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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to ankles in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
ankles (0) - 24 freq
fankles (1) - 4 freq
angles (1) - 25 freq
rankles (1) - 2 freq
anklers (1) - 1 freq
ankle (1) - 35 freq
ankle's (1) - 1 freq
yackles (2) - 1 freq
auncles (2) - 1 freq
alkies (2) - 4 freq
angle (2) - 21 freq
ainkle (2) - 1 freq
hanles (2) - 1 freq
handles (2) - 4 freq
dangles (2) - 1 freq
hackles (2) - 3 freq
bangles (2) - 3 freq
anglers (2) - 1 freq
daikles (2) - 2 freq
rinkles (2) - 1 freq
ackley (2) - 1 freq
aisles (2) - 3 freq
onles (2) - 2 freq
ales (2) - 1 freq
tackles (2) - 3 freq
ankles (0) - 24 freq
ankle's (2) - 1 freq
anklers (2) - 1 freq
ankle (2) - 35 freq
rankles (2) - 2 freq
fankles (2) - 4 freq
angles (2) - 25 freq
uncles (3) - 19 freq
onkils (3) - 1 freq
rinkles (3) - 1 freq
runkles (3) - 1 freq
onles (3) - 2 freq
kles (3) - 2 freq
yankies (3) - 1 freq
daikles (3) - 2 freq
ingles (3) - 1 freq
saikles (3) - 2 freq
sakles (3) - 2 freq
angeles (3) - 4 freq
auncles (3) - 1 freq
yackles (3) - 1 freq
ainkle (3) - 1 freq
inhales (4) - 1 freq
enables (4) - 1 freq
annals (4) - 5 freq
SoundEx code - A524
angel - 113 freq
angels - 64 freq
angler - 1 freq
ankles - 24 freq
angle - 21 freq
ahimsel - 1 freq
'angela - 1 freq
angela - 46 freq
angela's - 2 freq
ankle - 35 freq
angelic - 9 freq
anes'll - 1 freq
angelus - 1 freq
anglian - 1 freq
ankles're - 1 freq
angles - 25 freq
aungels - 1 freq
ankle's - 1 freq
anglicans - 2 freq
anglesey - 1 freq
angleesh - 7 freq
angels' - 2 freq
ainslie - 6 freq
angelica - 4 freq
anklers - 1 freq
anglicised - 5 freq
anglo-scot - 1 freq
angels'll - 1 freq
angel's - 4 freq
angelou - 2 freq
anglicisation - 5 freq
anclapped - 1 freq
ang'les - 1 freq
anglo-saxon - 9 freq
angils - 1 freq
angells - 1 freq
angeles - 4 freq
anglicanism - 1 freq
ancillary - 1 freq
angel-wise - 1 freq
anglify - 1 freq
angiolieri - 5 freq
angelical - 1 freq
'ankle-sock' - 1 freq
anglification - 1 freq
anglified - 2 freq
anglice - 1 freq
anglican - 1 freq
anglin - 2 freq
anglifeed - 1 freq
anes'l - 1 freq
auncles - 1 freq
anglicise - 3 freq
ainsel - 1 freq
angellis - 1 freq
anglicisin - 2 freq
ainsels - 1 freq
angliceesed - 1 freq
anglo-british - 1 freq
ainkle - 1 freq
anglais - 2 freq
anglo-norman - 2 freq
anglicisms - 1 freq
anglers - 1 freq
anglish - 1 freq
anglo - 2 freq
angular - 1 freq
anjali - 1 freq
anglo-scots - 1 freq
angelahaggerty - 26 freq
angelagraham - 42 freq
angelinekking - 92 freq
ancelottisibrow - 1 freq
anglicising - 1 freq
angelo - 1 freq
amycallaghansnp - 2 freq
angelachick - 2 freq
anncleeves - 1 freq
anglophobia - 1 freq
annieglen - 2 freq
angelam - 1 freq
angelacrawley - 1 freq
angelosantok - 2 freq
amajxlf - 1 freq
'angel's - 1 freq
annskelly - 1 freq
angelauk - 4 freq
angeline - 7 freq
MetaPhone code - ANKLS
ankles - 24 freq
angles - 25 freq
ankle's - 1 freq
anglesey - 1 freq
ang'les - 1 freq
anglice - 1 freq
auncles - 1 freq
anglais - 2 freq
ANKLES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.167049 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 - 0.334979 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 - 0.027795 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 - 0.037764 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 - 0.001020 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.