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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to cheeses in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
cheeses (0) - 1 freq
cheesers (1) - 2 freq
cheesey (1) - 3 freq
cheese (1) - 138 freq
cheesel (1) - 1 freq
chess (2) - 4 freq
cheeper (2) - 4 freq
chooses (2) - 7 freq
chenges (2) - 16 freq
cheens (2) - 4 freq
cheered (2) - 27 freq
cherges (2) - 2 freq
heezes (2) - 5 freq
clesses (2) - 54 freq
theesels (2) - 1 freq
chessel (2) - 1 freq
creases (2) - 1 freq
cheenese (2) - 1 freq
chases (2) - 7 freq
chelsea (2) - 1 freq
theses (2) - 4 freq
cheege (2) - 1 freq
reeses (2) - 1 freq
choises (2) - 1 freq
cheepers (2) - 1 freq
cheeses (0) - 1 freq
chases (2) - 7 freq
chiesis (2) - 1 freq
cheuss (2) - 2 freq
choises (2) - 1 freq
cheesers (2) - 2 freq
chooses (2) - 7 freq
cheesey (2) - 3 freq
cheese (2) - 138 freq
cheesel (2) - 1 freq
chess (2) - 4 freq
chests (3) - 7 freq
cheisels (3) - 1 freq
caesses (3) - 2 freq
cheesy (3) - 15 freq
cheeps (3) - 2 freq
cheise (3) - 1 freq
cheels (3) - 2 freq
chese (3) - 1 freq
cheesie (3) - 1 freq
chasies (3) - 1 freq
chasse (3) - 2 freq
choiss (3) - 2 freq
chessie (3) - 1 freq
cheynes (3) - 1 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 - XSS
chices - 1 freq
chyces - 15 freq
choices - 26 freq
chooses - 7 freq
cheeses - 1 freq
chazza's - 1 freq
chases - 7 freq
choises - 1 freq
chasies - 1 freq
chassis - 4 freq
chiesis - 1 freq
€˜chiesis - 1 freq
CHEESES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.285742 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 - 0.454907 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 - 0.035257 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 - 0.044210 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 - 0.000987 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.