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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to beetles in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
beetles (0) - 2 freq
beatles (1) - 1 freq
beetle (1) - 4 freq
teetles (1) - 1 freq
besties (2) - 1 freq
nettles (2) - 23 freq
teetle (2) - 10 freq
battles (2) - 26 freq
belles (2) - 1 freq
needles (2) - 17 freq
weesles (2) - 1 freq
leetle (2) - 2 freq
leetlest (2) - 1 freq
feeties (2) - 5 freq
feefles (2) - 1 freq
settles (2) - 11 freq
beeteen (2) - 1 freq
ettles (2) - 80 freq
beeches (2) - 1 freq
beeces (2) - 1 freq
reevles (2) - 1 freq
beetle't (2) - 1 freq
bewties (2) - 1 freq
ceeties (2) - 7 freq
tentles (2) - 2 freq
beetles (0) - 2 freq
beatles (1) - 1 freq
boatles (2) - 6 freq
teetles (2) - 1 freq
beetle (2) - 4 freq
btls (3) - 1 freq
ettles (3) - 80 freq
bottles (3) - 115 freq
belles (3) - 1 freq
beet's (3) - 2 freq
battles (3) - 26 freq
beets (3) - 49 freq
betimes (4) - 16 freq
bites (4) - 23 freq
beuts (4) - 6 freq
bellies (4) - 22 freq
boatle (4) - 12 freq
boatled (4) - 1 freq
beaters (4) - 2 freq
boattles (4) - 7 freq
butes (4) - 2 freq
booties (4) - 1 freq
biles (4) - 14 freq
betymes (4) - 6 freq
bootleg (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - B342
buitless - 1 freq
bottles - 115 freq
boattles - 7 freq
battles - 26 freq
battle's - 3 freq
battlestone - 3 freq
battleships - 2 freq
bad-lookin - 3 freq
bottle-green - 2 freq
bdilecsx - 1 freq
bet-lick - 1 freq
bottle's - 5 freq
bad-lookin' - 1 freq
boat-holes - 1 freq
boot-legged - 1 freq
beetles - 2 freq
boatels - 1 freq
beadle's - 1 freq
bottils - 1 freq
battailyies - 1 freq
battlesang - 1 freq
bothwell's - 25 freq
bottoals - 1 freq
bowdy-leggit - 1 freq
bedlicht - 1 freq
battleship - 3 freq
bowdie-leggit - 1 freq
body-like - 1 freq
battels - 1 freq
battle-axe - 1 freq
bootleg - 1 freq
boatles - 6 freq
bad-luikin - 1 freq
beatles - 1 freq
€œbootless - 1 freq
betelgeuse - 1 freq
battilgrunds - 1 freq
battleaxe - 1 freq
bedlaes - 1 freq
bottlesogreeb - 1 freq
btls - 1 freq
bottleÂ’s - 1 freq
boattils - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - BTLS
buitless - 1 freq
bottles - 115 freq
boattles - 7 freq
battles - 26 freq
battle's - 3 freq
bottle's - 5 freq
beetles - 2 freq
boatels - 1 freq
beadle's - 1 freq
bottils - 1 freq
bottoals - 1 freq
battels - 1 freq
boatles - 6 freq
beatles - 1 freq
€œbootless - 1 freq
bedlaes - 1 freq
btls - 1 freq
bottleÂ’s - 1 freq
boattils - 1 freq
BEETLES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.268830 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 - 0.400579 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 - 0.030111 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 - 0.038883 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 - 0.000887 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.