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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to faimlies in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
faimlies (0) - 47 freq
faimilies (1) - 42 freq
faimlie (1) - 140 freq
faimlie's (1) - 1 freq
dailies (2) - 1 freq
fairlie (2) - 19 freq
frillies (2) - 1 freq
faimly's (2) - 3 freq
families (2) - 30 freq
femlies (2) - 2 freq
fairies (2) - 38 freq
faimiles (2) - 2 freq
failzies (2) - 1 freq
flimsies (2) - 1 freq
failins (2) - 1 freq
mailies (2) - 1 freq
faimilie (2) - 21 freq
baillies (2) - 3 freq
bailies (2) - 2 freq
fammils (3) - 1 freq
faills (3) - 1 freq
failyie (3) - 1 freq
baillie (3) - 17 freq
failyeis (3) - 1 freq
mailins (3) - 1 freq
faimlies (0) - 47 freq
faimilies (1) - 42 freq
families (2) - 30 freq
faimiles (2) - 2 freq
femlies (2) - 2 freq
faimlie's (2) - 1 freq
faimlie (2) - 140 freq
mailies (3) - 1 freq
faimilie (3) - 21 freq
faimly's (3) - 3 freq
femlees (3) - 1 freq
familie (4) - 1 freq
foibles (4) - 2 freq
femlie (4) - 25 freq
fables (4) - 10 freq
moilies (4) - 1 freq
faimily's (4) - 8 freq
femlie's (4) - 1 freq
fallaes (4) - 1 freq
females (4) - 9 freq
maalies (4) - 6 freq
flies (4) - 32 freq
emilies (4) - 1 freq
ferlies (4) - 61 freq
files (4) - 108 freq
SoundEx code - F542
faimilies - 42 freq
faimly's - 3 freq
finlay's - 2 freq
funnels - 4 freq
finalise - 2 freq
funny-like - 2 freq
faimlies - 47 freq
families - 30 freq
faimily's - 8 freq
faimiles - 2 freq
fine-luikin - 1 freq
femlie's - 1 freq
finals - 7 freq
finalised - 2 freq
fine-lookin - 2 freq
finelookin - 1 freq
family's - 3 freq
femlies - 2 freq
females' - 1 freq
funny-lukkan - 1 freq
femmels - 1 freq
final-stage - 1 freq
fenella's - 2 freq
femmelies - 1 freq
fummles - 2 freq
faimlie's - 1 freq
females - 9 freq
finalists - 1 freq
fammils - 1 freq
fionnlaigh - 1 freq
finlayson - 1 freq
femlees - 1 freq
fine-lik - 1 freq
fmwales - 1 freq
fnlz - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FMLS
faimilies - 42 freq
faimly's - 3 freq
faimlies - 47 freq
families - 30 freq
faimily's - 8 freq
faimiles - 2 freq
femlie's - 1 freq
family's - 3 freq
femlies - 2 freq
females' - 1 freq
femmels - 1 freq
femmelies - 1 freq
fummles - 2 freq
faimlie's - 1 freq
females - 9 freq
fammils - 1 freq
femlees - 1 freq
fumbles - 2 freq
FAIMLIES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.173013 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 - 0.492547 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 - 0.027586 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 - 0.070266 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 - 0.000817 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.