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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to buses in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
buses (0) - 45 freq
bushes (1) - 41 freq
puses (1) - 1 freq
uses (1) - 47 freq
busses (1) - 18 freq
busts (1) - 2 freq
muses (1) - 7 freq
butes (1) - 2 freq
abuses (1) - 4 freq
busens (1) - 1 freq
busks (1) - 3 freq
buses' (1) - 1 freq
fuses (1) - 1 freq
bases (1) - 6 freq
buss (1) - 34 freq
ruses (1) - 1 freq
buises (1) - 1 freq
bukes (1) - 1 freq
mutes (2) - 1 freq
suss (2) - 7 freq
hures (2) - 1 freq
bites (2) - 23 freq
eeses (2) - 1 freq
burnes (2) - 2 freq
boyes (2) - 2 freq
buses (0) - 45 freq
buises (1) - 1 freq
abuses (1) - 4 freq
bases (1) - 6 freq
buss (1) - 34 freq
byuss (2) - 1 freq
bauss (2) - 1 freq
boss (2) - 93 freq
basis (2) - 45 freq
bushes (2) - 41 freq
bess (2) - 35 freq
biases (2) - 1 freq
bass (2) - 28 freq
biss (2) - 2 freq
bosies (2) - 18 freq
bukes (2) - 1 freq
busts (2) - 2 freq
ruses (2) - 1 freq
busses (2) - 18 freq
uses (2) - 47 freq
puses (2) - 1 freq
butes (2) - 2 freq
muses (2) - 7 freq
fuses (2) - 1 freq
busens (2) - 1 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 - BSS
busses - 18 freq
buses - 45 freq
bessie's - 3 freq
becis - 40 freq
bosses - 9 freq
bosy's - 1 freq
basses - 2 freq
buises - 1 freq
buses' - 1 freq
basis - 45 freq
bases - 6 freq
boyzees - 1 freq
beeces - 1 freq
bosies - 18 freq
buzzes - 4 freq
boss's - 1 freq
beciss - 1 freq
'becis - 2 freq
becise - 1 freq
biases - 1 freq
bussies - 1 freq
bsauzee - 1 freq
bessieÂ’s - 1 freq
bsyz - 1 freq
BUSES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.183890 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 - 0.358714 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 - 0.028345 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 - 0.037584 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 - 0.000847 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.