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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to styles in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
styles (0) - 14 freq
styes (1) - 3 freq
stylus (1) - 1 freq
style' (1) - 2 freq
tyles (1) - 1 freq
style (1) - 158 freq
styled (1) - 1 freq
sales (2) - 31 freq
sles (2) - 1 freq
skytes (2) - 1 freq
stylish (2) - 3 freq
tykes (2) - 7 freq
sybes (2) - 1 freq
stilts (2) - 9 freq
stalks (2) - 6 freq
tydes (2) - 1 freq
styme (2) - 2 freq
stole (2) - 52 freq
stares (2) - 41 freq
stills (2) - 5 freq
sypes (2) - 5 freq
tynes (2) - 3 freq
tles (2) - 1 freq
jyles (2) - 1 freq
smyl's (2) - 1 freq
styles (0) - 14 freq
stylus (1) - 1 freq
styled (2) - 1 freq
tyles (2) - 1 freq
style (2) - 158 freq
styes (2) - 3 freq
style' (2) - 2 freq
scules (3) - 1 freq
stylie (3) - 1 freq
styalls (3) - 1 freq
staples (3) - 1 freq
stylist (3) - 2 freq
sakles (3) - 2 freq
stule (3) - 1 freq
skules (3) - 4 freq
stile (3) - 19 freq
stele (3) - 1 freq
tyls (3) - 1 freq
stokes (3) - 2 freq
stolen (3) - 31 freq
siles (3) - 1 freq
soles (3) - 16 freq
stres (3) - 1 freq
sidles (3) - 2 freq
scales (3) - 21 freq
SoundEx code - S342
stalks - 6 freq
steel-shod - 1 freq
stalls - 10 freq
stalk - 18 freq
shettleston - 10 freq
sweitless - 1 freq
stylistically - 1 freq
sidles - 2 freq
stalked - 2 freq
seddles - 1 freq
stells - 4 freq
saddles - 3 freq
stuils - 2 freq
stalking - 2 freq
sydwuliy's - 1 freq
stallie's - 1 freq
still-like - 1 freq
settles - 11 freq
stillest - 1 freq
stalk's - 1 freq
styles - 14 freq
sidlaws - 1 freq
stalkin - 7 freq
stools - 2 freq
stylishly - 2 freq
stalky - 2 freq
sweet-talkin - 1 freq
seedlies - 7 freq
sidewheels - 1 freq
skuttles - 1 freq
sattles - 2 freq
stalkit - 2 freq
shitless - 1 freq
styalls - 1 freq
styluses - 1 freq
stylus - 1 freq
stills - 5 freq
stylish - 3 freq
sidlees - 1 freq
skaithless - 2 freq
steel-caps - 1 freq
stylistic - 1 freq
skaithles - 2 freq
saut-like - 1 freq
staels - 2 freq
staalkin - 2 freq
staalker - 1 freq
steel's - 1 freq
saidils - 1 freq
stylised - 3 freq
skittles - 1 freq
€˜shettleston - 1 freq
stylist - 2 freq
steals - 2 freq
schedules - 1 freq
stalactite - 1 freq
swith-like - 1 freq
stalker - 2 freq
stillstandingfree - 1 freq
stooiewalker - 2 freq
stillgame - 1 freq
shettlestonclp - 1 freq
steelyseabirder - 4 freq
styleshifting - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - STLS
stalls - 10 freq
sidles - 2 freq
seddles - 1 freq
stells - 4 freq
saddles - 3 freq
stuils - 2 freq
stallie's - 1 freq
settles - 11 freq
styles - 14 freq
sidlaws - 1 freq
stools - 2 freq
seedlies - 7 freq
sattles - 2 freq
stylus - 1 freq
stills - 5 freq
sidlees - 1 freq
staels - 2 freq
steel's - 1 freq
saidils - 1 freq
steals - 2 freq
STYLES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.299541 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 - 0.687298 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 - 0.037836 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 - 0.078905 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 - 0.000918 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.