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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to staves in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
staves (0) - 2 freq
saves (1) - 11 freq
slaves (1) - 18 freq
states (1) - 79 freq
staved (1) - 2 freq
stavs (1) - 1 freq
stakes (1) - 6 freq
shaves (1) - 15 freq
stave (1) - 1 freq
stares (1) - 41 freq
taves (1) - 4 freq
steves (1) - 2 freq
stoves (1) - 3 freq
stages (1) - 16 freq
stanes (1) - 277 freq
stare' (2) - 1 freq
shaver (2) - 2 freq
stovies (2) - 37 freq
statues (2) - 7 freq
shames (2) - 2 freq
slave (2) - 41 freq
stan's (2) - 4 freq
stokes (2) - 2 freq
styes (2) - 3 freq
staet (2) - 6 freq
staves (0) - 2 freq
stoves (1) - 3 freq
steves (1) - 2 freq
stavs (1) - 1 freq
taves (2) - 4 freq
stanes (2) - 277 freq
stovies (2) - 37 freq
stares (2) - 41 freq
stages (2) - 16 freq
slaves (2) - 18 freq
stave (2) - 1 freq
states (2) - 79 freq
saves (2) - 11 freq
shaves (2) - 15 freq
stakes (2) - 6 freq
staved (2) - 2 freq
staetes (3) - 1 freq
stars (3) - 106 freq
stauns (3) - 70 freq
stags (3) - 1 freq
staines (3) - 2 freq
steave (3) - 1 freq
stabs (3) - 9 freq
staps (3) - 36 freq
shoves (3) - 20 freq
SoundEx code - S312
steps - 207 freq
staps - 36 freq
stobs - 8 freq
stoaps - 22 freq
suithfast - 11 freq
stovies - 37 freq
stuffs - 6 freq
stoves - 3 freq
suthfast - 1 freq
sit-ups - 1 freq
stops - 44 freq
shitebag - 2 freq
suithfest - 2 freq
stuff's - 4 freq
stepek - 1 freq
stuffie's - 1 freq
south-facin - 1 freq
side-by-side - 3 freq
step's - 2 freq
sotheby's - 2 freq
'shit-face' - 2 freq
stabs - 9 freq
stevie's - 13 freq
stoops - 4 freq
stoppeq - 1 freq
stavs - 1 freq
stepsisters - 3 freq
stepsister's - 2 freq
stepsister - 9 freq
stoups - 1 freq
stap-stairt - 2 freq
seed-box - 1 freq
stapag - 1 freq
side-bi-side - 2 freq
staffs - 1 freq
steps' - 1 freq
said-haafgaits - 1 freq
suithfestness - 1 freq
stap-bi-stap - 1 freq
soothfast - 1 freq
stepson - 1 freq
scottification - 1 freq
staups - 3 freq
steppies - 2 freq
stubbs - 1 freq
steevest - 1 freq
side-face - 1 freq
stoppage - 1 freq
seed-baas - 1 freq
shitebags - 1 freq
step-sister - 5 freq
stiffs - 1 freq
stowps - 2 freq
sate-back - 1 freq
staves - 2 freq
€œsteps - 1 freq
syetphzbsq - 1 freq
stevekydd - 1 freq
stevieg - 2 freq
stvsport - 2 freq
stefsmith - 1 freq
staffsref - 1 freq
stop's - 1 freq
stephjohn - 1 freq
setps - 1 freq
steves - 2 freq
steveÂ’s - 2 freq
stvkathryn - 1 freq
stepswizard - 1 freq
steveseagull - 1 freq
steviesouness - 1 freq
stubs - 1 freq
sthbuji - 1 freq
steveson - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - STFS
stovies - 37 freq
stuffs - 6 freq
stoves - 3 freq
stuff's - 4 freq
stuffie's - 1 freq
stevie's - 13 freq
stavs - 1 freq
staffs - 1 freq
side-face - 1 freq
stiffs - 1 freq
staves - 2 freq
steves - 2 freq
steveÂ’s - 2 freq
STAVES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.215408 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 - 0.355105 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 - 0.030385 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 - 0.037452 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 - 0.000846 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.