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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to relays in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
relays (0) - 2 freq
replays (1) - 1 freq
relay (1) - 3 freq
delays (1) - 1 freq
relayin (2) - 1 freq
delay (2) - 17 freq
recaws (2) - 2 freq
relies (2) - 1 freq
reads (2) - 55 freq
walays (2) - 1 freq
bellys (2) - 2 freq
redars (2) - 1 freq
aeways (2) - 3 freq
relait (2) - 1 freq
flays (2) - 1 freq
rears (2) - 2 freq
relates (2) - 4 freq
rays (2) - 29 freq
relaxes (2) - 2 freq
reams (2) - 5 freq
allays (2) - 1 freq
'plays (2) - 1 freq
relax (2) - 41 freq
tellys (2) - 2 freq
velars (2) - 1 freq
relays (0) - 2 freq
relies (2) - 1 freq
replays (2) - 1 freq
delays (2) - 1 freq
relay (2) - 3 freq
lays (3) - 30 freq
roles (3) - 12 freq
clays (3) - 2 freq
relate (3) - 15 freq
royals (3) - 9 freq
plays (3) - 123 freq
repas (3) - 1 freq
rely (3) - 16 freq
reealais (3) - 1 freq
reels (3) - 20 freq
rls (3) - 7 freq
roals (3) - 1 freq
reuls (3) - 2 freq
relax (3) - 41 freq
relayed (3) - 1 freq
release (3) - 19 freq
reaps (3) - 11 freq
relics (3) - 6 freq
relates (3) - 4 freq
rays (3) - 29 freq
SoundEx code - R420
rolls - 94 freq
rules - 179 freq
realize - 6 freq
railways - 7 freq
relic - 11 freq
realise - 107 freq
roles - 12 freq
release - 19 freq
rails - 15 freq
railwyes - 1 freq
reealise - 1 freq
realeese - 1 freq
relax - 41 freq
reel's - 2 freq
reels - 20 freq
rawls - 1 freq
relics - 6 freq
really's - 2 freq
rail's - 1 freq
rollies - 1 freq
relish - 7 freq
royals - 9 freq
'rules' - 2 freq
rolex - 2 freq
rilke - 2 freq
relays - 2 freq
rowley's - 8 freq
rills - 1 freq
rowls - 5 freq
ruills - 2 freq
roll's - 1 freq
raleigh - 2 freq
rouls - 2 freq
rueless - 1 freq
rls - 7 freq
royales - 1 freq
raelly-wes - 1 freq
raelise - 4 freq
rls's - 1 freq
reuls - 2 freq
relies - 1 freq
roweloks - 1 freq
rallies - 7 freq
rollicks - 1 freq
€œrelax - 2 freq
railise - 1 freq
railweys - 1 freq
reealais - 1 freq
roolz - 1 freq
rlq - 1 freq
roals - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - RLS
rolls - 94 freq
rules - 179 freq
realize - 6 freq
realise - 107 freq
roles - 12 freq
release - 19 freq
rails - 15 freq
reealise - 1 freq
realeese - 1 freq
reel's - 2 freq
reels - 20 freq
rawls - 1 freq
really's - 2 freq
rail's - 1 freq
rollies - 1 freq
'rules' - 2 freq
relays - 2 freq
rowley's - 8 freq
rills - 1 freq
rowls - 5 freq
wyreless - 4 freq
ruills - 2 freq
roll's - 1 freq
rouls - 2 freq
rueless - 1 freq
rls - 7 freq
raelise - 4 freq
reuls - 2 freq
relies - 1 freq
rallies - 7 freq
railise - 1 freq
reealais - 1 freq
roolz - 1 freq
roals - 1 freq
RELAYS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.206620 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 - 0.384675 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 - 0.028218 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 - 0.036957 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 - 0.000860 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.