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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to wurld in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
wurld (0) - 55 freq
wuild (1) - 4 freq
wirld (1) - 73 freq
wurid (1) - 1 freq
wurd (1) - 185 freq
wurl (1) - 1 freq
wuld (1) - 26 freq
world (1) - 433 freq
wurlds (1) - 1 freq
warld (1) - 820 freq
wuly (2) - 15 freq
wure (2) - 5 freq
wulk (2) - 1 freq
wuppd (2) - 1 freq
harld (2) - 1 freq
cured (2) - 29 freq
wurt (2) - 4 freq
wurna (2) - 2 freq
wuid (2) - 450 freq
warid (2) - 5 freq
wulls (2) - 2 freq
curled (2) - 43 freq
whurls (2) - 1 freq
whurled (2) - 1 freq
swurl (2) - 4 freq
wurld (0) - 55 freq
world (1) - 433 freq
warld (1) - 820 freq
wirld (1) - 73 freq
wurid (2) - 1 freq
wuild (2) - 4 freq
worlde (2) - 1 freq
woarld (2) - 7 freq
wurlds (2) - 1 freq
wurd (2) - 185 freq
wurl (2) - 1 freq
wuld (2) - 26 freq
waarld (2) - 1 freq
wourd (3) - 1 freq
world' (3) - 3 freq
burled (3) - 2 freq
ward (3) - 89 freq
weld (3) - 1 freq
worl' (3) - 25 freq
wald (3) - 2 freq
wyld (3) - 6 freq
purled (3) - 1 freq
furled (3) - 11 freq
wired (3) - 15 freq
worls (3) - 5 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
WURLD
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.178463 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 - 0.373505 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 - 0.027969 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 - 0.037024 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 - 0.000858 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.