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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to palaces in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
palaces (0) - 9 freq
places (1) - 246 freq
palates (1) - 1 freq
palace' (1) - 2 freq
palace (1) - 98 freq
balances (2) - 3 freq
paces (2) - 14 freq
place (2) - 1701 freq
pales (2) - 2 freq
placed (2) - 55 freq
placies (2) - 4 freq
planes (2) - 19 freq
palate (2) - 4 freq
palaver (2) - 10 freq
'palace (2) - 1 freq
pleces (2) - 1 freq
placeys (2) - 3 freq
plaeces (2) - 3 freq
parades (2) - 7 freq
plates (2) - 58 freq
place' (2) - 8 freq
saaces (2) - 1 freq
plaes (2) - 1 freq
placks (2) - 3 freq
pailace (2) - 8 freq
palaces (0) - 9 freq
places (1) - 246 freq
plaeces (2) - 3 freq
placeys (2) - 3 freq
placies (2) - 4 freq
palace (2) - 98 freq
palates (2) - 1 freq
palace' (2) - 2 freq
pleces (2) - 1 freq
plaes (3) - 1 freq
place' (3) - 8 freq
placks (3) - 3 freq
place's (3) - 3 freq
pilates (3) - 1 freq
policies (3) - 46 freq
palais (3) - 2 freq
plates (3) - 58 freq
placey (3) - 2 freq
pailace (3) - 8 freq
laces (3) - 11 freq
placed (3) - 55 freq
place (3) - 1701 freq
paces (3) - 14 freq
planes (3) - 19 freq
pales (3) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - P422
plashes - 1 freq
poloko's - 3 freq
places - 246 freq
pliskies - 3 freq
pleases - 9 freq
places-aw - 1 freq
place's - 3 freq
'pleughs - 1 freq
plisses - 4 freq
placeys - 3 freq
polkas - 2 freq
palaces - 9 freq
pillowcase - 1 freq
plaises - 3 freq
plaice's - 1 freq
plexus - 3 freq
plushest - 1 freq
policies - 46 freq
placesaal - 1 freq
plagues - 4 freq
plusses - 1 freq
places-aal - 1 freq
plaques - 4 freq
pleces - 1 freq
placesall - 1 freq
ploukish - 1 freq
plaesses - 15 freq
pluchie's - 1 freq
plaesis - 1 freq
pleughies - 1 freq
pulses - 3 freq
placies - 4 freq
plesis - 2 freq
palliasses - 1 freq
paliassis - 1 freq
pleuchis - 1 freq
€˜plages - 1 freq
plough-stanes - 1 freq
plukes - 1 freq
plaeces - 3 freq
plaikies - 1 freq
policescotland - 7 freq
paulacoyscot - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - PLSS
places - 246 freq
pleases - 9 freq
places-aw - 1 freq
place's - 3 freq
plisses - 4 freq
placeys - 3 freq
pals's - 1 freq
palaces - 9 freq
plaises - 3 freq
plaice's - 1 freq
policies - 46 freq
plusses - 1 freq
pleces - 1 freq
plaesses - 15 freq
plaesis - 1 freq
pulses - 3 freq
placies - 4 freq
plesis - 2 freq
palliasses - 1 freq
paliassis - 1 freq
plaeces - 3 freq
pallas's - 1 freq
PALACES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.191110 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 - 0.374588 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 - 0.032765 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 - 0.040297 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 - 0.000878 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.