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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to liths in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
liths (0) - 2 freq
aiths (1) - 3 freq
lit's (1) - 13 freq
lith (1) - 1 freq
lithe (1) - 5 freq
lits (1) - 15 freq
lithy (1) - 1 freq
lieds (2) - 1 freq
laithes (2) - 1 freq
nits (2) - 21 freq
ith (2) - 2 freq
litre (2) - 11 freq
slits (2) - 4 freq
titus (2) - 1 freq
lates (2) - 2 freq
lethe (2) - 2 freq
elites (2) - 5 freq
laits (2) - 2 freq
lehs (2) - 5 freq
yits (2) - 1 freq
luts (2) - 3 freq
git's (2) - 3 freq
lies (2) - 143 freq
litz (2) - 2 freq
lut's (2) - 26 freq
liths (0) - 2 freq
laithes (2) - 1 freq
lathes (2) - 1 freq
lithy (2) - 1 freq
lits (2) - 15 freq
aiths (2) - 3 freq
lit's (2) - 13 freq
lith (2) - 1 freq
lithe (2) - 5 freq
peths (3) - 3 freq
meths (3) - 1 freq
lats (3) - 26 freq
liath (3) - 1 freq
buiths (3) - 2 freq
lither (3) - 1 freq
let's (3) - 199 freq
leith (3) - 200 freq
moths (3) - 7 freq
litmus (3) - 1 freq
lochs (3) - 32 freq
loghs (3) - 1 freq
oaths (3) - 3 freq
litres (3) - 3 freq
ruths (3) - 2 freq
lthv (3) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - L320
leet's - 1 freq
laddies - 198 freq
ladies' - 4 freq
lodge - 27 freq
leids - 466 freq
lat's - 26 freq
let's - 199 freq
loads - 87 freq
ledge - 15 freq
lit's - 13 freq
latch - 11 freq
lettuce - 19 freq
ladies - 54 freq
'ladies - 8 freq
leads - 45 freq
lets - 74 freq
lads - 508 freq
lads' - 4 freq
'let's - 31 freq
llladies - 1 freq
leets - 18 freq
lao-tzu - 1 freq
lotus - 8 freq
laud's - 1 freq
lids - 8 freq
lad's - 37 freq
lauds - 1 freq
lauddies - 3 freq
ludge - 22 freq
loadsae - 2 freq
laddie's - 25 freq
latchy - 4 freq
'leid''s - 1 freq
leid's - 13 freq
laddish - 1 freq
loud's - 1 freq
lots - 80 freq
leddie's - 1 freq
lot's - 4 freq
laad's - 14 freq
loddies - 3 freq
lods - 1 freq
lade's - 1 freq
leddies - 12 freq
loatsae - 1 freq
leith's - 2 freq
lits - 15 freq
lates - 2 freq
laithes - 1 freq
laudies - 1 freq
lut's - 26 freq
laads - 7 freq
luts - 3 freq
low-tax - 1 freq
loadz - 1 freq
'ladies' - 2 freq
loadsa - 12 freq
lotsa - 1 freq
leeds - 9 freq
lats - 26 freq
laddies's - 1 freq
ledes - 12 freq
leits - 1 freq
lady's - 2 freq
latchie - 7 freq
leds - 1 freq
lidice - 1 freq
liths - 2 freq
leddy's - 2 freq
lawdie's - 2 freq
lithca - 1 freq
lithqw' - 1 freq
ludwig - 1 freq
loats - 2 freq
lithgow - 1 freq
lathes - 1 freq
€œleids - 1 freq
lithgae - 14 freq
luyts - 1 freq
lithgie - 3 freq
€œladies - 1 freq
laits - 2 freq
€œlads - 1 freq
litz - 2 freq
lieds - 1 freq
letÂ’s - 16 freq
ldq - 1 freq
ldgjzksj - 1 freq
ladÂ’s - 1 freq
latÂ’s - 2 freq
ldj - 1 freq
lwddq - 1 freq
leitch - 11 freq
leadsie - 1 freq
luatg - 1 freq
ldgqo - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - L0S
leith's - 2 freq
laithes - 1 freq
liths - 2 freq
lathes - 1 freq
LITHS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.392870 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 - 0.694785 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 - 0.075719 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 - 0.094950 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 - 0.001186 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.