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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to world� in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
world'll (3) - 2 freq
world' (3) - 3 freq
worlde (3) - 1 freq
worldÂ’ (3) - 1 freq
world's (3) - 8 freq
world (3) - 433 freq
worlds (3) - 13 freq
wurld (4) - 55 freq
warlds (4) - 40 freq
wordin (4) - 3 freq
warld” (4) - 2 freq
worl's (4) - 1 freq
worls (4) - 5 freq
worded (4) - 1 freq
woarld (4) - 7 freq
would've (4) - 8 freq
wouldna (4) - 10 freq
wold (4) - 1 freq
warldly (4) - 4 freq
would' (4) - 2 freq
wordie (4) - 14 freq
worldwide (4) - 4 freq
warld' (4) - 2 freq
wouldn't (4) - 28 freq
wordies (4) - 6 freq
worlds (6) - 13 freq
world'll (6) - 2 freq
world's (6) - 8 freq
world (6) - 433 freq
worldÂ’ (6) - 1 freq
world' (6) - 3 freq
worlde (6) - 1 freq
warld's (7) - 40 freq
wirld (7) - 73 freq
warld' (7) - 2 freq
warldlie (7) - 1 freq
wirld's (7) - 5 freq
warlds' (7) - 1 freq
wirlds (7) - 3 freq
worldwide (7) - 4 freq
wurlds (7) - 1 freq
warld (7) - 820 freq
warldly (7) - 4 freq
woarld (7) - 7 freq
warld” (7) - 2 freq
wurld's (7) - 2 freq
warlds (7) - 40 freq
wurld (7) - 55 freq
woulda (8) - 4 freq
waarld (8) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - W643
warld - 820 freq
world - 433 freq
warld's - 40 freq
whirlt - 3 freq
wirld - 73 freq
world's - 8 freq
warlds - 40 freq
world' - 3 freq
worldwide - 4 freq
'world - 1 freq
wurld's - 2 freq
wurld - 55 freq
wurlds - 1 freq
warlwide - 5 freq
warldly - 4 freq
world-famous - 1 freq
warlt's - 2 freq
worlds - 13 freq
warldlie - 1 freq
world-player - 1 freq
warld-renooned - 1 freq
'warld-player' - 1 freq
warld-wide - 6 freq
whirlit - 1 freq
warld-class - 1 freq
world'll - 2 freq
warld-record-cowpin - 1 freq
warld-record - 1 freq
warldly-wise - 1 freq
warldwide - 5 freq
warld-renouned - 1 freq
wirlds - 3 freq
warl-wide - 1 freq
warld-like - 1 freq
worl'wide - 1 freq
warld' - 2 freq
warldlike - 1 freq
wirldwide - 1 freq
wirld's - 5 freq
warld-blinnd - 2 freq
whurlit - 1 freq
warldlie-wyce - 1 freq
warlds' - 1 freq
world-class - 1 freq
worldbookday - 5 freq
warld-kent - 1 freq
whurled - 1 freq
warld-famous - 1 freq
woarld - 7 freq
€˜world - 1 freq
waarld - 1 freq
worldsuicidepreventionday - 1 freq
wurruld - 4 freq
worldcuprussia - 1 freq
worldÂ’ - 1 freq
wurrild - 2 freq
warld” - 2 freq
worlde - 1 freq
worldceilidh - 6 freq
MetaPhone code - WRLT
warld - 820 freq
world - 433 freq
whirlt - 3 freq
wirld - 73 freq
world' - 3 freq
'world - 1 freq
wurld - 55 freq
whirlit - 1 freq
warld' - 2 freq
whurlit - 1 freq
whurled - 1 freq
woarld - 7 freq
€˜world - 1 freq
waarld - 1 freq
wurruld - 4 freq
worldÂ’ - 1 freq
wurrild - 2 freq
warld” - 2 freq
worlde - 1 freq
WORLD�
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.181979 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 - 0.338982 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 - 0.027492 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 - 0.038533 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 - 0.000838 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.