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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to fife in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
fife (0) - 125 freq
rife (1) - 18 freq
fike (1) - 1 freq
fift (1) - 14 freq
fyfe (1) - 14 freq
fifd (1) - 1 freq
'fife (1) - 1 freq
life (1) - 1976 freq
fiff (1) - 1 freq
fire (1) - 705 freq
file (1) - 122 freq
wife (1) - 818 freq
fine (1) - 1603 freq
fite (1) - 199 freq
fifa (1) - 5 freq
fifer (1) - 11 freq
fie (1) - 3 freq
five (1) - 743 freq
fino (2) - 1 freq
 ime (2) - 1 freq
wiye (2) - 2 freq
ihe (2) - 2 freq
fink (2) - 72 freq
fid (2) - 4 freq
dive (2) - 44 freq
fife (0) - 125 freq
fyfe (1) - 14 freq
fifa (1) - 5 freq
five (2) - 743 freq
ffa (2) - 2 freq
fief (2) - 1 freq
fifer (2) - 11 freq
eiff (2) - 1 freq
faif (2) - 1 freq
ffi (2) - 1 freq
fite (2) - 199 freq
ff (2) - 7 freq
fie (2) - 3 freq
fifd (2) - 1 freq
fine (2) - 1603 freq
fift (2) - 14 freq
fike (2) - 1 freq
rife (2) - 18 freq
'fife (2) - 1 freq
wife (2) - 818 freq
file (2) - 122 freq
fire (2) - 705 freq
life (2) - 1976 freq
fiff (2) - 1 freq
awfe (3) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - F100
five - 743 freq
fou---fou - 1 freq
fife - 125 freq
fib - 3 freq
'five - 7 freq
fuff - 6 freq
fyve - 8 freq
fifa - 5 freq
fab - 18 freq
fief - 1 freq
'fife - 1 freq
faff - 3 freq
fyvie - 5 freq
fobie - 32 freq
five-o - 1 freq
fuv - 1 freq
fave - 14 freq
fabby - 68 freq
fehv - 1 freq
fob - 4 freq
fiff - 1 freq
fabio - 1 freq
feb - 7 freq
fuffie - 1 freq
fyfe - 14 freq
€œfive - 2 freq
fabbie - 2 freq
foefu - 1 freq
faif - 1 freq
€˜fuv - 1 freq
faiv - 1 freq
“five - 1 freq
fabbh - 1 freq
fub - 2 freq
fepow - 1 freq
feba - 1 freq
faaf - 1 freq
fhv - 1 freq
fav - 7 freq
fibf - 1 freq
fev - 1 freq
feafv - 2 freq
fibo - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FF
five - 743 freq
vieve - 14 freq
fou---fou - 1 freq
fife - 125 freq
veive - 6 freq
'five - 7 freq
fuff - 6 freq
feugh - 1 freq
fyve - 8 freq
fifa - 5 freq
fief - 1 freq
ve've - 1 freq
fffffffffffffff-fh - 1 freq
'viva - 1 freq
'fife - 1 freq
faff - 3 freq
fyvie - 5 freq
fvow - 1 freq
five-o - 1 freq
fuv - 1 freq
fave - 14 freq
veeve - 5 freq
fehv - 1 freq
viv - 1 freq
ghff - 1 freq
fiff - 1 freq
veev - 1 freq
vievie - 1 freq
fuffie - 1 freq
fyfe - 14 freq
€œfive - 2 freq
foefu - 1 freq
faif - 1 freq
€˜fuv - 1 freq
viva - 6 freq
faiv - 1 freq
“five - 1 freq
fvy - 1 freq
faaf - 1 freq
fhv - 1 freq
fav - 7 freq
fev - 1 freq
fv - 3 freq
vivi - 2 freq
vf - 1 freq
FIFE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.190664 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 - 0.363245 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 - 0.027432 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 - 0.037107 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 - 0.000945 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.