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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to anas in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
anas (0) - 9 freq
anal (1) - 1 freq
ans (1) - 2 freq
inas (1) - 1 freq
anar (1) - 1 freq
ana' (1) - 3 freq
annas (1) - 2 freq
aas (1) - 6 freq
knas (1) - 1 freq
anaw (1) - 195 freq
an's (1) - 4 freq
anaa (1) - 20 freq
alas (1) - 42 freq
ants (1) - 5 freq
nanas (1) - 1 freq
anat (1) - 1 freq
anes (1) - 218 freq
anns (1) - 1 freq
ana (1) - 143 freq
anae (1) - 1 freq
aqs (2) - 1 freq
agae (2) - 2 freq
loas (2) - 2 freq
dans (2) - 3 freq
aines (2) - 2 freq
anas (0) - 9 freq
anes (1) - 218 freq
inas (1) - 1 freq
ans (1) - 2 freq
aans (2) - 1 freq
ons (2) - 1 freq
noas (2) - 2 freq
aeneas (2) - 3 freq
enes (2) - 2 freq
anso (2) - 1 freq
einas (2) - 1 freq
eans (2) - 10 freq
ains (2) - 14 freq
ones (2) - 30 freq
anse (2) - 4 freq
ns (2) - 15 freq
nis (2) - 2 freq
unis (2) - 3 freq
nasa (2) - 17 freq
ins (2) - 14 freq
aines (2) - 2 freq
nus (2) - 5 freq
ens (2) - 16 freq
onus (2) - 3 freq
nes (2) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - A520
aince - 454 freq
ang - 8 freq
aneugh - 15 freq
aneuch - 30 freq
anes - 218 freq
ain-och - 1 freq
an---och - 1 freq
anyweys - 1 freq
ance - 69 freq
awns - 17 freq
angie - 36 freq
'angie - 5 freq
anxi - 4 freq
anas - 9 freq
anyways - 12 freq
amuse - 8 freq
awmous - 4 freq
ane's - 11 freq
annoys - 4 freq
amok - 1 freq
aims - 13 freq
a-miss - 1 freq
annie's - 8 freq
aeons - 1 freq
amyoose - 1 freq
ains - 14 freq
amaze - 4 freq
anna's - 3 freq
anq - 2 freq
aums - 1 freq
aeneas - 3 freq
anes' - 2 freq
'aince - 1 freq
an-och - 1 freq
amiss - 16 freq
anagh - 1 freq
an-ugh - 1 freq
ann's - 4 freq
anne's - 2 freq
annas - 2 freq
amos - 3 freq
am's - 2 freq
an's - 4 freq
amnesia - 1 freq
ank - 1 freq
anyoch - 25 freq
aamos - 5 freq
annies - 1 freq
ameise - 1 freq
aence - 8 freq
ameuse - 1 freq
annexe - 1 freq
anso - 1 freq
amuck - 1 freq
ans - 2 freq
aa'hing - 5 freq
anse - 4 freq
aneoch - 2 freq
an'-qh - 1 freq
ain's - 3 freq
aans - 1 freq
annays - 1 freq
'anus' - 1 freq
€œaneugh - 1 freq
annex - 4 freq
€œaince - 4 freq
amico - 1 freq
a-muigh - 1 freq
ange - 1 freq
anzio - 1 freq
aeyhing - 1 freq
€™ang - 2 freq
aines - 2 freq
ahing - 1 freq
anns - 1 freq
awmox - 1 freq
angieh - 1 freq
aÂ’hinÂ’s - 1 freq
aneÂ’s - 1 freq
aimee's - 1 freq
anyhoos - 13 freq
aeonmag - 1 freq
a'hing - 4 freq
annjj - 1 freq
aewing - 1 freq
ayoung - 1 freq
amigo - 3 freq
amys - 1 freq
amc - 1 freq
annec - 3 freq
ammys - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - ANS
aince - 454 freq
anes - 218 freq
ance - 69 freq
awns - 17 freq
anas - 9 freq
ane's - 11 freq
annoys - 4 freq
annie's - 8 freq
ains - 14 freq
anna's - 3 freq
anes' - 2 freq
'aince - 1 freq
ann's - 4 freq
anne's - 2 freq
annas - 2 freq
an's - 4 freq
annies - 1 freq
anso - 1 freq
ans - 2 freq
anse - 4 freq
ain's - 3 freq
aans - 1 freq
annays - 1 freq
'anus' - 1 freq
€œaince - 4 freq
anzio - 1 freq
aines - 2 freq
anns - 1 freq
aneÂ’s - 1 freq
ANAS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.195867 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 - 0.455757 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 - 0.060873 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 - 0.036576 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 - 0.000818 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.