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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to weaves in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
weaves (0) - 8 freq
weavers (1) - 9 freq
heaves (1) - 2 freq
weaved (1) - 2 freq
weave (1) - 24 freq
waves (1) - 137 freq
eaves (1) - 2 freq
weaver (1) - 12 freq
leaves (1) - 203 freq
deaved (2) - 13 freq
graves (2) - 31 freq
waxes (2) - 1 freq
saves (2) - 11 freq
daves (2) - 2 freq
deives (2) - 1 freq
wave' (2) - 1 freq
reeves (2) - 5 freq
weans (2) - 615 freq
weaken (2) - 1 freq
weires (2) - 1 freq
nerves (2) - 43 freq
wayes (2) - 1 freq
weakest (2) - 3 freq
heaved (2) - 6 freq
waives (2) - 1 freq
weaves (0) - 8 freq
waves (1) - 137 freq
wives (2) - 42 freq
waives (2) - 1 freq
wouves (2) - 1 freq
wyves (2) - 1 freq
weaver (2) - 12 freq
leaves (2) - 203 freq
heaves (2) - 2 freq
weavers (2) - 9 freq
weaved (2) - 2 freq
weave (2) - 24 freq
eaves (2) - 2 freq
leives (3) - 3 freq
wees (3) - 1 freq
meeves (3) - 1 freq
wenes (3) - 1 freq
maves (3) - 8 freq
wave (3) - 129 freq
loaves (3) - 5 freq
taves (3) - 4 freq
wavers (3) - 1 freq
wyvis (3) - 1 freq
wares (3) - 6 freq
neives (3) - 10 freq
SoundEx code - W120
weeps - 1 freq
waves - 137 freq
wappie's - 1 freq
wouves - 1 freq
wives - 42 freq
wife's - 27 freq
whips - 22 freq
wipes - 4 freq
whoops - 9 freq
wowfs - 3 freq
wowffs - 1 freq
wifock - 1 freq
waffs - 7 freq
wifies - 57 freq
wifie's - 19 freq
whaups - 21 freq
wifies' - 2 freq
waps - 1 freq
wheeps - 1 freq
waive's - 11 freq
wave's - 1 freq
waives - 1 freq
wayv's - 1 freq
waiv's - 1 freq
wyfe's - 1 freq
wabs - 10 freq
wifes - 7 freq
weaves - 8 freq
whaps - 3 freq
whaup's - 1 freq
whuffs - 3 freq
'whips - 1 freq
webs - 2 freq
wheefs - 1 freq
wouffs - 1 freq
wives' - 1 freq
wab's - 2 freq
waffish - 2 freq
wips - 1 freq
wey-bauk - 1 freq
wyvis - 1 freq
wyffis - 1 freq
wyves - 1 freq
wyfes - 2 freq
whaaps - 1 freq
wyfis - 1 freq
waifs - 1 freq
wyiffis - 1 freq
whiffs - 1 freq
whaupshaw - 4 freq
woufs - 1 freq
wouf's - 2 freq
wiffies - 1 freq
whap's - 1 freq
wbki - 1 freq
wifeys - 1 freq
wifie’s - 2 freq
wwfxqo - 1 freq
wife’s - 3 freq
wpz - 1 freq
wbgy - 1 freq
wuvx - 1 freq
wpg - 1 freq
wbkuy - 1 freq
wipkh - 1 freq
wvix - 1 freq
weaaufbiss - 1 freq
wbaggs - 1 freq
wives’ - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - WFS
waves - 137 freq
wouves - 1 freq
wives - 42 freq
wife's - 27 freq
wowfs - 3 freq
wowffs - 1 freq
waffs - 7 freq
wifies - 57 freq
wifie's - 19 freq
wifies' - 2 freq
waive's - 11 freq
wave's - 1 freq
waives - 1 freq
wayv's - 1 freq
waiv's - 1 freq
wifes - 7 freq
weaves - 8 freq
weighs - 3 freq
whuffs - 3 freq
wheefs - 1 freq
wouffs - 1 freq
wives' - 1 freq
waifs - 1 freq
whiffs - 1 freq
woufs - 1 freq
wouf's - 2 freq
wiffies - 1 freq
wifeys - 1 freq
wifie’s - 2 freq
wife’s - 3 freq
wives’ - 1 freq
WEAVES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.172654 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 - 0.349369 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 - 0.028117 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 - 0.042700 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 - 0.000861 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.