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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to purchase in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
purchase (0) - 15 freq
purchases (1) - 1 freq
purchased (1) - 5 freq
purchasin (2) - 1 freq
purchayst (2) - 1 freq
punches (3) - 5 freq
phase (3) - 20 freq
lurches (3) - 1 freq
nutcase (3) - 2 freq
perches (3) - 2 freq
chase (3) - 48 freq
purchasing (3) - 2 freq
puhlease (3) - 1 freq
perchance (3) - 3 freq
punchan (3) - 1 freq
wurhae (3) - 1 freq
purch'd (3) - 1 freq
purdas (3) - 1 freq
muchas (3) - 1 freq
phrase (3) - 121 freq
quhase (3) - 1 freq
purse (3) - 37 freq
purpose (3) - 73 freq
carcase (3) - 1 freq
surcharge (3) - 1 freq
purchase (0) - 15 freq
purchased (2) - 5 freq
purchases (2) - 1 freq
perches (3) - 2 freq
purchayst (3) - 1 freq
purchasin (3) - 1 freq
punches (4) - 5 freq
lurches (4) - 1 freq
torches (5) - 14 freq
perched (5) - 19 freq
parched (5) - 9 freq
arches (5) - 17 freq
pinches (5) - 2 freq
airches (5) - 12 freq
marches (5) - 16 freq
praiches (5) - 1 freq
erches (5) - 1 freq
precise (5) - 14 freq
porch (5) - 22 freq
airchis (5) - 1 freq
piranhas (5) - 1 freq
psychos (5) - 3 freq
pouches (5) - 5 freq
pooches (5) - 44 freq
parcht (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - P622
preecious - 2 freq
precious - 140 freq
precious's - 1 freq
perswaasion - 1 freq
projecks - 16 freq
praicious - 4 freq
preses - 15 freq
process - 118 freq
pressies - 3 freq
prizes - 51 freq
prosecute - 5 freq
processions - 7 freq
procession - 33 freq
persistit - 5 freq
percussion - 2 freq
precision - 5 freq
processed - 8 freq
projectin - 4 freq
persisted - 5 freq
presses - 23 freq
purchase - 15 freq
parkas - 1 freq
precise' - 1 freq
project - 86 freq
persuasion - 4 freq
persecution - 10 freq
projeck - 49 freq
persists - 3 freq
precise - 14 freq
prezzies - 9 freq
praises - 17 freq
processor - 5 freq
pairishes - 3 freq
persecuted - 3 freq
persecutions - 2 freq
persecute - 2 freq
persist - 9 freq
projected - 2 freq
phrases - 68 freq
prossess - 1 freq
prossesicn - 1 freq
purchayst - 1 freq
parishes - 1 freq
prosecutor - 2 freq
processes - 20 freq
processin - 4 freq
persistence - 3 freq
prices - 33 freq
'projectit' - 2 freq
projectit - 4 freq
projeckit - 3 freq
projections - 3 freq
precisely - 9 freq
persuasions - 2 freq
'project - 1 freq
porsisted - 1 freq
projectile - 1 freq
persistet - 2 freq
prosecution - 3 freq
projector - 2 freq
preaches - 2 freq
pharisees - 65 freq
persecutit - 2 freq
praiches - 1 freq
pharisee's - 2 freq
persecutin - 1 freq
purchases - 1 freq
presaging - 1 freq
prosaic - 1 freq
puirs-hoose - 1 freq
persistance - 1 freq
purchased - 5 freq
precocious - 1 freq
processors - 1 freq
projects - 48 freq
porkies - 2 freq
projekkit - 1 freq
projek - 2 freq
prosecco - 4 freq
pierces - 2 freq
perishes - 1 freq
puirshoose - 1 freq
persistent - 6 freq
pre-existin - 1 freq
percy's - 1 freq
purses - 1 freq
projects' - 1 freq
preceisioun - 1 freq
persuasiouns - 1 freq
preises - 1 freq
persistently - 1 freq
preceese - 5 freq
projeks - 1 freq
pressis - 2 freq
parkes - 2 freq
pryssis - 1 freq
proces - 1 freq
presagin - 2 freq
pre-exeestin - 1 freq
purchasing - 2 freq
proxies - 1 freq
preceesely - 1 freq
project' - 2 freq
persuasively - 1 freq
projection - 1 freq
projectan - 1 freq
projeck's - 3 freq
precision' - 1 freq
pre-cooked - 1 freq
parkash - 1 freq
progess - 1 freq
perches - 2 freq
projeckin - 1 freq
€œprecisely - 1 freq
prosecutions - 1 freq
peerages - 1 freq
prosectutit - 1 freq
purchasin - 1 freq
prcoceeds - 1 freq
phrasies - 1 freq
pricise - 1 freq
projecthawick - 6 freq
processing - 1 freq
projectsÂ… - 1 freq
précis - 1 freq
precis - 1 freq
preecise - 1 freq
pvyrcezj - 1 freq
poorscousertom - 3 freq
prosecuter - 1 freq
projectsoutar - 3 freq
MetaPhone code - PRXS
purchase - 15 freq
pairishes - 3 freq
parishes - 1 freq
preaches - 2 freq
praiches - 1 freq
perishes - 1 freq
puirshoose - 1 freq
perches - 2 freq
PURCHASE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.187409 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 - 0.350002 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 - 0.027486 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 - 0.038135 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 - 0.000809 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.