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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to victories in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
victories (0) - 5 freq
victries (1) - 1 freq
victorie (1) - 9 freq
victorie's (1) - 1 freq
victoria (2) - 27 freq
histories (2) - 17 freq
victors (2) - 1 freq
factories (2) - 12 freq
victorians (2) - 4 freq
victor's (2) - 2 freq
victorious (2) - 3 freq
victorian (2) - 22 freq
victrie (2) - 1 freq
pict'res (3) - 4 freq
victor (3) - 34 freq
directories (3) - 1 freq
fectorie (3) - 1 freq
witries (3) - 2 freq
vistors (3) - 1 freq
pictures (3) - 76 freq
faktories (3) - 1 freq
intries (3) - 1 freq
tories (3) - 115 freq
stories (3) - 352 freq
airteries (3) - 1 freq
victories (0) - 5 freq
victries (1) - 1 freq
victors (2) - 1 freq
victorious (2) - 3 freq
victorie's (2) - 1 freq
victorie (2) - 9 freq
victor's (3) - 2 freq
victorian (3) - 22 freq
victrie (3) - 1 freq
victoria (3) - 27 freq
factories (3) - 12 freq
victorians (3) - 4 freq
pictures (4) - 76 freq
veectorious (4) - 1 freq
vistors (4) - 1 freq
victor (4) - 34 freq
histories (4) - 17 freq
victory (4) - 44 freq
victims (4) - 10 freq
pictoors (5) - 1 freq
pictirs (5) - 3 freq
visitors (5) - 46 freq
veectrie (5) - 1 freq
vicarious (5) - 1 freq
citris (5) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - V236
veesitors - 50 freq
veesitor - 21 freq
veisitor - 7 freq
'veisitor' - 1 freq
victory - 44 freq
victor's - 2 freq
victor - 34 freq
visiturs - 1 freq
victoria - 27 freq
visitors - 46 freq
victorious - 3 freq
victorie - 9 freq
victorie's - 1 freq
victorian - 22 freq
visitor - 23 freq
victries - 1 freq
vestry - 3 freq
vegetarian - 9 freq
vegetarians - 3 freq
victrie - 1 freq
veesitor's - 1 freq
vestiary - 1 freq
'veesitors - 1 freq
veesiters - 2 freq
'victoria - 2 freq
visietor - 5 freq
visietor's - 1 freq
visitir - 1 freq
visitor'll - 1 freq
veectorious - 1 freq
victoary - 1 freq
veectrie - 1 freq
visitors' - 1 freq
victorians - 4 freq
veisitour - 1 freq
veisitar - 2 freq
veisitors - 2 freq
vistor - 1 freq
victories - 5 freq
€œvictor - 1 freq
veesiter - 1 freq
veesitur - 1 freq
vísitor - 1 freq
vísitors - 1 freq
victors - 1 freq
vistors - 1 freq
viseetirs - 1 freq
vicderbyshire - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - FKTRS
victor's - 2 freq
factories - 12 freq
victorious - 3 freq
victorie's - 1 freq
victries - 1 freq
factory's - 1 freq
factors - 21 freq
faictors - 3 freq
faktories - 1 freq
veectorious - 1 freq
victories - 5 freq
victors - 1 freq
VICTORIES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.209977 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 - 0.393376 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 - 0.028491 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 - 0.038079 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 - 0.000854 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.