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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to cleaves in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
cleaves (0) - 1 freq
cleeves (1) - 1 freq
leaves (1) - 208 freq
cleaved (1) - 2 freq
sleaves (1) - 1 freq
cleaver (1) - 4 freq
cleave (1) - 3 freq
clever (2) - 69 freq
eaves (2) - 2 freq
creases (2) - 1 freq
clearest (2) - 4 freq
'leave (2) - 10 freq
cleane (2) - 1 freq
cleans (2) - 9 freq
pleases (2) - 9 freq
leaven (2) - 1 freq
leives (2) - 3 freq
leeves (2) - 19 freq
clesses (2) - 54 freq
cleavit (2) - 1 freq
weaves (2) - 9 freq
slaves (2) - 18 freq
craves (2) - 2 freq
cleanest (2) - 1 freq
laves (2) - 3 freq
cleaves (0) - 1 freq
cleeves (1) - 1 freq
cleave (2) - 3 freq
cleaver (2) - 4 freq
cloves (2) - 4 freq
sleaves (2) - 1 freq
leaves (2) - 208 freq
cleaved (2) - 2 freq
sleeves (3) - 27 freq
clave (3) - 1 freq
laves (3) - 3 freq
claver (3) - 14 freq
claes (3) - 582 freq
loaves (3) - 5 freq
claases (3) - 7 freq
clears (3) - 19 freq
clavers (3) - 15 freq
cleavin (3) - 1 freq
craves (3) - 2 freq
caves (3) - 17 freq
sclaves (3) - 2 freq
calves (3) - 5 freq
slaves (3) - 18 freq
clever (3) - 69 freq
leives (3) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - C412
cliffs - 30 freq
cluifs - 1 freq
cleavage - 8 freq
cloves - 4 freq
claps - 5 freq
clapshot - 5 freq
clubs - 104 freq
clips - 9 freq
clubhoose - 1 freq
collapsin - 6 freq
calfies - 4 freq
clubcaird - 1 freq
collapsed - 18 freq
clip--clop - 1 freq
clubby's - 3 freq
calves - 5 freq
clbuck - 1 freq
cleaves - 1 freq
call-box - 1 freq
collapse - 16 freq
collapses - 1 freq
club's - 5 freq
clipe-clash - 1 freq
clipes - 1 freq
culfs - 2 freq
cleopas - 2 freq
clepsydra-like - 1 freq
collapsan - 1 freq
coalfish - 1 freq
cullybackey - 3 freq
clipshears - 1 freq
coal-backets - 1 freq
calfes - 1 freq
coalie-bag - 1 freq
calfskin - 1 freq
calfie's - 1 freq
calf's - 2 freq
calf-kintra - 2 freq
cliff's - 1 freq
collie-foxin - 1 freq
cleeves - 1 freq
calypso - 1 freq
€˜clubs - 1 freq
collapsing - 1 freq
clefs - 1 freq
clype-clash - 1 freq
collops - 3 freq
ceolbeg - 1 freq
celebs - 4 freq
clvzmej - 1 freq
cullybecky - 1 freq
collieback - 1 freq
celebjuice - 1 freq
colliebuckie - 1 freq
culbokster - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KLFS
cliffs - 30 freq
gloves - 48 freq
cluifs - 1 freq
cloves - 4 freq
gliffs - 6 freq
calfies - 4 freq
cleughs - 3 freq
gluv's - 1 freq
calves - 5 freq
cleaves - 1 freq
culfs - 2 freq
glivs - 13 freq
gluives - 3 freq
calfes - 1 freq
calfie's - 1 freq
calf's - 2 freq
cliff's - 1 freq
cleeves - 1 freq
clefs - 1 freq
glifs - 1 freq
gluvs - 2 freq
CLEAVES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.242355 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 - 0.380674 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 - 0.027766 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 - 0.050368 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 - 0.001251 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.