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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to faults in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
faults (0) - 3 freq
fauls (1) - 2 freq
fauts (1) - 27 freq
vaults (1) - 2 freq
faulds (1) - 21 freq
faulty (1) - 2 freq
baults (1) - 3 freq
fault (1) - 74 freq
gauls (2) - 2 freq
fuits (2) - 2 freq
facts (2) - 46 freq
malts (2) - 3 freq
hault (2) - 18 freq
farts (2) - 5 freq
gaunts (2) - 1 freq
saul's (2) - 6 freq
fauns (2) - 1 freq
pauls (2) - 1 freq
fauss (2) - 14 freq
fouls (2) - 2 freq
faun's (2) - 3 freq
saalts (2) - 2 freq
fants (2) - 1 freq
fauld (2) - 37 freq
failte (2) - 2 freq
faults (0) - 3 freq
faulty (2) - 2 freq
fault (2) - 74 freq
faulds (2) - 21 freq
baults (2) - 3 freq
vaults (2) - 2 freq
fauls (2) - 2 freq
fauts (2) - 27 freq
cults (3) - 6 freq
fulls (3) - 2 freq
fruits (3) - 18 freq
falls (3) - 15 freq
halts (3) - 1 freq
fats (3) - 2 freq
faints (3) - 1 freq
foulis (3) - 1 freq
failt (3) - 7 freq
faalds (3) - 3 freq
faals (3) - 1 freq
faels (3) - 1 freq
fult (3) - 2 freq
walts (3) - 1 freq
floats (3) - 18 freq
flits (3) - 8 freq
flets (3) - 7 freq
SoundEx code - F432
fields - 148 freq
faulds - 21 freq
fillets - 3 freq
flats - 23 freq
folds - 8 freq
floats - 18 freq
floodgates - 2 freq
flutes - 7 freq
fleetchin - 5 freq
fleetched - 3 freq
flatties - 1 freq
feldspar - 1 freq
faults - 3 freq
flee-oots - 1 freq
fail-dyke - 4 freq
fail-dykes - 3 freq
floods - 13 freq
fleeds - 1 freq
floatct - 1 freq
float's - 1 freq
fledglin - 3 freq
flets - 7 freq
fleets - 3 freq
flotsam - 3 freq
flits - 8 freq
fletcher - 5 freq
flit's - 1 freq
flodds - 1 freq
fuilitch - 1 freq
faalds - 3 freq
flat-capped - 1 freq
flatchin - 1 freq
flotts - 1 freq
fleadhcheoil - 1 freq
fauld-stuil - 1 freq
fields' - 1 freq
fluids - 8 freq
fleetch't - 1 freq
flood-dyke - 1 freq
flytes - 7 freq
fleetcht - 1 freq
flatched - 1 freq
fleitchin - 2 freq
fleitch - 2 freq
fleitches - 2 freq
flids - 1 freq
fauldie's - 1 freq
flat-sided - 1 freq
feilds - 4 freq
fleitchit - 1 freq
flet-quate - 1 freq
flattest - 1 freq
felt's - 1 freq
fledged - 3 freq
flatches - 2 freq
fleetch - 3 freq
fleitcht - 1 freq
fell-thocht - 1 freq
felties - 1 freq
fledgit - 1 freq
fldoukvhrz - 1 freq
fledge - 1 freq
fledglins - 1 freq
fletchers - 1 freq
fldjnqgehy - 1 freq
fauldhouse - 4 freq
fauldhoose - 4 freq
fauldhousefc - 1 freq
fauldhouseutd - 1 freq
feelds - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FLTS
fields - 148 freq
faulds - 21 freq
fillets - 3 freq
flats - 23 freq
folds - 8 freq
floats - 18 freq
flutes - 7 freq
volts - 3 freq
flatties - 1 freq
faults - 3 freq
flee-oots - 1 freq
vaults - 2 freq
violet's - 19 freq
floods - 13 freq
fleeds - 1 freq
float's - 1 freq
violets - 16 freq
flets - 7 freq
fleets - 3 freq
flits - 8 freq
flit's - 1 freq
flodds - 1 freq
violets' - 1 freq
'violets - 1 freq
faalds - 3 freq
flotts - 1 freq
fields' - 1 freq
fluids - 8 freq
flytes - 7 freq
vaults' - 1 freq
flids - 1 freq
fauldie's - 1 freq
feilds - 4 freq
felt's - 1 freq
felties - 1 freq
vilots - 1 freq
feelds - 1 freq
FAULTS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.259733 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 - 0.572332 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 - 0.077926 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 - 0.037849 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 - 0.000914 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.