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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to cleave in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
cleave (0) - 3 freq
cleane (1) - 1 freq
cleaved (1) - 2 freq
clave (1) - 1 freq
leave (1) - 462 freq
'leave (1) - 10 freq
cleaver (1) - 4 freq
cleaves (1) - 1 freq
steave (2) - 1 freq
clive (2) - 9 freq
clase (2) - 8 freq
clear (2) - 492 freq
crave (2) - 13 freq
cleat (2) - 1 freq
clere (2) - 3 freq
create (2) - 51 freq
clearer (2) - 26 freq
sleaves (2) - 1 freq
cave (2) - 79 freq
neave (2) - 3 freq
cleant (2) - 4 freq
leve (2) - 2 freq
cease (2) - 10 freq
sleaze (2) - 2 freq
clese (2) - 1 freq
cleave (0) - 3 freq
clave (1) - 1 freq
cleaves (2) - 1 freq
clive (2) - 9 freq
clava (2) - 2 freq
cleaver (2) - 4 freq
clove (2) - 1 freq
'leave (2) - 10 freq
cleane (2) - 1 freq
cleaved (2) - 2 freq
leave (2) - 462 freq
clene (3) - 3 freq
cleavage (3) - 8 freq
cleary (3) - 1 freq
claie (3) - 1 freq
chave (3) - 3 freq
sleeve (3) - 46 freq
slave (3) - 41 freq
lave (3) - 227 freq
leive (3) - 25 freq
leav (3) - 1 freq
aleeve (3) - 1 freq
cleavit (3) - 1 freq
claase (3) - 1 freq
aleive (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - C410
clap - 56 freq
club - 262 freq
clip - 36 freq
clype - 46 freq
cliff - 28 freq
clep - 1 freq
clive - 9 freq
clippie - 2 freq
chilpy - 2 freq
clipe - 9 freq
caulf - 2 freq
clubby - 1 freq
clubbie - 1 freq
clappie - 3 freq
calf - 12 freq
clova - 2 freq
celeb - 3 freq
calfie - 8 freq
'club' - 1 freq
clapp - 1 freq
clippie' - 1 freq
cullivoe - 1 freq
cliv - 1 freq
€˜caleb - 1 freq
clave - 1 freq
clove - 1 freq
clup - 1 freq
club' - 1 freq
cleave - 3 freq
cleppy - 1 freq
collop - 1 freq
clava - 2 freq
cliffy - 1 freq
'clap-a - 1 freq
clap-a - 1 freq
colab - 1 freq
cclop - 1 freq
collab - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KLF
gliff - 35 freq
cliff - 28 freq
qualify - 6 freq
golf - 63 freq
golfy - 2 freq
clive - 9 freq
gluffy - 2 freq
caulf - 2 freq
glove - 11 freq
goliev - 1 freq
gulf - 9 freq
calf - 12 freq
clova - 2 freq
calfie - 8 freq
gluve - 1 freq
gluff - 19 freq
qualiefy - 1 freq
cullivoe - 1 freq
gliv - 1 freq
cliv - 1 freq
qualifee - 2 freq
clave - 1 freq
clove - 1 freq
guelph - 1 freq
cleave - 3 freq
guelfo - 1 freq
€œgolf - 1 freq
glif - 1 freq
gliffie - 1 freq
clava - 2 freq
qlf - 1 freq
cliffy - 1 freq
cullough - 1 freq
qlv - 1 freq
kayleigh - 2 freq
CLEAVE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.182415 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 - 0.366918 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 - 0.027801 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 - 0.041988 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 - 0.001075 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.