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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to forty-six in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
forty-six (0) - 1 freq
fifty-six (2) - 1 freq
sixty-six (3) - 5 freq
thirty-six (3) - 1 freq
forty-nine (3) - 1 freq
'fifty-six (3) - 1 freq
echty-six (3) - 1 freq
forty-wan (3) - 1 freq
forty-odd (3) - 1 freq
forty-two (3) - 4 freq
fifty-sax (3) - 1 freq
forty-five (3) - 2 freq
forty-twa (3) - 2 freq
forays (4) - 2 freq
hortensia (4) - 31 freq
fortress (4) - 6 freq
saxty-sax (4) - 1 freq
fortig (4) - 1 freq
fortriu (4) - 1 freq
forty-twae (4) - 2 freq
forty-seiven (4) - 1 freq
fortin (4) - 1 freq
dorty-wye (4) - 1 freq
cortesia (4) - 1 freq
fortrose (4) - 2 freq
forty-six (0) - 1 freq
fifty-six (3) - 1 freq
fifty-sax (4) - 1 freq
forty-two (5) - 4 freq
thirty-six (5) - 1 freq
forty-twa (5) - 2 freq
sixty-six (5) - 5 freq
forty-odd (5) - 1 freq
forty-five (5) - 2 freq
forty-wan (5) - 1 freq
forty-nine (5) - 1 freq
'fifty-six (5) - 1 freq
echty-six (5) - 1 freq
forts (6) - 3 freq
forty-four (6) - 1 freq
forties (6) - 5 freq
furth-set (6) - 12 freq
fortrose (6) - 2 freq
forthset (6) - 2 freq
eichty-six (6) - 1 freq
thirty-sax (6) - 2 freq
forty-seiven (6) - 1 freq
forty-twae (6) - 2 freq
saxty-sax (6) - 1 freq
fortress (6) - 6 freq
SoundEx code - F632
faar't's - 1 freq
furthcomin - 3 freq
ferrets - 10 freq
fridge - 59 freq
foreheids - 1 freq
feart-hke - 2 freq
forritsome - 4 freq
fruitcake - 1 freq
fowerties - 1 freq
fridays - 11 freq
forty-seiven - 1 freq
forethocht - 4 freq
fearties - 4 freq
forthset - 2 freq
fruits - 18 freq
fords - 1 freq
frets - 5 freq
forties - 5 freq
furthsets - 1 freq
forty-somethin - 1 freq
fred's - 5 freq
freats - 3 freq
forrits - 17 freq
forthcomin - 5 freq
forts - 3 freq
farthist - 1 freq
furthsettins - 2 freq
forth-clyde - 1 freq
farts - 5 freq
friday's - 2 freq
frieda's - 2 freq
furthest - 3 freq
furthcumin - 2 freq
forty-six - 1 freq
furdest - 2 freq
'frites' - 1 freq
fredssenter' - 1 freq
forritsum - 3 freq
freits - 5 freq
forde's - 1 freq
furth-settin - 1 freq
foirtaikin - 1 freq
firth's - 1 freq
forritgaein - 1 freq
furthset - 34 freq
furthshawin - 1 freq
freedge - 1 freq
fardest - 4 freq
feardiegowk - 1 freq
furthsetters - 1 freq
fire-edged - 1 freq
fordest - 2 freq
furth-set - 12 freq
furthsettin - 8 freq
furritsome - 1 freq
farthest - 1 freq
fridges - 1 freq
foir-test - 1 freq
fortig - 1 freq
fraudster - 3 freq
faardest - 1 freq
forthcoming - 3 freq
forthcomin' - 1 freq
ferthest - 3 freq
fordson - 3 freq
foreheads - 1 freq
firrits - 3 freq
'firrits - 1 freq
fritchtin - 1 freq
friday’s - 1 freq
fordkiernan - 1 freq
frites - 1 freq
fridgeytown - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - FRTSKS
forty-six - 1 freq
FORTY-SIX
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.440183 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 - 0.519506 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 - 0.030417 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 - 0.040412 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 - 0.000919 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.