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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to virus in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
virus (0) - 57 freq
viris (1) - 1 freq
verus (1) - 1 freq
rrus (2) - 1 freq
hir's (2) - 1 freq
tires (2) - 2 freq
girls (2) - 58 freq
venus (2) - 32 freq
viry (2) - 9 freq
virr (2) - 55 freq
viral (2) - 3 freq
wirs (2) - 4 freq
girs (2) - 4 freq
'ir's (2) - 3 freq
titus (2) - 1 freq
air's (2) - 26 freq
tirvs (2) - 1 freq
dirs (2) - 28 freq
airs (2) - 38 freq
pious (2) - 4 freq
dirks (2) - 4 freq
girds (2) - 5 freq
vi's (2) - 4 freq
virry (2) - 2 freq
fir's (2) - 3 freq
virus (0) - 57 freq
viris (1) - 1 freq
verus (1) - 1 freq
vers (2) - 1 freq
varius (2) - 1 freq
vir (3) - 1 freq
sirs (3) - 6 freq
wires (3) - 27 freq
hires (3) - 1 freq
virtue (3) - 15 freq
lires (3) - 1 freq
virk (3) - 1 freq
virtues (3) - 7 freq
views (3) - 58 freq
vices (3) - 12 freq
vis (3) - 1 freq
firs (3) - 6 freq
airis (3) - 1 freq
giros (3) - 1 freq
verbs (3) - 98 freq
varios (3) - 1 freq
eirs (3) - 3 freq
viruses (3) - 3 freq
veers (3) - 1 freq
hirs (3) - 5 freq
SoundEx code - V620
various - 59 freq
verse - 127 freq
vairse - 15 freq
verge - 9 freq
vera's - 3 freq
versie - 1 freq
virus - 57 freq
vers - 1 freq
versa - 4 freq
verucca - 2 freq
veruca - 39 freq
'veruca - 2 freq
verse' - 1 freq
varius - 1 freq
virgo - 1 freq
vawrious - 2 freq
'vairse' - 1 freq
varse - 1 freq
voars - 3 freq
varg - 6 freq
viewers - 6 freq
verus - 1 freq
verk - 2 freq
vark - 1 freq
vuark - 1 freq
varck - 1 freq
vork - 1 freq
virk - 1 freq
vyrk - 1 freq
varies - 2 freq
versy - 1 freq
vries - 1 freq
veers - 1 freq
vrck - 1 freq
verish - 1 freq
vrajs - 1 freq
virkie - 1 freq
varios - 1 freq
viris - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FRS
fairies - 38 freq
fierce - 33 freq
furras - 1 freq
phrase - 121 freq
forcie - 4 freq
various - 59 freq
verse - 127 freq
fairce - 3 freq
fears - 40 freq
feres - 52 freq
fire's - 8 freq
frees - 4 freq
force - 126 freq
fieres - 3 freq
far's - 20 freq
furs - 6 freq
faar's - 4 freq
freeze - 23 freq
froze - 21 freq
furrows - 4 freq
fires - 48 freq
faeries - 13 freq
pharaohs - 2 freq
vairse - 15 freq
foresaw - 1 freq
fares - 5 freq
vera's - 3 freq
fiers - 6 freq
fair's - 1 freq
for's - 1 freq
versie - 1 freq
fairs - 10 freq
faroes - 7 freq
faur's - 5 freq
frae's - 2 freq
firs - 6 freq
pharoahss - 1 freq
foarse - 1 freq
'far's - 3 freq
virus - 57 freq
vers - 1 freq
versa - 4 freq
furious - 11 freq
fir's - 3 freq
force' - 1 freq
frieze - 2 freq
ferries - 5 freq
farce - 17 freq
pharisee - 13 freq
forays - 2 freq
fre's - 2 freq
fearce - 1 freq
faers - 2 freq
foresee - 7 freq
verse' - 1 freq
varius - 1 freq
faerce - 6 freq
furrs - 1 freq
fries' - 1 freq
frass' - 1 freq
foras - 3 freq
vawrious - 2 freq
freize - 1 freq
'vairse' - 1 freq
frae'z - 1 freq
forss - 3 freq
varse - 1 freq
ferry's - 1 freq
fairese - 1 freq
firse - 1 freq
voars - 3 freq
feeroese - 1 freq
feroese - 1 freq
frys - 1 freq
frizzy - 2 freq
fehrs - 1 freq
fur's - 2 freq
feires - 1 freq
feirs - 3 freq
faroese - 4 freq
fres - 1 freq
fraise - 2 freq
pharoah's - 1 freq
fyres - 3 freq
fries - 3 freq
fress - 1 freq
fars - 14 freq
verus - 1 freq
fuirs - 1 freq
ferss - 1 freq
foirsei - 1 freq
varies - 2 freq
pharos - 1 freq
versy - 1 freq
fours - 2 freq
vries - 1 freq
fiooers - 2 freq
faras - 1 freq
forrays - 1 freq
€˜feres - 1 freq
veers - 1 freq
ferris - 1 freq
fuar's - 7 freq
fores - 1 freq
fraes - 1 freq
faroeeze - 1 freq
force” - 1 freq
frz - 1 freq
fraazee - 1 freq
forres - 3 freq
farÂ’s - 1 freq
forsee - 1 freq
varios - 1 freq
viris - 1 freq
VIRUS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.196595 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 - 0.384012 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 - 0.030223 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 - 0.038759 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 - 0.000862 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.