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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to works in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
works (0) - 118 freq
work's (1) - 3 freq
worms (1) - 21 freq
worls (1) - 5 freq
work (1) - 654 freq
forks (1) - 15 freq
words (1) - 802 freq
wirks (1) - 49 freq
workt (1) - 5 freq
workn (1) - 1 freq
work' (1) - 1 freq
wurks (1) - 3 freq
warks (1) - 132 freq
worky (1) - 1 freq
word (2) - 697 freq
awork (2) - 1 freq
pooks (2) - 1 freq
zonks (2) - 1 freq
joris (2) - 1 freq
woke (2) - 90 freq
wor' (2) - 2 freq
wauks (2) - 5 freq
worm (2) - 34 freq
workies (2) - 1 freq
workan (2) - 9 freq
works (0) - 118 freq
wurks (1) - 3 freq
wirks (1) - 49 freq
warks (1) - 132 freq
work (2) - 654 freq
worky (2) - 1 freq
workies (2) - 1 freq
work's (2) - 3 freq
waarks (2) - 5 freq
wraks (2) - 1 freq
worms (2) - 21 freq
work' (2) - 1 freq
worls (2) - 5 freq
workt (2) - 5 freq
workn (2) - 1 freq
forks (2) - 15 freq
words (2) - 802 freq
wurkt (3) - 2 freq
yerks (3) - 1 freq
dirks (3) - 4 freq
parks (3) - 92 freq
warms (3) - 8 freq
srks (3) - 1 freq
wirds (3) - 868 freq
workers (3) - 34 freq
SoundEx code - W620
wark - 892 freq
work - 654 freq
worse - 206 freq
warehoose - 3 freq
wirk - 334 freq
warks - 132 freq
wirks - 49 freq
whaur's - 45 freq
where's - 27 freq
wares - 6 freq
werk - 8 freq
wrack - 38 freq
wark''s - 1 freq
wirries - 10 freq
wires - 27 freq
wears - 53 freq
'where's - 7 freq
'whaur's - 9 freq
works - 118 freq
weers - 16 freq
worky - 1 freq
worries - 62 freq
waurk - 3 freq
war's - 3 freq
wirse - 6 freq
work's - 3 freq
'work - 2 freq
wurk - 70 freq
wurse - 16 freq
whaurs - 9 freq
wersh - 24 freq
wars - 61 freq
weirs - 25 freq
whar's - 8 freq
warse - 29 freq
wurries - 2 freq
wreck - 13 freq
wurrie's - 1 freq
woooooooaaaaaaarrch - 1 freq
'whar's - 2 freq
wark's - 4 freq
whereas - 8 freq
werrocks - 1 freq
wrak - 3 freq
wurks - 3 freq
whars - 3 freq
wurs - 3 freq
whurs - 1 freq
whur's - 1 freq
warkie - 1 freq
warehouse - 1 freq
wrek' - 1 freq
wrecks - 2 freq
'whoors' - 1 freq
wreak - 1 freq
whoor's - 1 freq
whoors - 1 freq
wark' - 2 freq
'whir's - 1 freq
wirs - 4 freq
whaar's - 3 freq
wershy - 1 freq
wrack's - 1 freq
wracks - 11 freq
wrecksi - 1 freq
wairse - 1 freq
warsh - 1 freq
waark - 110 freq
waarks - 5 freq
waars - 1 freq
wearies - 2 freq
weir's - 13 freq
whaaras - 23 freq
warg - 1 freq
weerg - 1 freq
wyres - 8 freq
whearies - 1 freq
work' - 1 freq
whurehouse - 1 freq
'weirs - 1 freq
warks' - 1 freq
whauras - 5 freq
whare's - 1 freq
wirricow - 1 freq
weirwaws - 1 freq
waurs - 1 freq
wraks - 1 freq
weires - 1 freq
warwick - 7 freq
weorc - 1 freq
warke - 1 freq
werke - 1 freq
werc - 1 freq
werck - 1 freq
woorke - 1 freq
€˜work - 2 freq
work-shy - 1 freq
€œwersh - 1 freq
whores - 2 freq
wharas - 1 freq
€˜wark - 1 freq
wahrz - 1 freq
weiris - 2 freq
wraik - 1 freq
warehoos - 1 freq
warsaw - 1 freq
wreuch - 1 freq
wirk's - 1 freq
wurc - 1 freq
wheres - 9 freq
warch - 1 freq
whaurÂ’s - 1 freq
wrzh - 1 freq
whereÂ’s - 2 freq
workshy - 1 freq
workie - 1 freq
weirÂ’s - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - WRKS
warks - 132 freq
wirks - 49 freq
wark''s - 1 freq
works - 118 freq
wirkies - 1 freq
work's - 3 freq
worricows - 1 freq
wark's - 4 freq
werrocks - 1 freq
wurks - 3 freq
waarks - 5 freq
warks' - 1 freq
wirkwyse - 1 freq
workies - 1 freq
wirk's - 1 freq
WORKS
wark - 892 freq
work - 654 freq
warkin - 156 freq
warks - 132 freq
warkers - 43 freq
warkit - 23 freq
warked - 23 freq
warkt - 11 freq
warkplace - 5 freq
warker - 7 freq
warkshops - 5 freq
warkshop - 1 freq
wark's - 4 freq
warkshoaps - 2 freq
wark' - 2 freq
work - 654 freq
workin - 178 freq
worked - 148 freq
works - 118 freq
working - 64 freq
workers - 34 freq
workshop - 21 freq
worker - 23 freq
workit - 22 freq
workan - 9 freq
workshops - 5 freq
workable - 3 freq
workin - 178 freq
workins - 3 freq
worksheet - 2 freq
workmates - 2 freq
workers' - 3 freq
workt - 5 freq
worket - 3 freq
worktop - 2 freq
workforce - 2 freq
workplace - 2 freq
workload - 2 freq
workman - 1 freq
workingclass - 1 freq
workminship - 1 freq
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.302782 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 - 0.645961 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 - 0.030292 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 - 0.067727 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 - 0.001125 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.