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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to coaches in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
coaches (0) - 9 freq
coached (1) - 1 freq
coach's (1) - 1 freq
couches (1) - 2 freq
teaches (2) - 3 freq
pouches (2) - 5 freq
reaches (2) - 21 freq
coach (2) - 51 freq
poached (2) - 4 freq
coackles (2) - 1 freq
hooches (2) - 1 freq
peaches (2) - 2 freq
touches (2) - 21 freq
crouches (2) - 2 freq
clathes (2) - 8 freq
crathes (2) - 1 freq
coshes (2) - 1 freq
crotches (2) - 1 freq
coachin (2) - 1 freq
leaches (2) - 3 freq
aches (2) - 10 freq
coagles (2) - 1 freq
apaches (2) - 3 freq
pooches (2) - 44 freq
clashes (2) - 2 freq
coaches (0) - 9 freq
couches (1) - 2 freq
coach's (2) - 1 freq
coached (2) - 1 freq
apaches (3) - 3 freq
aches (3) - 10 freq
coachin (3) - 1 freq
pooches (3) - 44 freq
leaches (3) - 3 freq
beaches (3) - 11 freq
cochise (3) - 5 freq
cachet (3) - 1 freq
coshes (3) - 1 freq
catches (3) - 31 freq
creches (3) - 1 freq
hooches (3) - 1 freq
coach (3) - 51 freq
reaches (3) - 21 freq
teaches (3) - 3 freq
peaches (3) - 2 freq
pouches (3) - 5 freq
crouches (3) - 2 freq
touches (3) - 21 freq
daiches (4) - 2 freq
eitches (4) - 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 - KXS
coaches - 9 freq
catches - 31 freq
keechs - 1 freq
quaichs - 4 freq
catche's - 1 freq
gushes - 5 freq
cautious - 8 freq
cowshus - 5 freq
kishies - 4 freq
cochise - 5 freq
cowtious - 1 freq
coach's - 1 freq
coshes - 1 freq
couches - 2 freq
kechs - 1 freq
COACHES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.175245 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 - 0.351109 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 - 0.027559 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 - 0.036792 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 - 0.000755 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.