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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to reiver in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
reiver (0) - 22 freq
reider (1) - 5 freq
reever (1) - 2 freq
river (1) - 264 freq
reive (1) - 5 freq
reived (1) - 5 freq
reivers (1) - 17 freq
neiver (1) - 1 freq
rekiver (1) - 1 freq
reives (1) - 2 freq
dreiver (1) - 1 freq
screiver (2) - 8 freq
driver (2) - 89 freq
neiper (2) - 6 freq
recover (2) - 7 freq
leived (2) - 11 freq
rover (2) - 12 freq
leive (2) - 25 freq
lever (2) - 2 freq
deived (2) - 1 freq
raver (2) - 4 freq
rider (2) - 10 freq
raiser (2) - 2 freq
preived (2) - 1 freq
rimer (2) - 1 freq
reiver (0) - 22 freq
river (1) - 264 freq
reever (1) - 2 freq
revere (2) - 1 freq
ryver (2) - 1 freq
raver (2) - 4 freq
riever (2) - 2 freq
dreiver (2) - 1 freq
rover (2) - 12 freq
reives (2) - 2 freq
reived (2) - 5 freq
reive (2) - 5 freq
reider (2) - 5 freq
reivers (2) - 17 freq
neiver (2) - 1 freq
rekiver (2) - 1 freq
revoir (3) - 5 freq
reir (3) - 1 freq
rive (3) - 18 freq
reeve (3) - 1 freq
reer (3) - 1 freq
siver (3) - 2 freq
hever (3) - 2 freq
reader (3) - 89 freq
riper (3) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - R160
river - 264 freq
reappear - 6 freq
rubber - 54 freq
riper - 4 freq
reverie - 2 freq
referee - 15 freq
'rubber - 1 freq
repair - 15 freq
rapier - 2 freq
rover - 12 freq
reiver - 22 freq
refer - 37 freq
revoir - 5 freq
raver - 4 freq
rapper - 4 freq
raverie - 1 freq
ripper - 10 freq
reaper - 16 freq
riever - 2 freq
robbery - 8 freq
reviewer - 2 freq
rubbery - 7 freq
rïver - 5 freq
robber - 3 freq
ryver - 1 freq
reveiry - 1 freq
reapir - 1 freq
reever - 2 freq
re-fere - 1 freq
rubbir - 1 freq
rpr - 2 freq
revere - 1 freq
re-appear - 1 freq
riviera - 1 freq
robfray - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - RFR
river - 264 freq
reverie - 2 freq
referee - 15 freq
rover - 12 freq
reiver - 22 freq
refer - 37 freq
revoir - 5 freq
raver - 4 freq
raverie - 1 freq
riever - 2 freq
rougher - 1 freq
rïver - 5 freq
ryver - 1 freq
reveiry - 1 freq
reever - 2 freq
re-fere - 1 freq
revere - 1 freq
riviera - 1 freq
REIVER
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.222086 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 - 0.335325 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 - 0.027949 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 - 0.038279 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 - 0.000847 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.