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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to boxes in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
boxes (0) - 63 freq
boxer (1) - 28 freq
boxed (1) - 7 freq
boaxes (1) - 4 freq
boyes (1) - 2 freq
bowes (1) - 1 freq
boies (1) - 1 freq
boxies (1) - 4 freq
box's (1) - 15 freq
boxen (1) - 1 freq
foxes (1) - 9 freq
bores (1) - 5 freq
boles (1) - 1 freq
boxers (1) - 1 freq
bones (1) - 61 freq
bodes (1) - 3 freq
votes (2) - 69 freq
moses (2) - 68 freq
byres (2) - 21 freq
boers (2) - 1 freq
bogies (2) - 3 freq
hopes (2) - 37 freq
mixes (2) - 4 freq
bowks (2) - 1 freq
popes (2) - 1 freq
boxes (0) - 63 freq
boxies (1) - 4 freq
boaxes (1) - 4 freq
bores (2) - 5 freq
bxs (2) - 2 freq
bones (2) - 61 freq
bodes (2) - 3 freq
foxes (2) - 9 freq
boxers (2) - 1 freq
boles (2) - 1 freq
boxer (2) - 28 freq
boxen (2) - 1 freq
boyes (2) - 2 freq
boxed (2) - 7 freq
bowes (2) - 1 freq
boies (2) - 1 freq
box's (2) - 15 freq
byles (3) - 5 freq
boxan (3) - 1 freq
bouets (3) - 1 freq
bools (3) - 23 freq
boy's (3) - 48 freq
bykes (3) - 1 freq
bayes (3) - 1 freq
boits (3) - 10 freq
SoundEx code - B220
beeches - 1 freq
baukies - 2 freq
because - 695 freq
'because - 42 freq
busses - 18 freq
beeswax - 5 freq
beuchs - 4 freq
baggage - 10 freq
beukcase - 1 freq
beseek - 1 freq
bookies - 25 freq
bushes - 41 freq
bookie's - 12 freq
buskis - 1 freq
begeck - 14 freq
buses - 45 freq
baggies - 7 freq
bessie's - 3 freq
basic - 47 freq
bakehoose - 1 freq
buckie's - 3 freq
bazooka - 2 freq
boxes - 63 freq
backies - 5 freq
becis - 40 freq
bosses - 9 freq
backweys - 1 freq
bikes - 31 freq
bosy's - 1 freq
basses - 2 freq
buises - 1 freq
beaches - 11 freq
boughs - 7 freq
beseiks - 1 freq
baggy's - 5 freq
becouse - 2 freq
bicuss - 1 freq
backswash - 1 freq
bacchus - 1 freq
boaxes - 4 freq
bahoukies - 1 freq
buses' - 1 freq
bakes - 16 freq
bak-waash - 1 freq
basis - 45 freq
bases - 6 freq
baecaas - 44 freq
boyzees - 1 freq
buggies - 3 freq
buckies - 11 freq
becas - 5 freq
''becas - 1 freq
becas' - 1 freq
backwyes - 1 freq
beeces - 1 freq
begowks - 1 freq
begowk - 2 freq
basics - 7 freq
bahoochies - 1 freq
bogies - 3 freq
bagwash - 2 freq
becaas - 9 freq
becase - 15 freq
beca'se - 1 freq
bosies - 18 freq
buzzes - 4 freq
bekis - 6 freq
boogie-woogie - 2 freq
backhoose - 2 freq
beciss - 1 freq
becaase - 6 freq
beseech - 2 freq
buke's - 2 freq
bookish - 1 freq
'becis - 2 freq
buikies - 3 freq
bogus - 3 freq
boxies - 4 freq
bacchic - 2 freq
beseik - 1 freq
bigake - 5 freq
backwyse - 1 freq
bakkies - 1 freq
boxie's - 1 freq
bykes - 1 freq
bougies - 1 freq
bakis - 1 freq
bikies - 1 freq
bukes - 1 freq
buikish - 1 freq
becise - 1 freq
€œbecause - 8 freq
basques - 1 freq
becus - 1 freq
biases - 1 freq
bawsacks - 2 freq
bashes - 1 freq
biggish - 2 freq
backsyke - 1 freq
bookcase - 2 freq
backwise - 1 freq
bussies - 1 freq
begecks - 1 freq
bekiss - 2 freq
bogeys - 1 freq
bakehous - 1 freq
biqyxh - 1 freq
bugsyÂ’s - 1 freq
bazuka - 1 freq
bigsesh - 1 freq
becky's - 1 freq
bahookies - 2 freq
bsauzee - 1 freq
bfbaguzqha - 1 freq
bxwojh - 1 freq
backake - 1 freq
bessieÂ’s - 1 freq
bawjaws - 3 freq
bsyz - 1 freq
bakesy - 1 freq
bizcocho - 1 freq
bjawk - 1 freq
becos - 1 freq
bigissue - 1 freq
bsuk - 3 freq
bigjock - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - BKSS
boxes - 63 freq
box's - 15 freq
boaxes - 4 freq
boxies - 4 freq
boxie's - 1 freq
bugsyÂ’s - 1 freq
bxs - 2 freq
bqsz - 1 freq
bex's - 1 freq
bxz - 1 freq
BOXES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.205536 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 - 0.393556 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 - 0.027711 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 - 0.040497 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 - 0.000856 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.