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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to glesses in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
glesses (0) - 96 freq
gresses (1) - 7 freq
guesses (1) - 6 freq
glasses (1) - 23 freq
glessis (1) - 5 freq
glosses (1) - 2 freq
clesses (1) - 54 freq
pleases (2) - 9 freq
lesser (2) - 29 freq
gless (2) - 392 freq
glessless (2) - 1 freq
plusses (2) - 1 freq
glessfu (2) - 2 freq
klosses (2) - 1 freq
lenses (2) - 10 freq
glebes (2) - 1 freq
plessed (2) - 1 freq
glessfi (2) - 1 freq
glessfy (2) - 1 freq
gessed (2) - 1 freq
classes (2) - 46 freq
sleshes (2) - 1 freq
losses (2) - 15 freq
fesses (2) - 1 freq
lasses (2) - 69 freq
glesses (0) - 96 freq
glessis (1) - 5 freq
glasses (1) - 23 freq
glosses (1) - 2 freq
glaisses (2) - 21 freq
clesses (2) - 54 freq
gresses (2) - 7 freq
guesses (2) - 6 freq
glessy (3) - 1 freq
glessie (3) - 3 freq
vlisses (3) - 2 freq
plisses (3) - 4 freq
grasses (3) - 8 freq
closses (3) - 1 freq
glossed (3) - 2 freq
plaesses (3) - 15 freq
glaises (3) - 2 freq
lasses (3) - 69 freq
gressis (3) - 1 freq
glessin (3) - 1 freq
blisses (3) - 3 freq
ulysses (3) - 1 freq
eyeglesses (3) - 1 freq
glessfu (3) - 2 freq
glessfy (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - G422
glaswegian - 32 freq
glesca's - 5 freq
glaswegian's - 1 freq
gollachs - 3 freq
glesses - 96 freq
glasgow's - 5 freq
gleghke - 1 freq
glasses - 23 freq
gleswegian - 13 freq
golachs - 2 freq
galaxy's - 1 freq
glaises - 2 freq
glaisses - 21 freq
glaswegians - 2 freq
gulshicks - 2 freq
geological - 4 freq
glesga's - 2 freq
galluses - 10 freq
gallusesp - 1 freq
gless-hoose - 1 freq
glessis - 5 freq
gloucester - 2 freq
glacio-isostacy - 1 freq
gleswegians - 6 freq
'glaswegian' - 5 freq
'gleswegian' - 1 freq
gleggest - 2 freq
glass-washin - 1 freq
glasgowwestend - 1 freq
glosses - 2 freq
gleeshoch - 1 freq
gulsoch - 2 freq
galaxies - 8 freq
geologic - 3 freq
gallusses - 1 freq
€˜glaswegian - 1 freq
geologist - 1 freq
gallusus - 1 freq
glegest - 1 freq
galshach - 1 freq
galshiks - 2 freq
gullshikks - 1 freq
glasgowcityfc - 2 freq
glasgowgreens - 1 freq
glasgowsvoice - 2 freq
glasgowcathcart - 6 freq
glasgows - 1 freq
gleswegaingran - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KLSS
clesses - 54 freq
glesses - 96 freq
closes - 27 freq
classes - 46 freq
glasses - 23 freq
glaises - 2 freq
glaisses - 21 freq
colossus - 4 freq
class's - 2 freq
galluses - 10 freq
glessis - 5 freq
klaus's - 8 freq
closses - 1 freq
claases - 7 freq
clauses - 4 freq
glosses - 2 freq
kloss's - 2 freq
classes' - 1 freq
gallusses - 1 freq
gallusus - 1 freq
glaisÂ’s - 1 freq
qlsws - 1 freq
kelsohs - 1 freq
klosses - 1 freq
GLESSES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.189655 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 - 0.340106 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 - 0.027656 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 - 0.056579 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 - 0.000765 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.