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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to plaques in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
plaques (0) - 4 freq
plaque (1) - 19 freq
plagues (1) - 4 freq
plaqued' (2) - 1 freq
plaes (2) - 1 freq
cliques (2) - 2 freq
placies (2) - 4 freq
plates (2) - 58 freq
plantes (2) - 1 freq
plashes (2) - 1 freq
plagued (2) - 5 freq
planes (2) - 19 freq
plaeces (2) - 3 freq
plaises (2) - 3 freq
places (2) - 246 freq
plague (2) - 25 freq
play's (3) - 2 freq
place (3) - 1701 freq
planted (3) - 31 freq
playins (3) - 1 freq
pales (3) - 2 freq
klaes (3) - 1 freq
plashed (3) - 1 freq
peaches (3) - 2 freq
mosques (3) - 1 freq
plaques (0) - 4 freq
plaque (2) - 19 freq
plagues (2) - 4 freq
planes (3) - 19 freq
plaeces (3) - 3 freq
plates (3) - 58 freq
places (3) - 246 freq
plaises (3) - 3 freq
plaes (3) - 1 freq
cliques (3) - 2 freq
placies (3) - 4 freq
plukes (4) - 1 freq
plaise (4) - 10 freq
plaikies (4) - 1 freq
plaens (4) - 1 freq
plees (4) - 6 freq
plaags (4) - 1 freq
pilates (4) - 1 freq
placeys (4) - 3 freq
plaiks (4) - 1 freq
plaess (4) - 18 freq
plays (4) - 129 freq
plebes (4) - 1 freq
palaces (4) - 9 freq
plies (4) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - P422
plashes - 1 freq
poloko's - 3 freq
places - 246 freq
pliskies - 3 freq
pleases - 9 freq
places-aw - 1 freq
place's - 3 freq
'pleughs - 1 freq
plisses - 4 freq
placeys - 3 freq
polkas - 2 freq
palaces - 9 freq
pillowcase - 1 freq
plaises - 3 freq
plaice's - 1 freq
plexus - 3 freq
plushest - 1 freq
policies - 46 freq
placesaal - 1 freq
plagues - 4 freq
plusses - 1 freq
places-aal - 1 freq
plaques - 4 freq
pleces - 1 freq
placesall - 1 freq
ploukish - 1 freq
plaesses - 15 freq
pluchie's - 1 freq
plaesis - 1 freq
pleughies - 1 freq
pulses - 3 freq
placies - 4 freq
plesis - 2 freq
palliasses - 1 freq
paliassis - 1 freq
pleuchis - 1 freq
€˜plages - 1 freq
plough-stanes - 1 freq
plukes - 1 freq
plaeces - 3 freq
plaikies - 1 freq
policescotland - 7 freq
paulacoyscot - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - PLKS
poloko's - 3 freq
polkas - 2 freq
pillowcase - 1 freq
plooks - 11 freq
plaaaaaacceee - 1 freq
poliacs - 1 freq
plagues - 4 freq
plouks - 9 freq
plaques - 4 freq
plaags - 1 freq
plags - 4 freq
polks - 1 freq
pollocks - 1 freq
placks - 3 freq
plexie - 1 freq
plucks - 1 freq
plukes - 1 freq
plugs - 5 freq
plaiks - 1 freq
plaikies - 1 freq
pleuks - 1 freq
PLAQUES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.216945 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 - 0.417403 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 - 0.040422 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 - 0.043795 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 - 0.000911 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.