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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to forbearance in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
forbearance (0) - 1 freq
forbeirance (1) - 1 freq
forderance (2) - 2 freq
foregane (4) - 2 freq
foregranted (4) - 1 freq
forbears (4) - 1 freq
clearance (4) - 16 freq
freelance (4) - 6 freq
owerance (4) - 35 freq
appearance (4) - 49 freq
remberance (4) - 1 freq
forbear (4) - 1 freq
fortrace (4) - 7 freq
beirance (4) - 1 freq
tolerance (4) - 7 freq
fragrance (4) - 5 freq
torrance (4) - 1 freq
confeirance (4) - 2 freq
eonfeirance (4) - 1 freq
forbearers (4) - 1 freq
exuberance (4) - 3 freq
soverance (4) - 3 freq
forseeable (5) - 1 freq
forran (5) - 1 freq
forbeir (5) - 3 freq
forbearance (0) - 1 freq
forbeirance (1) - 1 freq
forderance (3) - 2 freq
fragrance (5) - 5 freq
fortrace (6) - 7 freq
beirance (6) - 1 freq
forbearers (6) - 1 freq
exuberance (6) - 3 freq
forbear (6) - 1 freq
torrance (6) - 1 freq
remberance (6) - 1 freq
forbears (6) - 1 freq
freelance (6) - 6 freq
fraunce (7) - 29 freq
forebearers (7) - 1 freq
foregrund (7) - 1 freq
forebear (7) - 3 freq
florence (7) - 29 freq
forloarn (7) - 1 freq
fragrances (7) - 1 freq
france (7) - 85 freq
forderin (7) - 191 freq
forefront (7) - 5 freq
fraince (7) - 1 freq
forewarn (7) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - F616
forever - 75 freq
forivver - 9 freq
farivver - 9 freq
foriver - 30 freq
forebears - 23 freq
forbeirance - 1 freq
firever - 4 freq
fair-farrant - 1 freq
forbeir - 3 freq
fervour - 2 freq
forfairn - 2 freq
fripperies - 3 freq
free-birthit - 1 freq
forfar - 10 freq
forebeirs - 7 freq
fariver - 10 freq
firrever - 1 freq
furever - 8 freq
faur-forrit - 1 freq
firivver - 5 freq
firiver - 2 freq
farfir - 2 freq
ferryport - 1 freq
forfarshire - 1 freq
forefront - 5 freq
forevvir - 5 freq
forebeers - 5 freq
fire-brigade - 1 freq
foriverness - 2 freq
firivir - 14 freq
forebear - 3 freq
forivir - 2 freq
farivir - 5 freq
fairport - 1 freq
fuirboards - 1 freq
free-for-aa - 1 freq
€œfarivver - 1 freq
forivers - 1 freq
'fareiver - 1 freq
forebears' - 1 freq
farfarshire - 1 freq
forebearers - 1 freq
forbearers - 1 freq
forbears - 1 freq
freeform - 1 freq
foriver-and-a-day - 1 freq
forbeirs - 1 freq
forebeirers - 1 freq
freeborn - 1 freq
fower-pairt - 1 freq
fireproof - 1 freq
furiver - 1 freq
free-for-aw - 1 freq
forefaren - 1 freq
€˜forever - 1 freq
forbear - 1 freq
fireproofin - 1 freq
fairferfoonert - 1 freq
firriver - 1 freq
fireburn - 1 freq
firebird - 1 freq
forbearance - 1 freq
fairbairn - 7 freq
foreveryes - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FRBRNS
forbeirance - 1 freq
forbearance - 1 freq
FORBEARANCE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.464285 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 - 0.617969 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 - 0.028029 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 - 0.071863 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 - 0.000938 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.