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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to aires in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
aires (0) - 1 freq
airses (1) - 3 freq
hires (1) - 1 freq
ares (1) - 3 freq
air's (1) - 26 freq
airrs (1) - 2 freq
aixes (1) - 4 freq
airer (1) - 1 freq
aircs (1) - 1 freq
aines (1) - 2 freq
airis (1) - 1 freq
mires (1) - 3 freq
airies (1) - 1 freq
aire (1) - 61 freq
lires (1) - 1 freq
wires (1) - 27 freq
tires (1) - 2 freq
ayres (1) - 1 freq
aiges (1) - 3 freq
aire's (1) - 17 freq
acres (1) - 24 freq
airts (1) - 356 freq
airms (1) - 451 freq
airds (1) - 15 freq
aizes (1) - 1 freq
aires (0) - 1 freq
ayres (1) - 1 freq
airs (1) - 38 freq
airies (1) - 1 freq
airis (1) - 1 freq
ares (1) - 3 freq
irs (2) - 1 freq
eres (2) - 1 freq
ars (2) - 2 freq
aises (2) - 1 freq
iris (2) - 3 freq
aizes (2) - 1 freq
fires (2) - 48 freq
aers (2) - 2 freq
aurs (2) - 1 freq
yirs (2) - 4 freq
aries (2) - 3 freq
areas (2) - 94 freq
airds (2) - 15 freq
eirs (2) - 3 freq
eares (2) - 1 freq
airse (2) - 13 freq
res (2) - 2 freq
aixes (2) - 4 freq
aines (2) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - A620
arise - 10 freq
airs - 38 freq
areas - 94 freq
are-ach - 1 freq
argue - 50 freq
airk - 3 freq
aawhaurs - 2 freq
arse - 115 freq
argie - 17 freq
arras - 24 freq
araise - 1 freq
archway - 3 freq
arch - 13 freq
archie - 92 freq
airch - 12 freq
arose - 15 freq
aers - 2 freq
ayres - 1 freq
argy - 6 freq
air's - 26 freq
arraws - 1 freq
airse - 13 freq
auroch - 2 freq
arcs - 1 freq
airchee - 1 freq
aroass - 1 freq
arc - 7 freq
argo - 6 freq
ark - 12 freq
'aaargh - 1 freq
'aargh - 1 freq
aries - 3 freq
airchie - 71 freq
awrchi - 1 freq
archwye - 4 freq
arghhh - 1 freq
aaaargh - 1 freq
'arse' - 1 freq
airies - 1 freq
aire's - 17 freq
airish - 38 freq
arrows - 4 freq
a-ors - 1 freq
arase - 1 freq
aircs - 1 freq
argh - 4 freq
aweers - 1 freq
argie' - 1 freq
awwhaurs - 1 freq
ayrez - 1 freq
ayre's - 1 freq
ares - 3 freq
arsia - 1 freq
arks - 1 freq
€œaires - 1 freq
airis - 1 freq
awhaurs - 1 freq
airrs - 2 freq
aurs - 1 freq
arrige - 1 freq
ars - 2 freq
€˜aaaargh - 1 freq
airgie - 1 freq
airisch - 6 freq
arezzo - 1 freq
€œarrggghh - 1 freq
€œaargh - 2 freq
airsch - 3 freq
airgue - 3 freq
airways - 3 freq
arraes - 1 freq
airc - 1 freq
aireÂ’s - 2 freq
awork - 1 freq
airÂ’s - 1 freq
aires - 1 freq
'airs - 1 freq
aaaaaargh - 1 freq
arz - 1 freq
arky - 1 freq
ahirshah - 1 freq
ayrsh - 1 freq
archaeo - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - ARS
arise - 10 freq
airs - 38 freq
areas - 94 freq
arse - 115 freq
arras - 24 freq
araise - 1 freq
arose - 15 freq
ayres - 1 freq
air's - 26 freq
arraws - 1 freq
airse - 13 freq
aroass - 1 freq
aries - 3 freq
'arse' - 1 freq
airies - 1 freq
aire's - 17 freq
arrows - 4 freq
a-ors - 1 freq
arase - 1 freq
ayrez - 1 freq
ayre's - 1 freq
ares - 3 freq
€œaires - 1 freq
airis - 1 freq
airrs - 2 freq
aurs - 1 freq
ars - 2 freq
arezzo - 1 freq
arraes - 1 freq
aireÂ’s - 2 freq
airÂ’s - 1 freq
aires - 1 freq
'airs - 1 freq
arz - 1 freq
AIRES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.214810 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 - 0.370783 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 - 0.028263 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 - 0.036795 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 - 0.000896 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.