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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to coshes in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
coshes (0) - 1 freq
cosies (1) - 1 freq
cashed (2) - 3 freq
bashes (2) - 1 freq
dyshes (2) - 1 freq
cobles (2) - 2 freq
bosses (2) - 9 freq
doses (2) - 9 freq
crosses (2) - 11 freq
rushes (2) - 20 freq
wushes (2) - 1 freq
cases (2) - 56 freq
dosses (2) - 2 freq
dashes (2) - 1 freq
comes (2) - 962 freq
cosset (2) - 1 freq
cosmos (2) - 3 freq
coaches (2) - 9 freq
coster (2) - 1 freq
costies (2) - 8 freq
mosses (2) - 6 freq
gushes (2) - 5 freq
costs (2) - 46 freq
tosses (2) - 3 freq
lashes (2) - 7 freq
coshes (0) - 1 freq
cosies (2) - 1 freq
crashes (3) - 7 freq
sashes (3) - 3 freq
rashes (3) - 30 freq
pishes (3) - 2 freq
cooshen (3) - 1 freq
wishes (3) - 39 freq
couches (3) - 2 freq
pushes (3) - 8 freq
feshes (3) - 1 freq
dishes (3) - 78 freq
casees (3) - 3 freq
casses (3) - 1 freq
ashes (3) - 20 freq
cowshus (3) - 5 freq
fishes (3) - 17 freq
bushes (3) - 41 freq
creshes (3) - 1 freq
cses (3) - 2 freq
fashes (3) - 5 freq
clashes (3) - 2 freq
washes (3) - 11 freq
crushes (3) - 1 freq
cashe (3) - 1 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 - KXS
coaches - 9 freq
catches - 34 freq
keechs - 1 freq
quaichs - 4 freq
catche's - 1 freq
gushes - 5 freq
cautious - 8 freq
cowshus - 5 freq
kishies - 4 freq
cochise - 5 freq
cowtious - 1 freq
coach's - 1 freq
coshes - 1 freq
couches - 2 freq
kechs - 1 freq
COSHES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.292553 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 - 0.399027 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 - 0.029045 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 - 0.039398 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 - 0.000967 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.