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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to clips in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
clips (0) - 9 freq
flips (1) - 2 freq
crips (1) - 1 freq
claps (1) - 4 freq
slips (1) - 36 freq
clipes (1) - 1 freq
clip (1) - 36 freq
lips (1) - 193 freq
clipt (1) - 1 freq
chips (1) - 117 freq
clims (1) - 1 freq
caips (1) - 1 freq
clipe (1) - 9 freq
slits (2) - 4 freq
glaips (2) - 1 freq
clings (2) - 9 freq
scuips (2) - 1 freq
hips (2) - 32 freq
cains (2) - 1 freq
leps (2) - 1 freq
schips (2) - 1 freq
nips (2) - 27 freq
cowps (2) - 8 freq
chits (2) - 1 freq
climes (2) - 6 freq
clips (0) - 9 freq
clipes (1) - 1 freq
claps (1) - 4 freq
chips (2) - 117 freq
clims (2) - 1 freq
eclipse (2) - 5 freq
clipe (2) - 9 freq
clipt (2) - 1 freq
caips (2) - 1 freq
crips (2) - 1 freq
slips (2) - 36 freq
flips (2) - 2 freq
lips (2) - 193 freq
clip (2) - 36 freq
fleps (3) - 1 freq
camps (3) - 15 freq
clods (3) - 6 freq
clegs (3) - 2 freq
cuils (3) - 1 freq
elipse (3) - 1 freq
claws (3) - 31 freq
closs (3) - 61 freq
flaps (3) - 8 freq
clype (3) - 46 freq
craps (3) - 15 freq
SoundEx code - C412
cliffs - 29 freq
cluifs - 1 freq
cleavage - 8 freq
cloves - 4 freq
claps - 4 freq
clapshot - 5 freq
clubs - 102 freq
clips - 9 freq
clubhoose - 1 freq
collapsin - 6 freq
calfies - 4 freq
clubcaird - 1 freq
collapsed - 18 freq
clip--clop - 1 freq
clubby's - 3 freq
calves - 4 freq
cleaves - 1 freq
call-box - 1 freq
collapse - 16 freq
collapses - 1 freq
club's - 5 freq
clipe-clash - 1 freq
clipes - 1 freq
culfs - 2 freq
cleopas - 2 freq
clepsydra-like - 1 freq
collapsan - 1 freq
coalfish - 1 freq
cullybackey - 3 freq
clipshears - 1 freq
coal-backets - 1 freq
calfes - 1 freq
coalie-bag - 1 freq
calfskin - 1 freq
calfie's - 1 freq
calf's - 2 freq
calf-kintra - 2 freq
cliff's - 1 freq
collie-foxin - 1 freq
cleeves - 1 freq
calypso - 1 freq
€˜clubs - 1 freq
collapsing - 1 freq
clefs - 1 freq
clype-clash - 1 freq
collops - 3 freq
ceolbeg - 1 freq
celebs - 4 freq
clvzmej - 1 freq
cullybecky - 1 freq
collieback - 1 freq
celebjuice - 1 freq
colliebuckie - 1 freq
culbokster - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KLPS
claps - 4 freq
kelpies - 12 freq
clips - 9 freq
collapse - 16 freq
gulps - 6 freq
clipes - 1 freq
glipes - 8 freq
cleopas - 2 freq
glaips - 1 freq
glaeps - 2 freq
calypso - 1 freq
gollops - 1 freq
collops - 3 freq
klopps - 1 freq
CLIPS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.178516 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 - 0.327884 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 - 0.027116 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 - 0.036984 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 - 0.000786 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.