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Similar words to ridiculous in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
ridiculous (0) - 31 freq
ridiculous' (1) - 1 freq
rideiculous (1) - 2 freq
radiculous (1) - 1 freq
ridiculously (2) - 2 freq
rideeculous (2) - 2 freq
ridicule (3) - 7 freq
rideiculas (3) - 1 freq
miraculous (3) - 6 freq
meticulous (3) - 4 freq
ridiculed (3) - 4 freq
mireculous (3) - 1 freq
pridecolours (4) - 1 freq
ludicrous (4) - 3 freq
ridiculousness (4) - 2 freq
redictions (4) - 1 freq
richtous (4) - 1 freq
rideeculas (4) - 1 freq
radicals (4) - 7 freq
rickles (5) - 4 freq
miraculously (5) - 12 freq
idiots (5) - 20 freq
agricultur (5) - 1 freq
solicitous (5) - 2 freq
jeilous (5) - 1 freq
ridiculous (0) - 31 freq
rideiculous (1) - 2 freq
radiculous (1) - 1 freq
rideeculous (2) - 2 freq
ridiculous' (2) - 1 freq
ridiculously (3) - 2 freq
rideiculas (3) - 1 freq
ridiculed (4) - 4 freq
radicals (4) - 7 freq
rideeculas (4) - 1 freq
ridicule (4) - 7 freq
miraculous (5) - 6 freq
meticulous (5) - 4 freq
mireculous (5) - 1 freq
riddles (6) - 9 freq
radical (6) - 63 freq
redials (6) - 1 freq
redictions (6) - 1 freq
radicalism (6) - 7 freq
pridecolours (6) - 1 freq
ludicrous (6) - 3 freq
racous (7) - 1 freq
ordinals (7) - 3 freq
radiators (7) - 3 freq
airticles (7) - 64 freq
SoundEx code - R324
radiculous - 1 freq
ridiculous - 31 freq
radical - 63 freq
radge-lookin - 2 freq
ridiculed - 4 freq
ridiculousness - 2 freq
rathclerish - 1 freq
retical - 1 freq
radicalism - 7 freq
radicals - 7 freq
riddochill - 1 freq
radiecal - 1 freq
radge-like - 1 freq
ridicule - 7 freq
rideeculas - 1 freq
rideiculous - 2 freq
rideiculas - 1 freq
radgelike - 1 freq
radicalised - 1 freq
rideeculous - 2 freq
€˜radical - 1 freq
radikale - 1 freq
rdicljpncb - 1 freq
rteclare - 1 freq
ridiculously - 2 freq
radiosaltire - 5 freq
ridiculous' - 1 freq
roadkill - 1 freq
radioclydenews - 1 freq
roadkilled - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - RTKLS
radiculous - 1 freq
ridiculous - 31 freq
radicals - 7 freq
rideeculas - 1 freq
rideiculous - 2 freq
rideiculas - 1 freq
rideeculous - 2 freq
ridiculous' - 1 freq
RIDICULOUS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.428856 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 - 0.679211 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 - 0.077556 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 - 0.089889 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 - 0.001188 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.