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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to chords in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
chords (0) - 8 freq
chord (1) - 7 freq
chord' (1) - 1 freq
cords (1) - 5 freq
chorus (1) - 64 freq
chores (1) - 9 freq
chokes (2) - 2 freq
fjords (2) - 2 freq
coads (2) - 1 freq
hoods (2) - 5 freq
'words (2) - 1 freq
choss (2) - 2 freq
choiss (2) - 2 freq
cerds (2) - 1 freq
hordes (2) - 1 freq
corps (2) - 13 freq
horde (2) - 1 freq
chirls (2) - 2 freq
herds (2) - 19 freq
crouds (2) - 2 freq
shores (2) - 21 freq
words (2) - 802 freq
hoards (2) - 4 freq
whores (2) - 2 freq
cairds (2) - 88 freq
chords (0) - 8 freq
chord (2) - 7 freq
chorus (2) - 64 freq
chores (2) - 9 freq
chord' (2) - 1 freq
cords (2) - 5 freq
chris (3) - 253 freq
cards (3) - 33 freq
shards (3) - 11 freq
childs (3) - 1 freq
thirds (3) - 2 freq
chordal (3) - 1 freq
curds (3) - 3 freq
chored (3) - 9 freq
croods (3) - 30 freq
cooerds (3) - 1 freq
chories (3) - 1 freq
churns (3) - 4 freq
coards (3) - 1 freq
cooards (3) - 2 freq
i'chords (3) - 1 freq
chirms (3) - 2 freq
cairds (3) - 88 freq
chard (3) - 1 freq
cherms (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - C632
carrots - 30 freq
creetics - 5 freq
certes - 23 freq
curtsey - 5 freq
curtseyin - 6 freq
cairds - 88 freq
crates - 6 freq
critical - 19 freq
cardigans - 5 freq
creiticism - 5 freq
cairt's - 1 freq
cairridges - 1 freq
cairts - 32 freq
certies - 17 freq
courtships - 1 freq
cooards - 2 freq
criticeese - 1 freq
cortex - 1 freq
caretaker - 5 freq
critics - 17 freq
crouds - 2 freq
cheritie's - 1 freq
creates - 8 freq
cartesian - 1 freq
cards - 33 freq
cardigan - 18 freq
croods - 30 freq
curates' - 1 freq
curates - 3 freq
courteously - 1 freq
cords - 5 freq
chariots - 1 freq
carret's - 3 freq
chords - 8 freq
courts - 14 freq
crootched - 3 freq
crootchin - 2 freq
creeds - 1 freq
cowards - 5 freq
critically - 1 freq
crits - 1 freq
courtesy - 8 freq
cardiac - 2 freq
cowardess - 1 freq
crutches - 3 freq
criticise - 11 freq
criticism - 19 freq
crowds - 28 freq
carthage - 2 freq
charts - 8 freq
cowardice - 3 freq
carts - 2 freq
curtsy - 1 freq
cairry-oots - 1 freq
coort-case - 1 freq
cyaards - 9 freq
cyaards' - 1 freq
crutch - 4 freq
creauts - 1 freq
coorts - 9 freq
critic - 4 freq
coort-hoose - 1 freq
crowd's - 1 freq
cortege - 1 freq
cairtclaith - 1 freq
creiticall - 1 freq
criticeise - 2 freq
cruds - 2 freq
chairts - 8 freq
coortesy - 1 freq
cairrots - 7 freq
criticisms - 3 freq
crotches - 1 freq
curds - 3 freq
charities - 4 freq
croudged - 1 freq
currots - 1 freq
cooerds - 1 freq
cooerd's - 1 freq
cooardice - 1 freq
'cooards' - 1 freq
crowdieknowe - 1 freq
cortesia - 1 freq
curtsies - 1 freq
curtseyan - 1 freq
'critically - 1 freq
coards - 1 freq
caerds - 1 freq
criticeised - 1 freq
cyaard's - 2 freq
coowards - 1 freq
creitical - 5 freq
creiticised - 1 freq
criticised - 2 freq
critiseesms - 2 freq
creitics - 3 freq
cartographers - 2 freq
creetic - 1 freq
creeticism - 1 freq
cardies - 1 freq
cairtshed - 2 freq
coortship - 1 freq
couarts - 1 freq
cairties - 1 freq
cartowes - 1 freq
curtassie - 1 freq
criticeizin - 1 freq
cairtes - 1 freq
cooarts - 1 freq
cheriots - 2 freq
coortesan - 1 freq
crotchety - 1 freq
€œchariots - 1 freq
courtesan - 2 freq
chairiots - 1 freq
caretakers - 2 freq
courtship - 1 freq
€˜cratic - 1 freq
cairds- - 1 freq
criticising - 3 freq
critique - 2 freq
caird's - 2 freq
crathes - 1 freq
crathescastle - 1 freq
cortese - 1 freq
cerds - 1 freq
curtismccraw - 2 freq
criticalrole - 4 freq
crotch - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - XRTS
shairds - 5 freq
shorts - 40 freq
shards - 11 freq
cheritie's - 1 freq
shirts - 19 freq
shreds - 7 freq
chariots - 1 freq
chords - 8 freq
sherds - 2 freq
charts - 8 freq
shirt's - 2 freq
chairts - 8 freq
charities - 4 freq
'shoarts' - 1 freq
shoarts - 3 freq
shroods - 2 freq
cheriots - 2 freq
€œchariots - 1 freq
chairiots - 1 freq
shrouds - 1 freq
CHORDS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.183073 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 - 0.351622 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 - 0.033956 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 - 0.037423 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 - 0.000844 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.