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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to serve in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
serve (0) - 72 freq
sterve (1) - 14 freq
nerve (1) - 21 freq
serge (1) - 4 freq
serves (1) - 26 freq
server (1) - 2 freq
swerve (1) - 8 freq
served (1) - 75 freq
servt (1) - 1 freq
sere (1) - 3 freq
verve (1) - 2 freq
sarve (1) - 10 freq
kerve (1) - 5 freq
seeve (1) - 3 freq
seven (2) - 120 freq
sereive (2) - 1 freq
meeve (2) - 17 freq
deive (2) - 1 freq
serpen (2) - 1 freq
sarne (2) - 1 freq
serene (2) - 2 freq
eeve (2) - 8 freq
nerves (2) - 44 freq
we've (2) - 301 freq
shrne (2) - 1 freq
serve (0) - 72 freq
sarve (1) - 10 freq
survey (2) - 33 freq
seeve (2) - 3 freq
sereive (2) - 1 freq
sairve (2) - 5 freq
serieve (2) - 3 freq
srv (2) - 1 freq
verve (2) - 2 freq
kerve (2) - 5 freq
sere (2) - 3 freq
serge (2) - 4 freq
nerve (2) - 21 freq
sterve (2) - 14 freq
server (2) - 2 freq
serves (2) - 26 freq
served (2) - 75 freq
servt (2) - 1 freq
swerve (2) - 8 freq
service (3) - 198 freq
smervie (3) - 2 freq
sieve (3) - 6 freq
serug (3) - 3 freq
carve (3) - 5 freq
shove (3) - 34 freq
SoundEx code - S610
sherp - 96 freq
scarf - 44 freq
scruff - 10 freq
sairve - 5 freq
sharp - 90 freq
screive-ye - 1 freq
screive - 70 freq
scrape - 30 freq
shairp - 80 freq
scrappy - 4 freq
skerf - 4 freq
syrup - 24 freq
scrieve - 168 freq
serve - 72 freq
survey - 33 freq
scrub - 19 freq
sereive - 1 freq
scarp - 2 freq
skirp - 5 freq
screeve - 1 freq
sheriff - 13 freq
scruffy - 6 freq
scribe - 7 freq
sherpa - 2 freq
scrap - 33 freq
scraip - 1 freq
shayrp - 1 freq
scrive - 1 freq
sorrafu - 4 freq
'scrieve - 1 freq
scrabo - 3 freq
swerve - 8 freq
serieve - 3 freq
skreive - 9 freq
sarve - 10 freq
scriba - 1 freq
scarab - 1 freq
scraba - 2 freq
skarpy - 1 freq
shrub - 2 freq
skarfe - 1 freq
scerf - 1 freq
skröf - 3 freq
sjærp - 1 freq
scruif - 4 freq
scrybe - 2 freq
skrieve - 5 freq
sair-aff - 3 freq
schairp - 1 freq
skrifaðu - 1 freq
skrifiði - 1 freq
sharpe - 10 freq
seerip - 1 freq
schiref - 2 freq
scraep - 1 freq
screev - 1 freq
sherriff - 2 freq
scrubby - 1 freq
€œshurrup - 1 freq
€œscrieve - 1 freq
serbia - 4 freq
€˜sah-rah-yay-vo - 1 freq
skarv- - 1 freq
scrip - 3 freq
sherrif - 2 freq
€˜scrieve - 1 freq
scairf - 1 freq
€œscruff - 1 freq
srv - 1 freq
scrabba - 2 freq
scarve - 1 freq
scrapy - 1 freq
srpo - 1 freq
srwpby - 1 freq
scurvy - 3 freq
seryfa - 2 freq
syrupy - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SRF
sairve - 5 freq
serve - 72 freq
survey - 33 freq
sereive - 1 freq
sorrafu - 4 freq
serieve - 3 freq
sarve - 10 freq
scerf - 1 freq
sair-aff - 3 freq
srv - 1 freq
cerfoo - 1 freq
zriv - 1 freq
seryfa - 2 freq
SERVE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.185588 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 - 0.335602 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 - 0.027879 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 - 0.037832 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 - 0.000922 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.