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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to ruses in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
ruses (0) - 1 freq
roses (1) - 102 freq
rues (1) - 2 freq
uses (1) - 47 freq
russ (1) - 2 freq
rusks (1) - 1 freq
runes (1) - 6 freq
muses (1) - 7 freq
rusts (1) - 1 freq
ruse (1) - 1 freq
buses (1) - 45 freq
rushes (1) - 20 freq
rises (1) - 42 freq
ruises (1) - 1 freq
fuses (1) - 1 freq
puses (1) - 1 freq
rules (1) - 180 freq
rupes (1) - 1 freq
suss (2) - 7 freq
muse (2) - 35 freq
rugas (2) - 1 freq
grues (2) - 1 freq
munes (2) - 4 freq
dunes (2) - 6 freq
bruces (2) - 13 freq
ruses (0) - 1 freq
rises (1) - 42 freq
ruises (1) - 1 freq
russ (1) - 2 freq
roses (1) - 102 freq
ryss (2) - 3 freq
irises (2) - 1 freq
rosies (2) - 2 freq
raises (2) - 24 freq
ross (2) - 102 freq
arises (2) - 5 freq
arses (2) - 7 freq
russe (2) - 1 freq
reeses (2) - 1 freq
rupes (2) - 1 freq
roeses (2) - 1 freq
riss (2) - 2 freq
erses (2) - 23 freq
runes (2) - 6 freq
rues (2) - 2 freq
fuses (2) - 1 freq
puses (2) - 1 freq
rusts (2) - 1 freq
uses (2) - 47 freq
ruse (2) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - R220
riches - 23 freq
raxes - 29 freq
roses - 102 freq
rises - 42 freq
reaches - 24 freq
rochs - 1 freq
rushes - 20 freq
raises - 24 freq
rashes - 30 freq
raucous - 8 freq
rakes - 6 freq
ruckus - 2 freq
rejoice - 10 freq
rages - 9 freq
rejig - 1 freq
ruses - 1 freq
rizzio's - 17 freq
rejyyce - 1 freq
reekie's - 5 freq
rogues - 15 freq
rucksack - 11 freq
rescues - 1 freq
rashees - 3 freq
rucksacks - 3 freq
rosie's - 5 freq
races - 17 freq
rogueys - 1 freq
roughage - 1 freq
rice's - 2 freq
recess - 3 freq
rejeck - 2 freq
reeses - 1 freq
rissies - 1 freq
rosies - 2 freq
rehashes - 1 freq
rackwick - 1 freq
rugas - 1 freq
racous - 1 freq
rockies - 1 freq
rogues' - 1 freq
riggies - 1 freq
rose's - 2 freq
rejyce - 1 freq
rosehauch - 1 freq
recaws - 2 freq
rashis - 1 freq
rogie's - 1 freq
ruises - 1 freq
roeses - 1 freq
reassess - 1 freq
rejecks - 1 freq
“rosies - 1 freq
rojas - 1 freq
rogic - 3 freq
rossies - 1 freq
raucouse - 1 freq
rogueish - 1 freq
rkos - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - RSS
roses - 102 freq
rises - 42 freq
raises - 24 freq
ruses - 1 freq
ross's - 3 freq
rizzio's - 17 freq
rosie's - 5 freq
races - 17 freq
rice's - 2 freq
recess - 3 freq
reeses - 1 freq
rissies - 1 freq
rosies - 2 freq
rose's - 2 freq
ruises - 1 freq
roeses - 1 freq
reassess - 1 freq
“rosies - 1 freq
rossies - 1 freq
RUSES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.246961 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 - 0.485149 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 - 0.029654 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 - 0.039129 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 - 0.001026 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.