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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to babies in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
babies (0) - 28 freq
barbies (1) - 3 freq
sabies (1) - 13 freq
babie (1) - 1 freq
babbies (1) - 13 freq
abies (1) - 3 freq
rabies (1) - 2 freq
babes (1) - 6 freq
saies (2) - 1 freq
facies (2) - 1 freq
sybies (2) - 1 freq
sambies (2) - 1 freq
bayes (2) - 1 freq
bailies (2) - 2 freq
basics (2) - 7 freq
bawbees (2) - 23 freq
babs (2) - 2 freq
davies (2) - 13 freq
baubles (2) - 7 freq
bases (2) - 6 freq
caries (2) - 1 freq
gables (2) - 4 freq
bobbies (2) - 33 freq
ladies (2) - 54 freq
beadies (2) - 1 freq
babies (0) - 28 freq
babes (1) - 6 freq
babs (2) - 2 freq
baabees (2) - 1 freq
babys (2) - 1 freq
rabies (2) - 2 freq
babie (2) - 1 freq
barbies (2) - 3 freq
babbies (2) - 13 freq
abies (2) - 3 freq
sabies (2) - 13 freq
baabie's (3) - 1 freq
baby's (3) - 6 freq
bogies (3) - 3 freq
bodies (3) - 184 freq
booies (3) - 1 freq
baes (3) - 17 freq
baukies (3) - 2 freq
babbie (3) - 34 freq
bales (3) - 17 freq
babe (3) - 11 freq
bikies (3) - 1 freq
babel (3) - 7 freq
rubies (3) - 4 freq
baabie (3) - 21 freq
SoundEx code - B120
bobby's - 5 freq
bawbag - 13 freq
bob's - 4 freq
bobbies - 33 freq
boobs - 7 freq
bowfs - 2 freq
boabby's - 1 freq
bawbees - 23 freq
behuives - 1 freq
baby's - 6 freq
bypass - 10 freq
baffies - 21 freq
babies - 28 freq
by-pass - 2 freq
behoves - 1 freq
babbie's - 1 freq
bobs - 9 freq
bawbee's - 14 freq
bobbie's - 3 freq
baabees - 1 freq
beeps - 5 freq
babs - 2 freq
bawbags - 2 freq
behaves - 3 freq
bab's - 1 freq
behavious - 1 freq
baabie's - 1 freq
boab's - 3 freq
babbies - 13 freq
baffie's - 5 freq
baffies' - 1 freq
bobbies' - 1 freq
babes - 6 freq
befaas - 2 freq
babookie - 1 freq
'baby's - 1 freq
boabs - 1 freq
bowffs - 1 freq
baps - 5 freq
babicka - 1 freq
buffs - 4 freq
bipoc - 1 freq
baw-bee's - 1 freq
bappy's - 3 freq
babe's - 1 freq
€œboobs - 1 freq
bapu-ji - 1 freq
babaza - 1 freq
bbhvkh - 1 freq
bipass - 1 freq
bafgoweeye - 1 freq
biebs - 1 freq
bawbaws - 1 freq
'babies' - 1 freq
babys - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - BBS
bobby's - 5 freq
bob's - 4 freq
bobbies - 33 freq
boobs - 7 freq
boabby's - 1 freq
bawbees - 23 freq
baby's - 6 freq
babies - 28 freq
babbie's - 1 freq
bobs - 9 freq
bawbee's - 14 freq
bobbie's - 3 freq
baabees - 1 freq
babs - 2 freq
bab's - 1 freq
baabie's - 1 freq
boab's - 3 freq
babbies - 13 freq
bobbies' - 1 freq
babes - 6 freq
'baby's - 1 freq
boabs - 1 freq
baw-bee's - 1 freq
babe's - 1 freq
€œboobs - 1 freq
babaza - 1 freq
biebs - 1 freq
bawbaws - 1 freq
'babies' - 1 freq
babys - 1 freq
BABIES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.216122 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 - 0.366951 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 - 0.028195 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 - 0.037136 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 - 0.001071 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.