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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to tails in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
tails (0) - 54 freq
tuils (1) - 13 freq
pails (1) - 14 freq
taigs (1) - 2 freq
tail (1) - 265 freq
hails (1) - 6 freq
trails (1) - 14 freq
taids (1) - 2 freq
jails (1) - 1 freq
rails (1) - 16 freq
taill (1) - 54 freq
nails (1) - 80 freq
mails (1) - 3 freq
taels (1) - 2 freq
taits (1) - 1 freq
taims (1) - 1 freq
taills (1) - 2 freq
tail's (1) - 2 freq
fails (1) - 20 freq
sails (1) - 39 freq
wails (1) - 6 freq
ails (1) - 9 freq
tries (2) - 74 freq
thill (2) - 1 freq
pairs (2) - 27 freq
tails (0) - 54 freq
taels (1) - 2 freq
tuils (1) - 13 freq
ails (2) - 9 freq
wails (2) - 6 freq
fails (2) - 20 freq
tiles (2) - 16 freq
tail's (2) - 2 freq
teels (2) - 2 freq
tales (2) - 149 freq
tials (2) - 1 freq
tyls (2) - 1 freq
tels (2) - 4 freq
tools (2) - 47 freq
taills (2) - 2 freq
sails (2) - 39 freq
taids (2) - 2 freq
pails (2) - 14 freq
taims (2) - 1 freq
taigs (2) - 2 freq
tail (2) - 265 freq
trails (2) - 14 freq
hails (2) - 6 freq
jails (2) - 1 freq
mails (2) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - T420
talk - 496 freq
tales - 149 freq
tells - 266 freq
teels - 2 freq
till's - 3 freq
tale's - 7 freq
tails - 54 freq
tolk - 2 freq
thowless - 5 freq
tools - 47 freq
talks - 59 freq
tiles - 16 freq
tuils - 13 freq
til's - 6 freq
telly's - 1 freq
tills - 4 freq
tials - 1 freq
tooels - 3 freq
tell's - 7 freq
tillies - 1 freq
taillis - 13 freq
tuilzie - 5 freq
'taillis - 1 freq
tellies - 5 freq
tulk - 2 freq
thoweless - 2 freq
tullus - 2 freq
tulzie - 3 freq
tles - 1 freq
tholes - 17 freq
'talk - 1 freq
towls - 1 freq
tellys - 2 freq
tail's - 2 freq
tallahassee - 1 freq
talk' - 2 freq
taels - 2 freq
telc - 1 freq
theology - 7 freq
tels - 4 freq
towless - 1 freq
thawless - 1 freq
tyls - 1 freq
talks' - 1 freq
'talk' - 1 freq
tullys - 3 freq
tolls - 1 freq
tallywheech - 1 freq
theologie - 1 freq
tull's - 1 freq
tulloch - 8 freq
talkie - 4 freq
tully's - 2 freq
taills - 2 freq
towels - 5 freq
tallis - 1 freq
toowels - 1 freq
tallies - 1 freq
tyles - 1 freq
€œtales - 1 freq
talc - 1 freq
theluke - 1 freq
ttilxe - 1 freq
tulya's - 1 freq
tulyaÂ’s - 1 freq
tllc - 1 freq
tallyÂ’s - 2 freq
'tally's - 1 freq
teallach - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TLS
doylies - 1 freq
tales - 149 freq
tells - 266 freq
teels - 2 freq
till's - 3 freq
tale's - 7 freq
tails - 54 freq
deil's - 22 freq
dolly's - 19 freq
daels - 9 freq
tools - 47 freq
tiles - 16 freq
dials - 11 freq
dallies - 5 freq
tuils - 13 freq
til's - 6 freq
telly's - 1 freq
tills - 4 freq
daeless - 4 freq
de'ils - 2 freq
tooels - 3 freq
tell's - 7 freq
dulse - 9 freq
tillies - 1 freq
taillis - 13 freq
tuilzie - 5 freq
dales - 6 freq
'taillis - 1 freq
tellies - 5 freq
deals - 18 freq
dells - 1 freq
doll's - 6 freq
tullus - 2 freq
dullies - 2 freq
tulzie - 3 freq
dolls - 11 freq
dolce - 1 freq
tles - 1 freq
deils - 35 freq
dollies - 4 freq
towls - 1 freq
tellys - 2 freq
delays - 1 freq
doilies - 1 freq
tail's - 2 freq
döless - 1 freq
taels - 2 freq
deualess - 1 freq
dæls - 1 freq
diels - 2 freq
dahlias - 2 freq
tels - 4 freq
dowless - 2 freq
towless - 1 freq
tyls - 1 freq
dailies - 1 freq
døless - 6 freq
dills - 1 freq
tullys - 3 freq
doles - 1 freq
tolls - 1 freq
tull's - 1 freq
dulls - 1 freq
tully's - 2 freq
dallie's - 1 freq
taills - 2 freq
tallis - 1 freq
dahl's - 1 freq
tallies - 1 freq
tyles - 1 freq
€œtales - 1 freq
dalls - 1 freq
dools - 1 freq
dallas - 1 freq
dlawso - 2 freq
tallyÂ’s - 2 freq
'tally's - 1 freq
dileas - 1 freq
TAILS
tail - 265 freq
tails - 54 freq
tailing - freq
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.182450 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 - 0.325657 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 - 0.027986 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 - 0.037718 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 - 0.001067 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.