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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to hernishis in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
hernishis (0) - 1 freq
perishes (3) - 1 freq
furnishins (3) - 1 freq
furnishin (3) - 1 freq
dervishes (3) - 1 freq
feinishes (3) - 12 freq
reimishis (3) - 1 freq
feenishin (3) - 22 freq
harnish (3) - 2 freq
heroicis (3) - 2 freq
feenishit (3) - 2 freq
feinishin (3) - 3 freq
warnishins (3) - 2 freq
perishin (3) - 2 freq
feenishes (3) - 7 freq
warnishin (3) - 3 freq
hernesses (3) - 1 freq
cherishin (3) - 1 freq
nervish (4) - 8 freq
hennie's (4) - 1 freq
heichs (4) - 2 freq
heelichts (4) - 1 freq
herns (4) - 1 freq
hert-sair (4) - 7 freq
vertish (4) - 1 freq
hernishis (0) - 1 freq
hernesses (4) - 1 freq
harnish (4) - 2 freq
harness (5) - 14 freq
feenishes (5) - 7 freq
harnesh (5) - 1 freq
horshes (5) - 1 freq
warnishin (5) - 3 freq
warnishins (5) - 2 freq
feinishes (5) - 12 freq
furnishin (5) - 1 freq
furnishins (5) - 1 freq
perishes (5) - 1 freq
reimishis (5) - 1 freq
dervishes (5) - 1 freq
horssis (6) - 4 freq
varnished (6) - 3 freq
hernhogs (6) - 1 freq
furnished (6) - 2 freq
cornish (6) - 48 freq
hrish (6) - 1 freq
hershaw (6) - 15 freq
hardship (6) - 10 freq
finishes (6) - 8 freq
horsis (6) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - H652
harness - 14 freq
harns - 52 freq
horns - 43 freq
heronious - 3 freq
harm's - 1 freq
hairy-maggie - 25 freq
hairymaggie - 2 freq
hairy-maggie's - 1 freq
hornygollach - 4 freq
horn-spuin - 1 freq
hermes - 7 freq
herring - 3 freq
hernesses - 1 freq
herness-room - 1 freq
herring' - 1 freq
hornis - 2 freq
herns - 1 freq
hearins - 1 freq
horn's - 2 freq
herrin's - 1 freq
hearing - 24 freq
horniegolochs - 1 freq
horensia - 1 freq
horniegolloch - 1 freq
hoarns - 2 freq
harangue - 1 freq
hairm's - 3 freq
hiring - 1 freq
hairns - 8 freq
harrowing - 1 freq
hermogenes - 2 freq
herm's - 3 freq
harnish - 2 freq
herron's - 1 freq
hornes - 2 freq
hornjer - 1 freq
hornygulloch - 1 freq
hairms - 2 freq
heroines - 1 freq
harn-guddled - 1 freq
harnessed - 4 freq
hornie's - 1 freq
herons - 3 freq
hernishis - 1 freq
hooer-maister - 1 freq
hoormaisters - 1 freq
hurrying - 1 freq
horny-gollachs - 2 freq
hornygollachs - 1 freq
harness-room - 5 freq
harems - 1 freq
herrins - 2 freq
harnesh - 1 freq
harrans - 1 freq
hoor-maister - 1 freq
hernhogs - 1 freq
harryingolfsson - 11 freq
hairyangus - 9 freq
hornycol - 2 freq
hornies - 1 freq
harrymaguire - 1 freq
hermiston - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - HRNXS
hernishis - 1 freq
HERNISHIS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.233388 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 - 0.423914 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 - 0.028714 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 - 0.042090 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 - 0.000948 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.