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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to classics in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
classics (0) - 17 freq
classic (1) - 47 freq
classicus (1) - 1 freq
clessics (1) - 1 freq
plastics (2) - 1 freq
clessic (2) - 5 freq
classes (2) - 52 freq
cassies (2) - 6 freq
'lassies (2) - 3 freq
lassies (2) - 308 freq
chassis (2) - 4 freq
class's (2) - 2 freq
elastics (2) - 1 freq
classical (2) - 28 freq
classico' (2) - 1 freq
cfclassics (2) - 2 freq
chasies (3) - 1 freq
glaisscs (3) - 1 freq
elastic (3) - 16 freq
causies (3) - 6 freq
elastic's (3) - 1 freq
classes' (3) - 1 freq
plastic (3) - 127 freq
cassidy (3) - 4 freq
casses (3) - 1 freq
classics (0) - 17 freq
clessics (1) - 1 freq
classicus (1) - 1 freq
classic (2) - 47 freq
class's (3) - 2 freq
classical (3) - 28 freq
classico' (3) - 1 freq
classes (3) - 52 freq
clessic (3) - 5 freq
clesses (4) - 54 freq
closses (4) - 1 freq
clessical (4) - 6 freq
cfclassics (4) - 2 freq
classifies (4) - 1 freq
clossach (4) - 1 freq
glaisscs (4) - 1 freq
lassies (4) - 308 freq
'lassies (4) - 3 freq
cassies (4) - 6 freq
plastics (4) - 1 freq
elastics (4) - 1 freq
chassis (4) - 4 freq
blissins (5) - 22 freq
claases (5) - 7 freq
clauses (5) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - C422
claggiest - 2 freq
clish-clash - 1 freq
clesses - 54 freq
classical - 28 freq
closes - 27 freq
classics - 17 freq
colleagues - 25 freq
classes - 52 freq
collogues - 15 freq
classic - 47 freq
cleuchs - 5 freq
closest - 22 freq
cleughs - 3 freq
colossus - 4 freq
collages - 1 freq
cliques - 2 freq
classico' - 1 freq
clichés - 3 freq
clessic - 5 freq
calgacus - 3 freq
clashes - 2 freq
clicky's - 9 freq
clossach - 1 freq
colleges - 4 freq
college's - 2 freq
clessical - 6 freq
closses - 1 freq
collouges - 3 freq
coal-kist - 1 freq
colleague's - 2 freq
claases - 7 freq
clossest - 3 freq
clauses - 4 freq
cailleach's - 1 freq
cailleachs - 1 freq
classes' - 1 freq
celsius - 13 freq
classicus - 1 freq
€˜classic - 2 freq
€˜classical - 1 freq
classically-styled - 1 freq
€˜clessical - 1 freq
calcichew - 1 freq
cloggies - 2 freq
clessics - 1 freq
close-set - 1 freq
calcagus - 1 freq
clessist - 1 freq
clashcityclarky - 66 freq
chelseahaig - 1 freq
classicbritcom - 1 freq
calkaycody - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KLSKS
glesca's - 5 freq
classics - 17 freq
glasgow's - 5 freq
glisks - 10 freq
glaisscs - 1 freq
glasgae's - 1 freq
glesga's - 2 freq
clusks - 1 freq
classicus - 1 freq
clessics - 1 freq
glasgows - 1 freq
qlzx - 1 freq
CLASSICS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.202474 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 - 0.377991 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 - 0.028183 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 - 0.039124 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 - 0.000889 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.