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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to varieties in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
varieties (0) - 43 freq
vanities (2) - 1 freq
breeties (3) - 1 freq
aaredies (3) - 1 freq
pieties (3) - 1 freq
variation (3) - 18 freq
cairties (3) - 1 freq
arteries (3) - 5 freq
eariewigs (3) - 1 freq
variety (3) - 62 freq
rareities (3) - 1 freq
vanitie (3) - 2 freq
societies (3) - 14 freq
varies (3) - 2 freq
naraetirs (3) - 1 freq
christies (3) - 1 freq
aristius (3) - 1 freq
vreetins (3) - 1 freq
anxieties (3) - 2 freq
dafities (3) - 1 freq
dainties (3) - 5 freq
cavities (3) - 1 freq
pairties (3) - 94 freq
parties (3) - 20 freq
charities (3) - 4 freq
varieties (0) - 43 freq
vanities (3) - 1 freq
varies (4) - 2 freq
parties (4) - 20 freq
pairties (4) - 94 freq
veritas (4) - 1 freq
versities (4) - 4 freq
vreetins (4) - 1 freq
rareities (4) - 1 freq
pairities (4) - 1 freq
variety (4) - 62 freq
virtues (4) - 7 freq
variations (4) - 16 freq
breeties (4) - 1 freq
variation (4) - 18 freq
cairties (4) - 1 freq
veritie (4) - 3 freq
vreits (4) - 1 freq
praties (5) - 2 freq
fearties (5) - 4 freq
various (5) - 59 freq
ovaries (5) - 1 freq
certies (5) - 17 freq
vreeter (5) - 1 freq
varios (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - V632
verdict - 30 freq
vratch - 26 freq
vertical - 21 freq
varieties - 43 freq
vratches - 5 freq
virtuous - 3 freq
verdick - 1 freq
virtues - 7 freq
verdigris - 2 freq
vertiginous - 1 freq
varday's - 1 freq
virtuosity - 1 freq
vratched - 2 freq
vertue's - 1 freq
vreits - 1 freq
vortex - 2 freq
veridical - 1 freq
vratchies - 1 freq
vratchie - 1 freq
vertical-striped - 1 freq
verdicchio - 1 freq
verticals - 1 freq
vertigo - 1 freq
vertewis - 1 freq
verteego - 1 freq
veritas - 1 freq
vertish - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FRTS
faar't's - 1 freq
ferrets - 10 freq
varieties - 43 freq
fridays - 11 freq
virtuous - 3 freq
fearties - 4 freq
fruits - 18 freq
fords - 1 freq
fred's - 5 freq
frets - 2 freq
freats - 3 freq
forrits - 17 freq
forts - 3 freq
virtues - 7 freq
forties - 4 freq
farts - 5 freq
friday's - 2 freq
frieda's - 2 freq
'frites' - 1 freq
freits - 5 freq
forde's - 1 freq
varday's - 1 freq
vertue's - 1 freq
vreits - 1 freq
firrits - 3 freq
'firrits - 1 freq
veritas - 1 freq
friday’s - 1 freq
frites - 1 freq
VARIETIES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.689957 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 - 1.486264 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 - 0.101772 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 - 0.110891 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 - 0.000828 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.