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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to fishes in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
fishes (0) - 17 freq
fishers (1) - 13 freq
fishen (1) - 1 freq
fashes (1) - 5 freq
fisher (1) - 41 freq
dishes (1) - 75 freq
fished (1) - 20 freq
wishes (1) - 36 freq
fishies (1) - 4 freq
feshes (1) - 1 freq
fisses (1) - 1 freq
pishes (1) - 2 freq
wushes (2) - 1 freq
gushes (2) - 5 freq
tighes (2) - 1 freq
riches (2) - 23 freq
rushes (2) - 19 freq
fiss (2) - 5 freq
fires (2) - 48 freq
fush's (2) - 1 freq
fights (2) - 3 freq
uisses (2) - 2 freq
finches (2) - 1 freq
feshed (2) - 1 freq
fisten (2) - 1 freq
fishes (0) - 17 freq
fishies (1) - 4 freq
fashes (1) - 5 freq
feshes (1) - 1 freq
fisses (2) - 1 freq
fisher (2) - 41 freq
fishers (2) - 13 freq
fishen (2) - 1 freq
pishes (2) - 2 freq
dishes (2) - 75 freq
fished (2) - 20 freq
wishes (2) - 36 freq
fashous (3) - 1 freq
fishie (3) - 2 freq
shes (3) - 9 freq
dyshes (3) - 1 freq
dashes (3) - 1 freq
lashes (3) - 7 freq
fishin (3) - 90 freq
fleshes (3) - 1 freq
washes (3) - 10 freq
bushes (3) - 41 freq
feshers (3) - 1 freq
flushes (3) - 7 freq
fetishes (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - F220
faces - 224 freq
fuchsia - 1 freq
fishes - 17 freq
fashious - 20 freq
fixes - 3 freq
'focus - 1 freq
focus - 106 freq
fawkes - 7 freq
foggies' - 1 freq
fucksake - 1 freq
foxes - 9 freq
fogeys - 1 freq
fowkies - 21 freq
fowkie's - 5 freq
fissoag's - 1 freq
fush's - 1 freq
fizzog - 27 freq
fcuk - 2 freq
faxes - 1 freq
fakes - 2 freq
fizzogs - 6 freq
fechs - 1 freq
fuscus - 2 freq
fishies - 4 freq
face's - 1 freq
fissog - 1 freq
feechies - 1 freq
faissis - 1 freq
fæsis - 1 freq
fykes - 2 freq
fashes - 5 freq
foxes' - 1 freq
feshes - 1 freq
facies - 1 freq
fishies' - 1 freq
fasces - 1 freq
fowkweys - 1 freq
fashous - 1 freq
feekies - 2 freq
foggies - 2 freq
fesses - 1 freq
fizog - 6 freq
fogies - 1 freq
fisses - 1 freq
faachs - 1 freq
fashiuss - 1 freq
fuses - 1 freq
fugazi - 1 freq
fzyji - 1 freq
fisog - 1 freq
fgwzkgjk - 1 freq
fwsuji - 1 freq
fuksek - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FXS
fishes - 17 freq
fetches - 4 freq
fashious - 20 freq
fush's - 1 freq
fechs - 1 freq
fishies - 4 freq
feechies - 1 freq
fashes - 5 freq
feshes - 1 freq
fishies' - 1 freq
fashous - 1 freq
faachs - 1 freq
fashiuss - 1 freq
FISHES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.193124 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 - 0.372475 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 - 0.027901 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 - 0.036666 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 - 0.000802 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.