2) - 1 freq
upstair (2) - 5 freq
upstart (3) - 1 freq
stairs (3) - 205 freq
upsterrs (3) - 1 freq
i'stairs (3) - 1 freq
stars (4) - 104 freq
upsteirin (4) - 1 freq
stirs (4) - 5 freq
steirs (4) - 4 freq
staurs (4) - 3 freq
up-steers (4) - 1 freq
pastries (4) - 1 freq
pasturs (4) - 1 freq
bestirs (4) - 2 freq
upsteer (4) - 3 freq
upstert (4) - 4 freq
posters (4) - 28 freq
ulsters (4) - 1 freq
upstier (4) - 1 freq
postures (5) - 2 freq
putters (5) - 1 freq
upsets (5) - 2 freq
tasters (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - U123
upstairs - 67 freq
upsitten - 1 freq
upside - 37 freq
upfesht - 1 freq
upstream - 2 freq
upset - 65 freq
upside-doun - 1 freq
upsides - 5 freq
upsydes - 2 freq
upsteerin - 5 freq
upside-doon - 3 freq
upshot - 13 freq
upseyt - 1 freq
upsyde's - 2 freq
upguttet - 1 freq
upstert - 4 freq
upstage - 2 freq
upheezed - 2 freq
upstair - 5 freq
upsettin - 5 freq
upbiggit - 3 freq
upact - 1 freq
up-staunin - 1 freq
upstannin - 3 freq
upstaander - 1 freq
up-heized - 2 freq
upheized - 1 freq
upstaunin - 3 freq
upstier - 1 freq
upstaund - 1 freq
upsteirin - 1 freq
upsettan - 1 freq
upsteer - 3 freq
ubiquitous - 4 freq
upsteerers - 24 freq
ubiqitous - 1 freq
ubeeqitous - 1 freq
upstart - 1 freq
'upstairs - 1 freq
upstaundin - 1 freq
ubeequity - 2 freq
upsterrs - 1 freq
upsteerer - 6 freq
upsetting - 1 freq
up-steers - 1 freq
upside' - 1 freq
upsteeerers - 1 freq
ufzduerqyd - 1 freq
uybxtheimh - 1 freq
ubgt - 1 freq
uofgeducation - 2 freq
upsets - 2 freq
upsticken - 1 freq
uvfsdyxlid - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - UPSTRS
upstairs - 67 freq
'upstairs - 1 freq
upsterrs - 1 freq
up-steers - 1 freq
UPSTAIRS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.202133 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 - 0.344291 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 - 0.028500 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 - 0.037282 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 - 0.000814 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.