A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Levenshtein Distance

Enter a word to find nearest neighbouring words, for example ahint

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - fine-grain concord -

Similar words to jacques in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
jacques (0) - 2 freq
jacquel (1) - 3 freq
racquet (2) - 2 freq
barques (2) - 1 freq
jacquie (2) - 1 freq
lacquer (2) - 2 freq
jacqui (2) - 1 freq
basques (2) - 1 freq
faces (3) - 224 freq
docquet (3) - 2 freq
kaces (3) - 1 freq
aces (3) - 5 freq
aches (3) - 10 freq
langues (3) - 1 freq
races (3) - 17 freq
acres (3) - 24 freq
cactus (3) - 2 freq
laces (3) - 11 freq
tackles (3) - 3 freq
jackets (3) - 3 freq
cheques (3) - 13 freq
vailues (3) - 2 freq
acquent (3) - 15 freq
plaques (3) - 4 freq
jackie's (3) - 2 freq
jacques (0) - 2 freq
jacquel (2) - 3 freq
jacquie (3) - 1 freq
jacqui (3) - 1 freq
barques (4) - 1 freq
jacks (4) - 10 freq
basques (4) - 1 freq
jacobs (4) - 1 freq
racquet (4) - 2 freq
lacquer (4) - 2 freq
jackie (5) - 38 freq
jandies (5) - 1 freq
mackies (5) - 4 freq
jameses (5) - 1 freq
jairus (5) - 3 freq
jaups (5) - 3 freq
jaysus (5) - 2 freq
accies (5) - 2 freq
macus (5) - 1 freq
jaimes (5) - 4 freq
acaus (5) - 2 freq
jacket (5) - 29 freq
jalouzes (5) - 3 freq
jasus (5) - 1 freq
jalous (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - J220
'jesus - 10 freq
jakies - 2 freq
jesus - 835 freq
jessies - 3 freq
jokes - 50 freq
jaggies - 4 freq
jessie's - 13 freq
jack-easy - 2 freq
joyce's - 18 freq
jakes - 3 freq
joke's - 4 freq
juices - 8 freq
joackey's - 1 freq
joackeys - 1 freq
jake's - 2 freq
jackie's - 2 freq
jakey's - 1 freq
jeggies - 1 freq
jesus' - 25 freq
jasus - 1 freq
jesus's - 7 freq
josech - 3 freq
jigsaws - 4 freq
jesse's - 2 freq
jassies - 1 freq
jessica - 1 freq
jigsas - 2 freq
jacques - 2 freq
jeck-aisy - 1 freq
jocky's - 1 freq
jek-aisie - 1 freq
ju-jus - 1 freq
jacuzzi - 1 freq
jacksies - 2 freq
joggies - 1 freq
€œjesus - 4 freq
€˜jesus - 1 freq
jeesus - 2 freq
josiej - 1 freq
jockys - 1 freq
jaysis - 1 freq
jaysus - 2 freq
jessieÂ’s - 1 freq
jgiquoc - 1 freq
joeyessex - 2 freq
jockyÂ’s - 1 freq
jeesis - 2 freq
jwzeq - 1 freq
jackieash - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - JKKS
jacques - 2 freq
JACQUES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.476018 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 - 1.096807 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 - 0.028014 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 - 0.097484 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 - 0.000782 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.