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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to ains in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
ains (0) - 15 freq
aint (1) - 13 freq
ails (1) - 9 freq
airs (1) - 38 freq
anns (1) - 1 freq
aans (1) - 1 freq
ans (1) - 2 freq
awns (1) - 17 freq
rains (1) - 27 freq
hains (1) - 5 freq
cains (1) - 1 freq
mins (1) - 30 freq
gains (1) - 8 freq
wins (1) - 78 freq
ins (1) - 14 freq
kains (1) - 1 freq
yins (1) - 467 freq
ain (1) - 2885 freq
aiks (1) - 3 freq
aids (1) - 9 freq
tins (1) - 38 freq
eins (1) - 2 freq
aigs (1) - 1 freq
lins (1) - 3 freq
kins (1) - 15 freq
ains (0) - 15 freq
ans (1) - 2 freq
yins (1) - 467 freq
eins (1) - 2 freq
ins (1) - 14 freq
aans (1) - 1 freq
aines (1) - 2 freq
insy (2) - 4 freq
oens (2) - 1 freq
nis (2) - 2 freq
niys (2) - 1 freq
einas (2) - 1 freq
fins (2) - 37 freq
ain- (2) - 1 freq
wains (2) - 13 freq
ain's (2) - 3 freq
aits (2) - 21 freq
sins (2) - 59 freq
anse (2) - 4 freq
arins (2) - 1 freq
ons (2) - 1 freq
eens (2) - 131 freq
eans (2) - 10 freq
anas (2) - 9 freq
ns (2) - 15 freq
SoundEx code - A520
aince - 459 freq
ang - 8 freq
aneugh - 15 freq
aneuch - 31 freq
anes - 222 freq
ain-och - 1 freq
an---och - 1 freq
anyweys - 1 freq
ance - 72 freq
awns - 17 freq
angie - 36 freq
'angie - 5 freq
anxi - 4 freq
anas - 9 freq
anyways - 12 freq
amuse - 8 freq
awmous - 4 freq
ane's - 11 freq
annoys - 4 freq
amok - 1 freq
aims - 14 freq
a-miss - 1 freq
annie's - 8 freq
aeons - 1 freq
amyoose - 1 freq
ains - 15 freq
amaze - 4 freq
anna's - 3 freq
amoco - 1 freq
annnnngggggggeeeeeewwwahhh - 1 freq
anq - 2 freq
aums - 1 freq
aeneas - 3 freq
anes' - 2 freq
'aince - 1 freq
an-och - 1 freq
amiss - 16 freq
anagh - 1 freq
an-ugh - 1 freq
ann's - 4 freq
anne's - 2 freq
annas - 2 freq
amos - 3 freq
am's - 2 freq
an's - 4 freq
amnesia - 1 freq
ank - 1 freq
anyoch - 25 freq
aamos - 5 freq
annies - 1 freq
ameise - 1 freq
aence - 8 freq
ameuse - 1 freq
annexe - 1 freq
anso - 1 freq
amuck - 1 freq
ans - 2 freq
aa'hing - 5 freq
anse - 4 freq
aneoch - 2 freq
an'-qh - 1 freq
ain's - 3 freq
aans - 1 freq
annays - 1 freq
'anus' - 1 freq
€œaneugh - 1 freq
annex - 4 freq
€œaince - 4 freq
amico - 1 freq
a-muigh - 1 freq
ange - 1 freq
anzio - 1 freq
aeyhing - 1 freq
€™ang - 2 freq
aines - 2 freq
ahing - 1 freq
anns - 1 freq
awmox - 1 freq
angieh - 1 freq
aÂ’hinÂ’s - 1 freq
aneÂ’s - 1 freq
aimee's - 1 freq
anyhoos - 13 freq
aeonmag - 1 freq
a'hing - 4 freq
annjj - 1 freq
aewing - 1 freq
ayoung - 1 freq
amigo - 3 freq
amys - 1 freq
amc - 1 freq
annec - 3 freq
ammys - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - ANS
aince - 459 freq
anes - 222 freq
ance - 72 freq
awns - 17 freq
anas - 9 freq
ane's - 11 freq
annoys - 4 freq
annie's - 8 freq
ains - 15 freq
anna's - 3 freq
anes' - 2 freq
'aince - 1 freq
ann's - 4 freq
anne's - 2 freq
annas - 2 freq
an's - 4 freq
annies - 1 freq
anso - 1 freq
ans - 2 freq
anse - 4 freq
ain's - 3 freq
aans - 1 freq
annays - 1 freq
'anus' - 1 freq
€œaince - 4 freq
anzio - 1 freq
aines - 2 freq
anns - 1 freq
aneÂ’s - 1 freq
AINS
own - 168 freq
ain - 2885 freq
ains - 15 freq
owns - 13 freq
owner - 28 freq
owned - 23 freq
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.199425 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 - 0.344242 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 - 0.028183 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 - 0.037032 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 - 0.001064 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.