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Levenshtein Distance

Enter a word to find nearest neighbouring words, for example ahint

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Similar words to assess in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
assess (0) - 7 freq
assets (1) - 14 freq
asses (1) - 2 freq
assays (2) - 1 freq
assessed (2) - 6 freq
yassss (2) - 4 freq
asserts (2) - 1 freq
spess (2) - 1 freq
sassers (2) - 6 freq
masses (2) - 12 freq
lasses (2) - 69 freq
passes' (2) - 1 freq
passes (2) - 68 freq
lasses' (2) - 1 freq
assists (2) - 1 freq
aises (2) - 1 freq
bassless (2) - 1 freq
reassess (2) - 1 freq
casses (2) - 1 freq
assed (2) - 1 freq
usless (2) - 1 freq
assert (2) - 7 freq
abscess (2) - 3 freq
assyse (2) - 1 freq
assist (2) - 8 freq
assess (0) - 7 freq
asses (2) - 2 freq
assets (2) - 14 freq
yassss (2) - 4 freq
assis (3) - 1 freq
assyse (3) - 1 freq
assist (3) - 8 freq
usless (3) - 1 freq
casses (3) - 1 freq
assisi (3) - 2 freq
sess (3) - 3 freq
basses (3) - 2 freq
possess (3) - 10 freq
reassess (3) - 1 freq
assessin (3) - 4 freq
assessit (3) - 1 freq
yasssss (3) - 8 freq
sassers (3) - 6 freq
masses (3) - 12 freq
spess (3) - 1 freq
assessed (3) - 6 freq
assays (3) - 1 freq
passes (3) - 68 freq
lasses (3) - 69 freq
assists (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - A220
ashes - 18 freq
accuse - 6 freq
associe - 30 freq
acause - 299 freq
axis- - 3 freq
axes - 23 freq
ages - 151 freq
ases - 1 freq
access - 73 freq
'ages - 1 freq
aixes - 4 freq
aches - 10 freq
axis - 7 freq
a-go-go - 10 freq
agog - 1 freq
assess - 7 freq
aises - 1 freq
ayewcis - 1 freq
ajax - 1 freq
aces - 5 freq
askeg - 1 freq
askeq - 1 freq
asses - 2 freq
ayewcese - 1 freq
acceese - 2 freq
akses - 3 freq
assyse - 1 freq
age's - 2 freq
aizes - 1 freq
ack-ack - 1 freq
aggie's - 2 freq
accause - 9 freq
aiges - 3 freq
assuage - 3 freq
assize - 1 freq
acacia - 2 freq
assis - 1 freq
augeas's - 5 freq
augeas - 7 freq
acis - 3 freq
azac - 1 freq
agus - 3 freq
assisi - 2 freq
akis - 1 freq
aixis - 3 freq
ashak - 1 freq
ake's - 1 freq
aquas - 2 freq
assays - 1 freq
acoss - 1 freq
€˜acause - 1 freq
accies - 2 freq
acuse - 1 freq
aqueous - 1 freq
€œacause - 3 freq
ajoog - 1 freq
aisy-osie - 1 freq
a'cause - 1 freq
asez - 1 freq
aussies - 1 freq
acaus - 2 freq
aaaaages - 1 freq
acwhci - 1 freq
ace's - 1 freq
acos - 2 freq
azoaz - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - ASS
associe - 30 freq
ases - 1 freq
assess - 7 freq
aises - 1 freq
aces - 5 freq
asses - 2 freq
assyse - 1 freq
aizes - 1 freq
assize - 1 freq
assis - 1 freq
acis - 3 freq
assisi - 2 freq
assays - 1 freq
aisy-osie - 1 freq
asez - 1 freq
aussies - 1 freq
ace's - 1 freq
azoaz - 1 freq
ASSESS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.172916 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 - 0.321344 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 - 0.027100 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 - 0.036359 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 - 0.000807 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.