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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to cakes in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
cakes (0) - 54 freq
hakes (1) - 1 freq
rakes (1) - 6 freq
caked (1) - 6 freq
sakes (1) - 22 freq
bakes (1) - 16 freq
kakes (1) - 1 freq
fakes (1) - 2 freq
caves (1) - 16 freq
canes (1) - 2 freq
takes (1) - 125 freq
makes (1) - 177 freq
jakes (1) - 3 freq
cakies (1) - 1 freq
cases (1) - 54 freq
cages (1) - 8 freq
wakes (1) - 10 freq
dakes (1) - 1 freq
cares (1) - 58 freq
cake (1) - 165 freq
cokes (1) - 2 freq
lakes (1) - 2 freq
cafes (1) - 6 freq
caries (2) - 1 freq
caaen (2) - 4 freq
cakes (0) - 54 freq
cakies (1) - 1 freq
cokes (1) - 2 freq
cages (2) - 8 freq
wakes (2) - 10 freq
cases (2) - 54 freq
dakes (2) - 1 freq
cake (2) - 165 freq
coks (2) - 1 freq
cafes (2) - 6 freq
jakes (2) - 3 freq
cares (2) - 58 freq
lakes (2) - 2 freq
makes (2) - 177 freq
hakes (2) - 1 freq
caked (2) - 6 freq
rakes (2) - 6 freq
bakes (2) - 16 freq
sakes (2) - 22 freq
takes (2) - 125 freq
kakes (2) - 1 freq
canes (2) - 2 freq
fakes (2) - 2 freq
caves (2) - 16 freq
lykes (3) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - C220
chuckies - 25 freq
cakes - 54 freq
coaches - 9 freq
chices - 1 freq
causeys - 4 freq
écossais - 1 freq
cases - 54 freq
cassie's - 2 freq
chookies - 19 freq
coughs - 6 freq
chyces - 15 freq
cheques - 13 freq
causies - 6 freq
chicago - 3 freq
cages - 8 freq
coggies - 1 freq
choices - 26 freq
cuckoo's - 2 freq
chookie's - 10 freq
caises - 2 freq
cokes - 2 freq
causes - 23 freq
chooses - 7 freq
ciggies - 2 freq
cheeses - 1 freq
cossack - 8 freq
chazza's - 1 freq
cozzies - 1 freq
cookies - 10 freq
ca'ses - 1 freq
chases - 7 freq
choises - 1 freq
casses - 1 freq
'chookies - 1 freq
'chook-chook - 1 freq
chasies - 1 freq
cowshus - 5 freq
chookies' - 1 freq
cassies - 6 freq
caases - 3 freq
chassis - 4 freq
chuckie's - 1 freq
chiesis - 1 freq
chicawgie - 2 freq
coo-cake - 1 freq
cochise - 5 freq
caesses - 2 freq
causays - 1 freq
chokes - 2 freq
coach's - 1 freq
€˜chiesis - 1 freq
chukkies - 2 freq
coke's - 1 freq
chyges - 2 freq
cokkis - 1 freq
cakies - 1 freq
couscous - 2 freq
coshes - 1 freq
couches - 2 freq
Écossaise - 1 freq
choukies - 2 freq
cosies - 1 freq
cocoaooze - 1 freq
cascasg - 1 freq
coigach - 1 freq
chachacha - 1 freq
czechs - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KKS
cakes - 54 freq
kicks - 27 freq
cogs - 2 freq
guckie's - 1 freq
kegs - 8 freq
cuiks - 2 freq
keeks - 15 freq
cocks - 11 freq
kecks - 5 freq
cooks - 5 freq
coggies - 1 freq
gawks - 6 freq
gowks - 11 freq
gags - 2 freq
cuckoo's - 2 freq
cock's - 3 freq
cokes - 2 freq
quacks - 1 freq
cox - 5 freq
cookies - 10 freq
gucci - 2 freq
gcse - 5 freq
coks - 1 freq
kakes - 1 freq
kieks - 3 freq
coax - 4 freq
goggie's - 1 freq
cowks - 1 freq
coax' - 1 freq
gouk's - 1 freq
gowk's - 1 freq
€˜cacks - 1 freq
coke's - 1 freq
cokkis - 1 freq
cakies - 1 freq
keks - 4 freq
kecksie - 1 freq
€™goggz - 1 freq
cx - 5 freq
ckykzz - 1 freq
kx - 6 freq
cocoaooze - 1 freq
gx - 4 freq
gcsw - 1 freq
kczoe - 1 freq
qikz - 1 freq
kxx - 1 freq
ggks - 1 freq
gxx - 1 freq
goksu - 1 freq
coxÂ’ - 1 freq
hwkqz - 1 freq
kickass - 1 freq
gxh - 1 freq
kgs - 1 freq
gcs - 1 freq
koxo - 2 freq
ygx - 1 freq
cxi - 1 freq
cxy - 1 freq
kix - 1 freq
qiyx - 1 freq
qx - 1 freq
qex - 1 freq
kxo - 1 freq
kxiw - 1 freq
goggsy - 1 freq
cgsa - 1 freq
kaikos - 1 freq
CAKES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.198738 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 - 0.374641 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 - 0.028202 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 - 0.038908 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 - 0.000812 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.