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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to dives in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
dives (0) - 7 freq
rives (1) - 4 freq
gives (1) - 19 freq
divers (1) - 10 freq
daves (1) - 2 freq
hives (1) - 2 freq
doves (1) - 2 freq
dides (1) - 1 freq
dies (1) - 5 freq
dived (1) - 21 freq
nives (1) - 2 freq
div's (1) - 1 freq
diver (1) - 5 freq
dikes (1) - 3 freq
lives (1) - 236 freq
deives (1) - 1 freq
fives (1) - 7 freq
drives (1) - 27 freq
wives (1) - 42 freq
dive (1) - 43 freq
dieh (2) - 1 freq
luves (2) - 16 freq
direk (2) - 2 freq
mimes (2) - 3 freq
joves (2) - 2 freq
dives (0) - 7 freq
doves (1) - 2 freq
daves (1) - 2 freq
deives (1) - 1 freq
lives (2) - 236 freq
fives (2) - 7 freq
wives (2) - 42 freq
davies (2) - 13 freq
davis (2) - 7 freq
deeves (2) - 1 freq
dikes (2) - 3 freq
dive (2) - 43 freq
drives (2) - 27 freq
hives (2) - 2 freq
diver (2) - 5 freq
divers (2) - 10 freq
gives (2) - 19 freq
dides (2) - 1 freq
rives (2) - 4 freq
nives (2) - 2 freq
div's (2) - 1 freq
dies (2) - 5 freq
dived (2) - 21 freq
dukes (3) - 9 freq
dis (3) - 1549 freq
SoundEx code - D120
dips - 11 freq
dabs - 5 freq
daubs - 1 freq
davis - 7 freq
diffuse - 2 freq
div's - 1 freq
deeps - 7 freq
devious - 4 freq
deep-sea - 4 freq
davies - 13 freq
dives - 7 freq
dowfhike - 1 freq
dabs' - 1 freq
dubs - 84 freq
dobbies - 2 freq
device - 23 freq
daffs - 3 freq
davie's - 36 freq
devise - 2 freq
dybbuk's - 1 freq
depose - 1 freq
defuse - 2 freq
dubious - 3 freq
doffs - 1 freq
deep-sey - 1 freq
dfs - 2 freq
diffs - 2 freq
davy's - 1 freq
duffy's - 4 freq
deeves - 1 freq
daffik - 2 freq
doupies - 1 freq
deips - 1 freq
daffies - 4 freq
davoo's - 1 freq
dfc - 2 freq
devyse - 2 freq
daffiks - 1 freq
dpis - 1 freq
dowps - 6 freq
daffys - 1 freq
debauch - 1 freq
dpbc - 1 freq
doves - 2 freq
deives - 1 freq
defeck - 1 freq
duffs - 2 freq
dps - 1 freq
defies - 2 freq
dpbz - 1 freq
dpz - 1 freq
dbz - 1 freq
dfpz - 1 freq
dpke - 5 freq
debs - 1 freq
dbyg - 1 freq
daveg - 1 freq
dwbaqh - 1 freq
dfkxa - 1 freq
debbie's - 1 freq
ddaps - 1 freq
dbis - 1 freq
daves - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - TFS
davis - 7 freq
diffuse - 2 freq
div's - 1 freq
devious - 4 freq
davies - 13 freq
dives - 7 freq
device - 23 freq
daffs - 3 freq
davie's - 36 freq
devise - 2 freq
toffees - 2 freq
toffs - 13 freq
defuse - 2 freq
doffs - 1 freq
dfs - 2 freq
diffs - 2 freq
davy's - 1 freq
duffy's - 4 freq
deeves - 1 freq
tighes - 1 freq
tiefs - 2 freq
daffies - 4 freq
davoo's - 1 freq
devyse - 2 freq
dughoose - 1 freq
taves - 4 freq
'taves' - 1 freq
toves - 1 freq
tief's - 1 freq
tvs - 2 freq
daffys - 1 freq
typhus - 1 freq
doves - 2 freq
deives - 1 freq
duffs - 2 freq
defies - 2 freq
teefs - 1 freq
daves - 2 freq
DIVES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.336935 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 - 0.690824 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 - 0.079382 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 - 0.088678 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 - 0.000828 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.