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Levenshtein Distance

Enter a word to find nearest neighbouring words, for example ahint

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Similar words to areas in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
areas (0) - 93 freq
ares (1) - 3 freq
area (1) - 165 freq
preas (1) - 1 freq
arras (1) - 24 freq
area' (1) - 1 freq
arenae (2) - 83 freq
wrens (2) - 1 freq
dread (2) - 30 freq
bras (2) - 2 freq
arabs (2) - 3 freq
pleas (2) - 9 freq
arms (2) - 64 freq
arraes (2) - 1 freq
fres (2) - 1 freq
aye's (2) - 1 freq
aroass (2) - 1 freq
orcas (2) - 5 freq
greys (2) - 5 freq
gregs (2) - 1 freq
peas (2) - 52 freq
wreak (2) - 1 freq
breac (2) - 5 freq
rea (2) - 1 freq
parkas (2) - 1 freq
areas (0) - 93 freq
ares (1) - 3 freq
eres (2) - 1 freq
raas (2) - 10 freq
aers (2) - 2 freq
rees (2) - 6 freq
eras (2) - 2 freq
aires (2) - 1 freq
res (2) - 2 freq
reis (2) - 1 freq
ars (2) - 2 freq
oreos (2) - 1 freq
ayres (2) - 1 freq
aries (2) - 3 freq
eares (2) - 1 freq
arase (2) - 1 freq
arras (2) - 24 freq
area' (2) - 1 freq
preas (2) - 1 freq
area (2) - 165 freq
ream (3) - 4 freq
yarras (3) - 1 freq
apees (3) - 1 freq
arise (3) - 10 freq
arna (3) - 23 freq
SoundEx code - A620
arise - 10 freq
airs - 38 freq
areas - 93 freq
are-ach - 1 freq
argue - 49 freq
airk - 3 freq
aawhaurs - 1 freq
arse - 113 freq
argie - 17 freq
arras - 24 freq
araise - 1 freq
archway - 2 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 - 93 freq
arse - 113 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
AREAS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.183641 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 - 0.428447 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 - 0.027931 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 - 0.038621 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 - 0.001151 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.