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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to sweeches in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
sweeches (0) - 1 freq
speeches (1) - 18 freq
sweechis (1) - 2 freq
sweeries (2) - 1 freq
screeches (2) - 3 freq
sweechd (2) - 1 freq
weeshes (2) - 1 freq
beeches (2) - 1 freq
sweeshed (2) - 3 freq
seechs (2) - 1 freq
seeched (2) - 1 freq
switches (2) - 7 freq
fleeches (2) - 2 freq
sweeties (2) - 103 freq
sketches (2) - 3 freq
leeches (2) - 4 freq
wenches (2) - 2 freq
breeches (2) - 1 freq
sweechan (2) - 3 freq
swatches (2) - 16 freq
sweech (2) - 3 freq
streches (2) - 1 freq
sweetness (3) - 17 freq
sweemers (3) - 1 freq
sweeper (3) - 3 freq
sweeches (0) - 1 freq
sweechis (1) - 2 freq
speeches (2) - 18 freq
switches (3) - 7 freq
swichis (3) - 5 freq
seechs (3) - 1 freq
sweechan (3) - 3 freq
swatches (3) - 16 freq
sweech (3) - 3 freq
sweechd (3) - 1 freq
searches (4) - 4 freq
sheuchs (4) - 13 freq
swaatches (4) - 10 freq
swatchis (4) - 1 freq
swishes (4) - 1 freq
sairches (4) - 1 freq
swecht (4) - 1 freq
steuchs (4) - 1 freq
streches (4) - 1 freq
stiches (4) - 2 freq
slouches (4) - 1 freq
swathes (4) - 6 freq
leeches (4) - 4 freq
wenches (4) - 2 freq
weeshes (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - S220
sixes - 2 freq
sizes - 41 freq
sauchs - 9 freq
sausage - 43 freq
sakes - 22 freq
shakes - 22 freq
souchs - 24 freq
success - 96 freq
sassage - 5 freq
sachs - 4 freq
squeezes - 3 freq
sickies - 1 freq
swishes - 1 freq
sheughs - 9 freq
susie's - 4 freq
sagas - 3 freq
sicweys - 7 freq
syze's - 1 freq
suzukee - 1 freq
sighs - 20 freq
saasage - 8 freq
sheugh's - 1 freq
seechs - 1 freq
suze's - 1 freq
sages - 1 freq
sheuchs - 13 freq
sikhs - 3 freq
sashes - 3 freq
sheuch's - 1 freq
sheikhs - 2 freq
siouxsie's - 1 freq
suki's - 1 freq
sucesso' - 1 freq
sichs - 5 freq
seaseek - 1 freq
shuggie's - 3 freq
suzie's - 1 freq
shewcaase - 2 freq
seggies - 1 freq
swæjies - 1 freq
sexes - 5 freq
souchikie - 1 freq
sykes - 1 freq
sikkis - 1 freq
sauchiehauch - 1 freq
sucess - 1 freq
sekes - 2 freq
shawcase - 1 freq
shuggy-shoo - 1 freq
seagows - 1 freq
sussex - 1 freq
siggies - 1 freq
saaces - 1 freq
soasij - 2 freq
swichis - 5 freq
sweechis - 2 freq
sweeches - 1 freq
sicweis - 1 freq
skuggis - 1 freq
saughs - 1 freq
sasuge - 1 freq
segas - 1 freq
sazcaz - 3 freq
sicwyes - 4 freq
sausage' - 1 freq
suxswgowu - 1 freq
suzieq - 3 freq
seahooses - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SWXS
swishes - 1 freq
swatches - 16 freq
switches - 7 freq
swaatches - 10 freq
swatchis - 1 freq
swichis - 5 freq
sweechis - 2 freq
sweeches - 1 freq
SWEECHES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.195202 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 - 0.367354 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 - 0.028423 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 - 0.037667 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 - 0.000890 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.