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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to essay in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
essay (0) - 25 freq
assay (1) - 5 freq
essays (1) - 21 freq
essay' (1) - 1 freq
'essay (1) - 1 freq
ssyy (2) - 1 freq
etsy (2) - 1 freq
essay (2) - 1 freq
messy (2) - 11 freq
slay (2) - 5 freq
esau (2) - 11 freq
bressay (2) - 1 freq
essel (2) - 1 freq
say (2) - 1 freq
shay (2) - 4 freq
plsay (2) - 1 freq
eday (2) - 5 freq
easy (2) - 436 freq
e'day (2) - 1 freq
messan (2) - 5 freq
esson (2) - 1 freq
esso (2) - 5 freq
say (2) - 3637 freq
sway (2) - 10 freq
esa (2) - 2 freq
essay (0) - 25 freq
assay (1) - 5 freq
ess (2) - 258 freq
issy (2) - 1 freq
esso (2) - 5 freq
ssyy (2) - 1 freq
essay' (2) - 1 freq
'essay (2) - 1 freq
essays (2) - 21 freq
stay (3) - 156 freq
'say (3) - 7 freq
pussay (3) - 1 freq
ss (3) - 22 freq
eess (3) - 1 freq
eisy (3) - 1 freq
susy (3) - 5 freq
assays (3) - 1 freq
issue (3) - 99 freq
iss (3) - 480 freq
assie (3) - 1 freq
eiss (3) - 31 freq
seas (3) - 56 freq
saas (3) - 8 freq
sas (3) - 4 freq
sssa (3) - 8 freq
SoundEx code - E200
egg - 95 freq
eggs - 175 freq
each - 622 freq
eyes - 612 freq
echo - 41 freq
ease - 91 freq
easy - 436 freq
ess - 258 freq
eik - 90 freq
eake - 1 freq
esq - 9 freq
eyeweys - 1 freq
eause - 2 freq
esh - 6 freq
echa - 2 freq
'easy - 2 freq
es - 798 freq
eck - 425 freq
eyez - 2 freq
ego - 14 freq
eis - 478 freq
eece - 8 freq
ehuckie - 1 freq
eck's - 26 freq
ees - 87 freq
ee's - 17 freq
eez - 30 freq
eese - 106 freq
eechie - 8 freq
eess - 1 freq
eeeze - 1 freq
eeezy - 1 freq
eek - 1 freq
ec - 18 freq
echae - 1 freq
ese - 2 freq
ex - 32 freq
eiss - 31 freq
ecih - 1 freq
eiss' - 1 freq
easie - 4 freq
eaywis - 1 freq
eesee - 3 freq
eckie - 1 freq
esso - 5 freq
eggy - 1 freq
eyck - 1 freq
eisy - 1 freq
esks - 2 freq
esk - 22 freq
esk's - 1 freq
eg - 23 freq
eos - 59 freq
ei's - 2 freq
ehs - 17 freq
exchie - 1 freq
ewes - 6 freq
-es - 1 freq
essay - 25 freq
'essay - 1 freq
e-highway - 1 freq
euch - 1 freq
eggie - 8 freq
es - 1 freq
esau - 11 freq
eiks - 10 freq
ecky - 9 freq
egs - 2 freq
ege - 4 freq
exe - 2 freq
eyways - 1 freq
'ese - 2 freq
eh'se - 1 freq
eke - 3 freq
ech - 5 freq
ek - 3 freq
eiggs - 8 freq
eigg - 3 freq
eaux - 2 freq
eeeeek - 1 freq
ecce - 1 freq
e's - 11 freq
'ehz - 1 freq
each-wey - 1 freq
eyewyse - 1 freq
eaze - 1 freq
eheuch - 1 freq
eise - 2 freq
eisie - 2 freq
es - 1 freq
essay - 1 freq
esa - 2 freq
eec - 2 freq
ecg - 1 freq
eco - 2 freq
eschew - 1 freq
ecc - 1 freq
easy - 1 freq
'e's - 14 freq
'es - 5 freq
ego - 1 freq
es - 7 freq
ehz - 1 freq
eggsy - 4 freq
eh's - 6 freq
eywis - 1 freq
eiweys - 1 freq
eig - 1 freq
essay' - 1 freq
ej - 1 freq
eso - 1 freq
eko - 1 freq
eq - 1 freq
eease - 1 freq
ez - 5 freq
ezk - 1 freq
ezi - 1 freq
exwoo - 1 freq
ecz - 1 freq
eeq - 1 freq
ecy - 1 freq
ejo - 1 freq
ejx - 1 freq
eesce - 1 freq
eqio - 1 freq
ewok - 1 freq
‘ese - 1 freq
eyeways - 1 freq
eyewis - 5 freq
eksq - 1 freq
exy - 1 freq
eijk - 2 freq
eggo - 1 freq
eze - 1 freq
exo - 1 freq
ehic - 1 freq
eech - 1 freq
egjeu - 1 freq
esjayhh - 1 freq
ejxa - 1 freq
eyxg - 1 freq
ewcjhh - 1 freq
eicc - 1 freq
eesy - 2 freq
e’s - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - ES
ease - 91 freq
aes - 4 freq
easy - 436 freq
ess - 258 freq
eause - 2 freq
'easy - 2 freq
es - 798 freq
eis - 478 freq
eece - 8 freq
ees - 87 freq
ee's - 17 freq
eez - 30 freq
eese - 106 freq
eess - 1 freq
eeeze - 1 freq
eeezy - 1 freq
ese - 2 freq
eiss - 31 freq
ecih - 1 freq
eiss' - 1 freq
easie - 4 freq
eesee - 3 freq
esso - 5 freq
eisy - 1 freq
eos - 59 freq
ei's - 2 freq
ehs - 17 freq
aese - 8 freq
-es - 1 freq
essay - 25 freq
'essay - 1 freq
es - 1 freq
aesy - 57 freq
esau - 11 freq
'ese - 2 freq
eh'se - 1 freq
e's - 11 freq
'ehz - 1 freq
eaze - 1 freq
eise - 2 freq
eisie - 2 freq
es - 1 freq
essay - 1 freq
esa - 2 freq
aesie - 2 freq
easy - 1 freq
'e's - 14 freq
'es - 5 freq
es - 7 freq
ehz - 1 freq
eh's - 6 freq
essay' - 1 freq
eso - 1 freq
eease - 1 freq
ez - 5 freq
ezi - 1 freq
ecy - 1 freq
eesce - 1 freq
‘ese - 1 freq
eze - 1 freq
eesy - 2 freq
e’s - 1 freq
ESSAY
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.226041 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 - 0.495884 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 - 0.032203 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 - 0.038932 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 - 0.000798 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.