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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to creches in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
creches (0) - 1 freq
creshes (1) - 1 freq
creates (2) - 9 freq
streches (2) - 1 freq
erches (2) - 1 freq
preaches (2) - 2 freq
créches (2) - 1 freq
couches (2) - 2 freq
arches (2) - 17 freq
riches (2) - 23 freq
crehs (2) - 1 freq
czechs (2) - 1 freq
crochet (2) - 6 freq
crashes (2) - 7 freq
breeches (2) - 1 freq
crushes (2) - 1 freq
beeches (2) - 1 freq
wretches (2) - 1 freq
clenches (2) - 1 freq
catches (2) - 34 freq
coaches (2) - 9 freq
brenches (2) - 10 freq
leeches (2) - 4 freq
crathes (2) - 1 freq
creases (2) - 1 freq
creches (0) - 1 freq
crouches (2) - 2 freq
creshes (2) - 1 freq
breaches (3) - 3 freq
reaches (3) - 24 freq
crathes (3) - 1 freq
coaches (3) - 9 freq
screeches (3) - 3 freq
screiches (3) - 1 freq
crutches (3) - 3 freq
crunches (3) - 4 freq
crotches (3) - 1 freq
crecls (3) - 1 freq
crochets (3) - 1 freq
crushes (3) - 1 freq
catches (3) - 34 freq
riches (3) - 23 freq
crochet (3) - 6 freq
couches (3) - 2 freq
czechs (3) - 1 freq
crehs (3) - 1 freq
crashes (3) - 7 freq
erches (3) - 1 freq
breeches (3) - 1 freq
preaches (3) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - C622
charges - 16 freq
cross-examine - 10 freq
crossexaminin - 1 freq
coorsest - 3 freq
crush-curvin - 1 freq
carsackie - 1 freq
caresses - 3 freq
corses - 1 freq
cargos - 1 freq
circus - 32 freq
course-'gin - 1 freq
cruises - 6 freq
carcass - 9 freq
crisis - 31 freq
choruses - 9 freq
crosses - 11 freq
crashes - 7 freq
crocuses - 2 freq
cuirasses - 1 freq
cruisies - 9 freq
corkey's - 1 freq
cairriages - 4 freq
craigy's - 4 freq
crisis' - 1 freq
coorses - 16 freq
cargoes - 2 freq
courageous - 3 freq
curses - 8 freq
courses - 13 freq
corsican - 4 freq
craigie's - 1 freq
chairges - 11 freq
craigies - 3 freq
cairrages - 1 freq
créches - 1 freq
churches' - 1 freq
crises - 1 freq
cross-examines - 1 freq
cross-checkit - 1 freq
chrisses - 6 freq
circuses - 1 freq
creches - 1 freq
carriages - 1 freq
churches - 12 freq
circassia - 1 freq
circassian - 3 freq
chrissie's - 1 freq
carcasses - 4 freq
coorse-kind - 1 freq
carcassonne - 1 freq
caircass - 1 freq
carcase - 1 freq
crouches - 2 freq
crocus - 5 freq
cragis - 1 freq
creases - 1 freq
crushes - 1 freq
croesus - 1 freq
cherges - 2 freq
creshes - 1 freq
craighouse - 1 freq
carcages - 2 freq
crqwwj - 1 freq
craigakconnolly - 1 freq
creakyjoints - 1 freq
craigyc - 2 freq
crossways - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KRXS
crashes - 7 freq
crutches - 3 freq
créches - 1 freq
creches - 1 freq
crotches - 1 freq
crouches - 2 freq
crushes - 1 freq
creshes - 1 freq
CRECHES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.271083 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 - 0.426423 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 - 0.030775 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 - 0.040243 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 - 0.001042 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.