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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to calories in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
calories (0) - 11 freq
caloris (1) - 2 freq
calorie (1) - 1 freq
coories (2) - 5 freq
chories (2) - 1 freq
cairries (2) - 36 freq
mamories (2) - 1 freq
calvaries (2) - 1 freq
canopies (2) - 2 freq
glories (2) - 9 freq
cairies (2) - 4 freq
carries (2) - 10 freq
caries (2) - 1 freq
calfies (2) - 4 freq
colonies (2) - 7 freq
salaries (2) - 3 freq
melodies (3) - 3 freq
favorits (3) - 1 freq
cakies (3) - 1 freq
cairried (3) - 143 freq
caddies (3) - 2 freq
cherries (3) - 5 freq
galeries' (3) - 1 freq
cassies (3) - 6 freq
chirries (3) - 1 freq
calories (0) - 11 freq
caloris (1) - 2 freq
calorie (2) - 1 freq
caries (3) - 1 freq
carries (3) - 10 freq
calfies (3) - 4 freq
cairies (3) - 4 freq
colors (3) - 1 freq
salaries (3) - 3 freq
colonies (3) - 7 freq
glories (3) - 9 freq
chories (3) - 1 freq
cairries (3) - 36 freq
coories (3) - 5 freq
calvaries (3) - 1 freq
curries (4) - 7 freq
courries (4) - 1 freq
cairres (4) - 1 freq
claried (4) - 1 freq
collies (4) - 1 freq
calves (4) - 4 freq
calfes (4) - 1 freq
cores (4) - 3 freq
lalors (4) - 1 freq
corries (4) - 14 freq
SoundEx code - C462
colours - 98 freq
clark - 32 freq
clerk - 24 freq
clarsach - 7 freq
clair's - 5 freq
clearest - 4 freq
clerk's - 1 freq
collars - 8 freq
clarke - 7 freq
clarker - 4 freq
clarke's - 1 freq
clerkin - 2 freq
couler's - 1 freq
clears - 19 freq
cellars - 1 freq
culross - 2 freq
calories - 11 freq
clark's - 5 freq
chollers - 1 freq
clargy - 1 freq
callers - 2 freq
colors - 1 freq
culurs - 2 freq
clarks - 5 freq
clergy - 2 freq
colour's - 1 freq
collar'-jist - 1 freq
clerical - 2 freq
colliers - 1 freq
caloris - 2 freq
coallieries - 1 freq
clarkin - 1 freq
clerke - 1 freq
clear's - 1 freq
clours - 1 freq
colour-coded - 2 freq
cullers - 1 freq
clarky - 2 freq
clarkston - 3 freq
cllrs - 1 freq
€˜clerk - 1 freq
clooers - 1 freq
clear-cut - 1 freq
clarkeout - 1 freq
clarkson - 3 freq
clarksville - 1 freq
cllrkathleen - 1 freq
claregrogan - 1 freq
clarknat - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - KLRS
colours - 98 freq
glouers - 1 freq
glares - 7 freq
clair's - 5 freq
glorious - 58 freq
'glorious' - 1 freq
collars - 8 freq
killers - 9 freq
couler's - 1 freq
clears - 19 freq
galleries - 8 freq
culross - 2 freq
glories - 9 freq
calories - 11 freq
galeries' - 1 freq
callers - 2 freq
colors - 1 freq
klieirs - 1 freq
culurs - 2 freq
colour's - 1 freq
glaur's - 1 freq
glawrious - 1 freq
colliers - 1 freq
caloris - 2 freq
coallieries - 1 freq
clear's - 1 freq
clours - 1 freq
cullers - 1 freq
gleers - 1 freq
glaurs - 1 freq
cllrs - 1 freq
clooers - 1 freq
keillers - 1 freq
gallers - 25 freq
CALORIES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.210886 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 - 0.365557 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 - 0.027582 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 - 0.037320 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 - 0.000767 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.