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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to choices in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
choices (0) - 28 freq
choises (1) - 1 freq
choice (1) - 157 freq
choice' (1) - 2 freq
chices (1) - 1 freq
chimes (2) - 8 freq
chicks (2) - 8 freq
choiss (2) - 2 freq
choie (2) - 1 freq
chyces (2) - 15 freq
chances (2) - 60 freq
chunces (2) - 8 freq
voices (2) - 113 freq
chories (2) - 1 freq
chines (2) - 7 freq
chopes (2) - 1 freq
chice (2) - 3 freq
coires (2) - 1 freq
chokes (2) - 4 freq
chotce (2) - 1 freq
chocs (2) - 1 freq
'voices (2) - 1 freq
chooses (2) - 7 freq
chores (2) - 9 freq
cheise (3) - 1 freq
choices (0) - 28 freq
chices (1) - 1 freq
choises (2) - 1 freq
choice (2) - 157 freq
chyces (2) - 15 freq
choice' (2) - 2 freq
chocs (2) - 1 freq
chopes (3) - 1 freq
chokes (3) - 4 freq
chice (3) - 3 freq
chooses (3) - 7 freq
chores (3) - 9 freq
chines (3) - 7 freq
chories (3) - 1 freq
chicks (3) - 8 freq
chimes (3) - 8 freq
chances (3) - 60 freq
choiss (3) - 2 freq
chunces (3) - 8 freq
chyres (4) - 1 freq
comics (4) - 20 freq
chases (4) - 7 freq
chips (4) - 118 freq
chic (4) - 10 freq
cheils (4) - 33 freq
SoundEx code - C220
chuckies - 25 freq
cakes - 54 freq
coaches - 9 freq
chices - 1 freq
causeys - 4 freq
écossais - 1 freq
cases - 56 freq
cassie's - 2 freq
chookies - 19 freq
coughs - 6 freq
chyces - 15 freq
cheques - 13 freq
causies - 6 freq
chicago - 4 freq
cages - 9 freq
coggies - 1 freq
choices - 28 freq
cuckoo's - 2 freq
chookie's - 10 freq
caises - 2 freq
cokes - 1 freq
chokes - 4 freq
cascais - 1 freq
casees - 3 freq
causes - 25 freq
chooses - 7 freq
ciggies - 2 freq
cheeses - 1 freq
cossack - 8 freq
chazza's - 1 freq
cozzies - 1 freq
cookies - 10 freq
ca'ses - 1 freq
chases - 7 freq
choises - 1 freq
casses - 1 freq
'chookies - 1 freq
'chook-chook - 1 freq
chasies - 1 freq
cowshus - 5 freq
chookies' - 1 freq
cassies - 6 freq
caases - 3 freq
chassis - 4 freq
chuckie's - 1 freq
chiesis - 1 freq
chicawgie - 2 freq
coo-cake - 1 freq
cochise - 5 freq
caesses - 2 freq
causays - 1 freq
coach's - 1 freq
€˜chiesis - 1 freq
chukkies - 2 freq
coke's - 1 freq
chyges - 2 freq
cokkis - 1 freq
cakies - 1 freq
couscous - 2 freq
coshes - 1 freq
couches - 2 freq
Écossaise - 1 freq
choukies - 2 freq
cosies - 1 freq
cocoaooze - 1 freq
cascasg - 1 freq
coigach - 1 freq
chachacha - 1 freq
czechs - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - XSS
chices - 1 freq
chyces - 15 freq
choices - 28 freq
chooses - 7 freq
cheeses - 1 freq
chazza's - 1 freq
chases - 7 freq
choises - 1 freq
chasies - 1 freq
chassis - 4 freq
chiesis - 1 freq
€˜chiesis - 1 freq
CHOICES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.180249 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 - 0.334349 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 - 0.027844 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 - 0.036894 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 - 0.000929 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.