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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to ansuer in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
ansuer (0) - 1 freq
anser (1) - 5 freq
answer (1) - 444 freq
nswer (2) - 1 freq
awnswer (2) - 2 freq
ansir (2) - 1 freq
ensued (2) - 3 freq
unser (2) - 3 freq
anger (2) - 73 freq
answers (2) - 74 freq
anse (2) - 4 freq
answert (2) - 158 freq
danser (2) - 1 freq
aster (2) - 1 freq
angler (2) - 1 freq
awnser (2) - 5 freq
assuir (2) - 2 freq
'answer (2) - 2 freq
ansed (2) - 1 freq
aunswer (2) - 2 freq
unswer (2) - 6 freq
ensues (2) - 2 freq
auer (2) - 1 freq
hansper (2) - 1 freq
asher (2) - 1 freq
ansuer (0) - 1 freq
anser (1) - 5 freq
unser (2) - 3 freq
ansar (2) - 1 freq
ansir (2) - 1 freq
aunser (2) - 2 freq
answer (2) - 444 freq
insure (3) - 2 freq
answeir (3) - 2 freq
ainster (3) - 2 freq
aunsir (3) - 1 freq
enster (3) - 2 freq
aner (3) - 2 freq
aisier (3) - 12 freq
aser (3) - 1 freq
aesier (3) - 13 freq
panser (3) - 26 freq
ensues (3) - 2 freq
anurr (3) - 4 freq
asseer (3) - 1 freq
aunswer (3) - 2 freq
anse (3) - 4 freq
unswer (3) - 6 freq
insear (3) - 1 freq
anger (3) - 73 freq
SoundEx code - A526
answer - 444 freq
answert - 158 freq
angry - 84 freq
angrily - 19 freq
answerin - 21 freq
ainswert - 1 freq
answers - 74 freq
answered - 116 freq
anchor - 28 freq
angert - 16 freq
angriest - 2 freq
anger - 73 freq
angert-like - 1 freq
aunswert - 1 freq
angrier - 6 freq
answerable - 2 freq
anchored - 10 freq
aunchorit - 1 freq
angered - 2 freq
awnswer - 2 freq
'answer - 2 freq
answer't - 18 freq
anachronistic - 2 freq
answeran - 1 freq
answer's - 3 freq
ang'r - 2 freq
ang'rie - 7 freq
ans'ers - 1 freq
anchort - 3 freq
anacreon - 1 freq
anggert - 1 freq
angirt-lik - 1 freq
awnser - 5 freq
annacker's - 2 freq
anocher - 1 freq
anchorin - 1 freq
angerow - 1 freq
ansuer - 1 freq
an-soor - 1 freq
anchors - 1 freq
ainger - 3 freq
angry' - 1 freq
aince-a-year - 1 freq
answer-na - 1 freq
angersome - 1 freq
answer''t - 1 freq
anchorage - 1 freq
aunser - 2 freq
answerit - 1 freq
answering - 4 freq
awnsert - 4 freq
awnsers - 1 freq
angirt - 3 freq
aunsert - 1 freq
anachronisms - 2 freq
anser - 5 freq
anchoring - 1 freq
aunswer - 2 freq
aunsir - 1 freq
ancrum - 1 freq
answer- - 1 freq
angeret - 1 freq
answeirt - 1 freq
angreen - 1 freq
answeir - 2 freq
ansir - 1 freq
anmgroup - 1 freq
angryscotland - 3 freq
answeryourphonr - 1 freq
anassarwar - 9 freq
angrya - 3 freq
amycharlton - 1 freq
anagram - 1 freq
amshru - 1 freq
angrysalmond - 3 freq
amygear - 4 freq
angrykid - 1 freq
ansar - 1 freq
amygarbett - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - ANSR
awnser - 5 freq
ansuer - 1 freq
an-soor - 1 freq
aunser - 2 freq
anser - 5 freq
aunsir - 1 freq
ansir - 1 freq
ansar - 1 freq
ANSUER
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.193872 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 - 0.354175 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 - 0.038046 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 - 0.048310 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 - 0.001087 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.