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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to craves in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
craves (0) - 2 freq
raves (1) - 5 freq
braves (1) - 3 freq
crave (1) - 13 freq
craved (1) - 3 freq
cranes (1) - 7 freq
crates (1) - 6 freq
cravens (1) - 1 freq
caves (1) - 17 freq
graves (1) - 31 freq
caved (2) - 9 freq
crags (2) - 7 freq
cloves (2) - 4 freq
faves (2) - 3 freq
craks (2) - 1 freq
grades (2) - 10 freq
rages (2) - 9 freq
bravest (2) - 5 freq
travels (2) - 10 freq
drames (2) - 7 freq
eaves (2) - 2 freq
gravel (2) - 9 freq
calves (2) - 5 freq
daves (2) - 2 freq
cleaves (2) - 1 freq
craves (0) - 2 freq
cravens (2) - 1 freq
cruives (2) - 1 freq
graves (2) - 31 freq
crates (2) - 6 freq
curves (2) - 10 freq
caves (2) - 17 freq
raves (2) - 5 freq
cranes (2) - 7 freq
braves (2) - 3 freq
craved (2) - 3 freq
crave (2) - 13 freq
cracs (3) - 1 freq
troves (3) - 1 freq
crans (3) - 1 freq
creases (3) - 1 freq
droves (3) - 10 freq
craiks (3) - 2 freq
roves (3) - 1 freq
cravin (3) - 5 freq
craws (3) - 60 freq
ravis (3) - 1 freq
craibs (3) - 1 freq
crises (3) - 1 freq
crass (3) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - C612
craw-pickers - 1 freq
corbies - 20 freq
cribs - 1 freq
crops - 19 freq
carapace - 1 freq
curves - 10 freq
creeps - 16 freq
corbie's - 4 freq
cairves - 2 freq
creepie-chair - 1 freq
craps - 16 freq
crabs - 7 freq
cribbage - 2 freq
corpach - 1 freq
corpses - 10 freq
corpse - 29 freq
corbies' - 1 freq
corps - 13 freq
crevice - 2 freq
craibs - 1 freq
craib's - 4 freq
craves - 2 freq
caravaggio - 1 freq
curvaceous - 2 freq
crevasses - 1 freq
crab's - 1 freq
craw-bogil - 1 freq
corpus - 22 freq
chirps - 2 freq
creepiestools - 1 freq
crevices - 2 freq
crubs - 2 freq
cherrypickin' - 1 freq
craw-bogle - 1 freq
corp-cauld - 1 freq
crib-stane - 2 freq
'craps' - 1 freq
corp's - 1 freq
carpickles - 1 freq
cervisiam - 1 freq
cherubusco - 1 freq
corrie-fistit-gun - 1 freq
cheerback - 1 freq
creepie-crawlin - 2 freq
crips - 1 freq
curfews - 2 freq
cheirie-pykes - 1 freq
carfax - 1 freq
choirbeuk - 3 freq
crevasse - 1 freq
cruives - 1 freq
cherubs - 1 freq
corvusprodo - 2 freq
crabbies - 1 freq
creepyjim - 1 freq
corbeaux - 1 freq
cuervos - 1 freq
crieffys - 1 freq
corpuschristi - 2 freq
corbieclook - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KRFS
graves - 31 freq
curves - 10 freq
cairves - 2 freq
greves - 1 freq
grievous - 7 freq
grieves - 2 freq
griefs - 2 freq
crevice - 2 freq
greev's - 1 freq
craves - 2 freq
groves - 2 freq
grief's - 2 freq
graphs - 6 freq
grievious - 1 freq
gravy's - 6 freq
graffs - 2 freq
grooves - 1 freq
graufs - 1 freq
curfews - 2 freq
crevasse - 1 freq
craighouse - 1 freq
cruives - 1 freq
krvzi - 1 freq
cuervos - 1 freq
crieffys - 1 freq
CRAVES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.241397 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 - 0.449179 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 - 0.036808 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 - 0.048780 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 - 0.001120 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.