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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to socrates in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
socrates (0) - 3 freq
crates (2) - 6 freq
sclates (2) - 14 freq
scrapes (2) - 10 freq
sorraes (2) - 3 freq
pirates (3) - 7 freq
crater (3) - 13 freq
sorries (3) - 2 freq
scatts (3) - 1 freq
socried (3) - 1 freq
scraps (3) - 22 freq
soarts (3) - 12 freq
chates (3) - 1 freq
crathes (3) - 1 freq
scraep (3) - 1 freq
cochranes (3) - 1 freq
societies (3) - 14 freq
someanes (3) - 1 freq
soorts (3) - 2 freq
scrans (3) - 3 freq
associates (3) - 4 freq
craters (3) - 24 freq
scraper (3) - 2 freq
sorrae (3) - 2 freq
cranes (3) - 7 freq
socrates (0) - 3 freq
sacrets (3) - 1 freq
scrapes (3) - 10 freq
secrets (3) - 39 freq
sclates (3) - 14 freq
crates (3) - 6 freq
scrote (4) - 1 freq
scoats (4) - 1 freq
scares (4) - 5 freq
scribes (4) - 7 freq
saicrets (4) - 9 freq
scarts (4) - 9 freq
sorts (4) - 70 freq
scraeps (4) - 1 freq
curates (4) - 3 freq
secreted (4) - 1 freq
sclytes (4) - 1 freq
sockets (4) - 8 freq
scrat (4) - 31 freq
separates (4) - 4 freq
creates (4) - 8 freq
sprites (4) - 2 freq
scries (4) - 1 freq
scratty (4) - 4 freq
screes (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - S263
secrets - 39 freq
secret - 196 freq
saicrets - 9 freq
saicret - 37 freq
sacredness - 1 freq
security - 54 freq
sigurd - 40 freq
siccart - 1 freq
sacred - 24 freq
secretaries - 2 freq
sugart - 1 freq
secretively - 1 freq
secretary's - 2 freq
secretly - 14 freq
saucrit - 6 freq
sigurd's - 7 freq
seagirt - 1 freq
sukkert - 1 freq
secret's - 1 freq
swaggered - 4 freq
so-cried - 1 freq
secretary - 17 freq
secretar - 29 freq
security' - 1 freq
socried - 1 freq
sacret - 1 freq
sacrets - 1 freq
secured - 4 freq
saicred - 2 freq
sae-cried - 3 freq
siccaritie - 1 freq
sigurdur - 1 freq
sigurdsson - 2 freq
secretariat - 1 freq
saicretlie - 3 freq
securit - 2 freq
seecrit - 1 freq
sacrit - 3 freq
saicretarial - 1 freq
socrates - 3 freq
securitie - 3 freq
secretars - 1 freq
sae-cryed - 2 freq
security's - 1 freq
saecret - 1 freq
sugared - 1 freq
sacerdott - 1 freq
seicret - 3 freq
sikkart - 1 freq
secretair - 1 freq
secreted - 1 freq
secretar-general - 1 freq
secretarial - 1 freq
secretion - 1 freq
'secretar - 1 freq
secretar's - 1 freq
secreterar - 1 freq
secretions - 1 freq
secretedin - 1 freq
socceraid - 1 freq
siccared - 1 freq
secretht - 2 freq
secretive - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SKRTS
secrets - 39 freq
skrieds - 1 freq
saicrets - 9 freq
skirts - 26 freq
scarts - 9 freq
cigarettes - 9 freq
squirts - 1 freq
skarts - 3 freq
sigurd's - 7 freq
screeds - 13 freq
secret's - 1 freq
scraat's - 1 freq
skreids - 6 freq
sacrets - 1 freq
scairts - 1 freq
skirt's - 1 freq
skritts - 1 freq
screids - 5 freq
socrates - 3 freq
security's - 1 freq
ceegarettes - 7 freq
ceigarettes - 1 freq
screed's - 1 freq
SOCRATES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.201545 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 - 0.398294 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 - 0.028278 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 - 0.037908 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 - 0.000816 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.