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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to gears in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
gears (0) - 15 freq
years (1) - 1172 freq
geats (1) - 1 freq
geans (1) - 2 freq
gear' (1) - 1 freq
fears (1) - 40 freq
wears (1) - 55 freq
geirs (1) - 1 freq
nears (1) - 3 freq
bears (1) - 37 freq
lears (1) - 2 freq
gaars (1) - 1 freq
hears (1) - 46 freq
gear (1) - 237 freq
gars (1) - 89 freq
'ears (1) - 8 freq
rears (1) - 2 freq
dears (1) - 12 freq
ears (1) - 112 freq
tears (1) - 307 freq
geari (1) - 1 freq
gear's (1) - 1 freq
gers (1) - 8 freq
peats (2) - 49 freq
teams (2) - 84 freq
gears (0) - 15 freq
gers (1) - 8 freq
geirs (1) - 1 freq
gars (1) - 89 freq
gaars (1) - 1 freq
gairs (2) - 1 freq
gurs (2) - 1 freq
gear's (2) - 1 freq
geari (2) - 1 freq
goarse (2) - 1 freq
gras (2) - 5 freq
goers (2) - 3 freq
gerse (2) - 2 freq
gaurs (2) - 2 freq
tears (2) - 307 freq
grays (2) - 2 freq
girs (2) - 4 freq
ears (2) - 112 freq
wears (2) - 55 freq
nears (2) - 3 freq
fears (2) - 40 freq
years (2) - 1172 freq
gear' (2) - 1 freq
geats (2) - 1 freq
geans (2) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - G620
gress - 200 freq
grows - 43 freq
grass - 106 freq
girse - 89 freq
gray's - 3 freq
george - 172 freq
greik - 1 freq
garioch - 19 freq
growes - 31 freq
girssie - 2 freq
girzie - 2 freq
gurrs - 1 freq
grace - 155 freq
gairs - 1 freq
gaars - 1 freq
greece - 23 freq
greek - 75 freq
graze - 9 freq
gressy - 15 freq
gracie - 22 freq
gaurs - 2 freq
grush - 1 freq
greig - 9 freq
gars - 89 freq
greasy - 27 freq
garage - 58 freq
gears - 15 freq
georgie - 2 freq
gourock - 4 freq
greys - 5 freq
grouse - 29 freq
grease - 12 freq
gross - 6 freq
gruoch - 1 freq
girss - 16 freq
goarse - 1 freq
gairage - 6 freq
gaireyge - 1 freq
geer's - 1 freq
gar's - 2 freq
grassy - 7 freq
greggs - 21 freq
greggs' - 1 freq
greeks - 11 freq
gruaig's - 1 freq
gris - 1 freq
gorge - 5 freq
gorgie - 3 freq
goers - 3 freq
grees - 18 freq
gers - 8 freq
groggy - 1 freq
'grice' - 3 freq
girs - 4 freq
grous - 2 freq
gurs - 1 freq
greg - 5 freq
gorse - 6 freq
gress' - 1 freq
garrs - 2 freq
groose - 4 freq
grice - 38 freq
garcia - 1 freq
garrioch - 1 freq
gairsay - 1 freq
'grace' - 1 freq
greyish - 3 freq
greiks - 2 freq
gruche - 1 freq
gerss - 5 freq
gary's - 7 freq
groke - 1 freq
grouws - 1 freq
gorehouse - 1 freq
gorie's - 1 freq
gorsh - 1 freq
graws - 4 freq
'grees - 2 freq
georgia - 6 freq
grushie - 3 freq
grigg's - 1 freq
grey's - 2 freq
gerse - 2 freq
giric - 1 freq
girsy - 1 freq
girssy - 3 freq
greiss - 1 freq
geerie's - 1 freq
gruggie - 2 freq
gros - 8 freq
greesie - 1 freq
grays - 2 freq
gruws - 2 freq
geirs - 1 freq
gryss - 3 freq
grues - 1 freq
groce - 4 freq
grose - 1 freq
gruesie - 1 freq
grosch - 1 freq
€˜grossa - 2 freq
€œgrossa - 1 freq
gurkha - 1 freq
grasse - 1 freq
grigio - 2 freq
€œgracie - 1 freq
gryce - 1 freq
gracia - 2 freq
€œgrace - 2 freq
girsey - 2 freq
gregs - 1 freq
grayÂ’s - 3 freq
giros - 1 freq
gras - 5 freq
grcu - 1 freq
gear's - 1 freq
'georg - 1 freq
gork - 1 freq
'girse' - 1 freq
“george - 1 freq
gairk - 1 freq
garish - 1 freq
gwurkyo - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - JRS
girse - 89 freq
girssie - 2 freq
girzie - 2 freq
jaurs - 15 freq
jersey - 22 freq
jerries - 11 freq
gears - 15 freq
jeers - 1 freq
jars - 21 freq
girss - 16 freq
geer's - 1 freq
gers - 8 freq
girs - 4 freq
jairus - 3 freq
gerss - 5 freq
gerse - 2 freq
jauries - 2 freq
jarr's - 1 freq
girsy - 1 freq
girssy - 3 freq
jurie's - 1 freq
geerie's - 1 freq
jaírus - 2 freq
jours - 1 freq
geirs - 1 freq
jawrs - 1 freq
girsey - 2 freq
giros - 1 freq
joris - 1 freq
jury's - 1 freq
gear's - 1 freq
'girse' - 1 freq
juries - 1 freq
jerriais - 1 freq
GEARS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.193968 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 - 0.377131 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 - 0.028202 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 - 0.039170 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 - 0.004722 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.