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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to sizes in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
sizes (0) - 41 freq
size (1) - 294 freq
sites (1) - 22 freq
sides (1) - 155 freq
uizes (1) - 7 freq
sies (1) - 3 freq
sized (1) - 13 freq
siles (1) - 1 freq
aizes (1) - 1 freq
sixes (1) - 2 freq
sines (1) - 1 freq
tizes (1) - 1 freq
slaes (2) - 6 freq
swees (2) - 3 freq
mines (2) - 66 freq
sybes (2) - 1 freq
dizer (2) - 1 freq
aires (2) - 1 freq
sawes (2) - 1 freq
site (2) - 100 freq
vines (2) - 6 freq
dides (2) - 1 freq
siz (2) - 3 freq
rises (2) - 42 freq
shoes (2) - 138 freq
sizes (0) - 41 freq
siles (2) - 1 freq
aizes (2) - 1 freq
tizes (2) - 1 freq
sized (2) - 13 freq
sixes (2) - 2 freq
sines (2) - 1 freq
sies (2) - 3 freq
size (2) - 294 freq
sites (2) - 22 freq
uizes (2) - 7 freq
sides (2) - 155 freq
sips (3) - 4 freq
skies (3) - 51 freq
shies (3) - 1 freq
symes (3) - 2 freq
suze (3) - 1 freq
asides (3) - 8 freq
suites (3) - 2 freq
shaes (3) - 5 freq
suze's (3) - 1 freq
sates (3) - 9 freq
sids (3) - 1 freq
aises (3) - 1 freq
swaes (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - S220
sixes - 2 freq
sizes - 41 freq
sauchs - 9 freq
sausage - 45 freq
sakes - 22 freq
shakes - 24 freq
souchs - 25 freq
success - 97 freq
sassage - 5 freq
sachs - 4 freq
squeezes - 4 freq
sickies - 2 freq
swishes - 1 freq
sheughs - 9 freq
susie's - 4 freq
sagas - 3 freq
sicweys - 7 freq
syze's - 1 freq
suzukee - 1 freq
sighs - 20 freq
saasage - 8 freq
sqqqaqquaaaawwwk - 1 freq
seqways - 1 freq
scozzessi - 1 freq
scozzessi' - 1 freq
sheugh's - 1 freq
seechs - 1 freq
suze's - 1 freq
sages - 1 freq
sheuchs - 13 freq
sikhs - 3 freq
sashes - 3 freq
sheuch's - 1 freq
sheikhs - 2 freq
siouxsie's - 1 freq
suki's - 1 freq
sucesso' - 1 freq
sichs - 5 freq
seaseek - 1 freq
shuggie's - 3 freq
suzie's - 1 freq
shewcaase - 2 freq
seggies - 1 freq
swæjies - 1 freq
sexes - 5 freq
souchikie - 1 freq
sykes - 1 freq
sikkis - 1 freq
sauchiehauch - 1 freq
sucess - 1 freq
sekes - 2 freq
shawcase - 1 freq
shuggy-shoo - 1 freq
seagows - 1 freq
sussex - 1 freq
siggies - 1 freq
saaces - 1 freq
soasij - 2 freq
swichis - 5 freq
sweechis - 2 freq
sweeches - 1 freq
sicweis - 1 freq
skuggis - 1 freq
saughs - 1 freq
sasuge - 1 freq
segas - 1 freq
sazcaz - 3 freq
sicwyes - 4 freq
sausage' - 1 freq
suxswgowu - 1 freq
suzieq - 3 freq
seahooses - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SSS
sizes - 41 freq
susie's - 4 freq
syze's - 1 freq
suze's - 1 freq
sucesso' - 1 freq
suzie's - 1 freq
zeus's - 3 freq
sucess - 1 freq
saaces - 1 freq
zsuz - 1 freq
SIZES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.174762 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 - 0.327319 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 - 0.028093 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 - 0.037246 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 - 0.000870 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.