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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to fricasees in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
fricasees (0) - 1 freq
casees (3) - 3 freq
suitcasees (3) - 1 freq
fricatives (3) - 3 freq
frasers (3) - 2 freq
fricatives' (4) - 1 freq
trickster (4) - 2 freq
africas (4) - 1 freq
frichts (4) - 2 freq
brigades (4) - 2 freq
privates (4) - 1 freq
frichten (4) - 8 freq
brichens (4) - 1 freq
ricksons (4) - 1 freq
carcasses (4) - 4 freq
crickets (4) - 1 freq
primaries (4) - 4 freq
finishes (4) - 8 freq
grasses (4) - 8 freq
fraes (4) - 1 freq
frites (4) - 1 freq
thisees (4) - 1 freq
frames (4) - 18 freq
rises (4) - 42 freq
recesses (4) - 4 freq
fricasees (0) - 1 freq
fracas (5) - 2 freq
efricans (5) - 1 freq
forecasts (5) - 4 freq
crocuses (5) - 2 freq
africans (5) - 1 freq
africas (5) - 1 freq
focuses (5) - 2 freq
frasers (5) - 2 freq
foresees (5) - 1 freq
fricatives (5) - 3 freq
casees (5) - 3 freq
suitcasees (5) - 1 freq
grice's (6) - 1 freq
friens (6) - 50 freq
frillies (6) - 1 freq
arcades (6) - 2 freq
frisbee (6) - 4 freq
irises (6) - 1 freq
crises (6) - 1 freq
brickies (6) - 2 freq
cases (6) - 56 freq
farces (6) - 1 freq
processes (6) - 20 freq
rinses (6) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - F622
fergusson - 43 freq
fergie's - 4 freq
ferguson - 46 freq
fiercesome-like - 1 freq
forecaster - 1 freq
forsak - 1 freq
fergus - 8 freq
ferociously - 2 freq
ferocious - 4 freq
forces - 42 freq
faircest - 1 freq
forkies - 1 freq
fricasees - 1 freq
foresaken - 1 freq
foresicht - 9 freq
forsook - 6 freq
foresees - 1 freq
fracas - 2 freq
forsake - 1 freq
freezes - 4 freq
fair-sized - 2 freq
fergies - 1 freq
forces' - 1 freq
forges - 2 freq
forecasts - 4 freq
farces - 1 freq
farage's - 1 freq
forjeskit - 5 freq
forecast - 26 freq
fiercest - 2 freq
forsaken - 3 freq
fergusson's - 4 freq
forsakin - 1 freq
forsicht - 1 freq
forecastable - 2 freq
fresh-skint - 1 freq
fresh-cuttit - 1 freq
forgies - 1 freq
foirsicht - 1 freq
ferssis - 3 freq
ferguslie - 1 freq
farcical - 2 freq
faragescu - 1 freq
fergusonjanette - 1 freq
foresight - 1 freq
fergusmuirhead - 2 freq
forecastit - 1 freq
fergusonelaine - 1 freq
fergusson’s - 2 freq
forresacadlib - 1 freq
ferociousdubmidges - 1 freq
fergusewingmsp - 9 freq
MetaPhone code - FRKSS
fricasees - 1 freq
FRICASEES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.230969 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 - 0.393031 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 - 0.028702 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 - 0.037230 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 - 0.000918 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.