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Levenshtein Distance

Enter a word to find nearest neighbouring words, for example sonsie

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Similar words to features in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
features (0) - 45 freq
features' (1) - 1 freq
featurs (1) - 14 freq
fatures (1) - 1 freq
featured (1) - 9 freq
feature (1) - 43 freq
'features (1) - 1 freq
dentures (2) - 6 freq
ereatures (2) - 1 freq
feegures (2) - 1 freq
measures (2) - 16 freq
matures (2) - 2 freq
fixtures (2) - 9 freq
featurin (2) - 8 freq
statures (2) - 1 freq
futures (2) - 8 freq
textures (2) - 2 freq
natures (2) - 3 freq
lectures (2) - 8 freq
featur (2) - 5 freq
featurt (2) - 1 freq
ventures (2) - 2 freq
gestures (2) - 24 freq
creatures (2) - 29 freq
flares (3) - 10 freq
features (0) - 45 freq
fatures (1) - 1 freq
featurs (1) - 14 freq
futures (2) - 8 freq
'features (2) - 1 freq
feature (2) - 43 freq
featured (2) - 9 freq
features' (2) - 1 freq
natures (3) - 3 freq
futurs (3) - 2 freq
featur (3) - 5 freq
featurin (3) - 8 freq
featurt (3) - 1 freq
fixtures (3) - 9 freq
ereatures (3) - 1 freq
feegures (3) - 1 freq
matures (3) - 2 freq
future (4) - 244 freq
feathers (4) - 67 freq
beaters (4) - 2 freq
metres (4) - 15 freq
feexturs (4) - 4 freq
fates (4) - 4 freq
feelurs (4) - 1 freq
naturs (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - F362
faither's - 150 freq
fathers - 3 freq
feathers - 67 freq
futures - 8 freq
faithers - 85 freq
footers - 3 freq
fitwark - 3 freq
feathers-beasts - 1 freq
fedders - 21 freq
features - 45 freq
future's - 5 freq
feather's - 1 freq
fait-wrocht - 1 freq
features' - 1 freq
feethers - 1 freq
fithers - 4 freq
father's - 6 freq
fadder's - 7 freq
fadders - 3 freq
fadders' - 1 freq
feyther's - 2 freq
fedder's - 2 freq
fether's - 1 freq
faithers' - 5 freq
futurs - 2 freq
faider's - 1 freq
feeders - 1 freq
faethurs - 1 freq
faethers - 1 freq
faithership - 1 freq
featurs - 14 freq
fetterkinnes - 1 freq
fautors - 1 freq
futuristic - 2 freq
fatures - 1 freq
faiders - 1 freq
fitters - 3 freq
fedder-sarpint - 1 freq
faithur's - 1 freq
faithurs - 1 freq
faither’s - 6 freq
fatrsme - 1 freq
faitters - 1 freq
'features - 1 freq
fters - 1 freq
footyrustling - 2 freq
fathersday - 2 freq
federistas - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FTRS
futures - 8 freq
footers - 3 freq
fedders - 21 freq
features - 45 freq
future's - 5 freq
voters - 63 freq
features' - 1 freq
fadder's - 7 freq
fadders - 3 freq
fadders' - 1 freq
fedder's - 2 freq
futurs - 2 freq
faider's - 1 freq
feeders - 1 freq
featurs - 14 freq
fautors - 1 freq
votars - 4 freq
fatures - 1 freq
faiders - 1 freq
fitters - 3 freq
voters' - 1 freq
faitters - 1 freq
'features - 1 freq
fters - 1 freq
FEATURES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.223338 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 - 0.387306 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 - 0.030539 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 - 0.037713 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 - 0.000909 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.