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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to focus in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
focus (0) - 115 freq
focks (1) - 7 freq
locus (1) - 3 freq
'focus (1) - 1 freq
focused (2) - 27 freq
fuscus (2) - 2 freq
foods (2) - 6 freq
ious (2) - 1 freq
focusin (2) - 9 freq
fonns (2) - 1 freq
fouls (2) - 2 freq
fou (2) - 318 freq
lous (2) - 1 freq
fogs (2) - 4 freq
wous (2) - 3 freq
forms (2) - 113 freq
yous (2) - 179 freq
foos (2) - 10 freq
faus (2) - 2 freq
frocks (2) - 17 freq
unfocus (2) - 1 freq
fechs (2) - 1 freq
facts (2) - 46 freq
fecks (2) - 3 freq
forums (2) - 4 freq
focus (0) - 115 freq
facs (2) - 1 freq
faces (2) - 230 freq
focks (2) - 7 freq
'focus (2) - 1 freq
locus (2) - 3 freq
fock (3) - 288 freq
fones (3) - 1 freq
foes (3) - 10 freq
fc's (3) - 1 freq
foras (3) - 3 freq
nicus (3) - 1 freq
forces (3) - 42 freq
fotos (3) - 1 freq
focuses (3) - 2 freq
lucus (3) - 1 freq
cous (3) - 1 freq
foxes (3) - 9 freq
fours (3) - 2 freq
fools (3) - 12 freq
founs (3) - 9 freq
fcuk (3) - 2 freq
fores (3) - 1 freq
fects (3) - 5 freq
foetus (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - F220
faces - 230 freq
fuchsia - 1 freq
fishes - 17 freq
fashious - 20 freq
fixes - 3 freq
'focus - 1 freq
focus - 115 freq
fawkes - 7 freq
foggies' - 1 freq
fucksake - 1 freq
foxes - 9 freq
fogeys - 1 freq
fowkies - 21 freq
fowkie's - 5 freq
fissoag's - 1 freq
facees - 1 freq
fush's - 1 freq
fizzog - 27 freq
fcuk - 2 freq
faxes - 1 freq
fakes - 2 freq
fizzogs - 6 freq
fechs - 1 freq
fuscus - 2 freq
fishies - 4 freq
face's - 1 freq
fissog - 1 freq
feechies - 1 freq
faissis - 1 freq
fæsis - 1 freq
fykes - 2 freq
fashes - 5 freq
foxes' - 1 freq
feshes - 1 freq
facies - 1 freq
fishies' - 1 freq
fasces - 1 freq
fowkweys - 1 freq
fashous - 1 freq
feekies - 2 freq
foggies - 2 freq
fesses - 1 freq
fizog - 6 freq
fogies - 1 freq
fisses - 1 freq
faachs - 1 freq
fashiuss - 1 freq
fuses - 1 freq
fugazi - 1 freq
fzyji - 1 freq
fisog - 1 freq
fgwzkgjk - 1 freq
fwsuji - 1 freq
fuksek - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FKS
fox - 73 freq
fowk's - 49 freq
faiks - 1 freq
fowks - 97 freq
fuck's - 10 freq
fags - 64 freq
'fuck's - 1 freq
'focus - 1 freq
focus - 115 freq
'fegs - 4 freq
fegs - 40 freq
fawkes - 7 freq
fx - 4 freq
fix - 70 freq
foggies' - 1 freq
fogs - 4 freq
fowks' - 9 freq
faks - 4 freq
figs - 16 freq
veyg's - 1 freq
vicous - 1 freq
fowkies - 21 freq
fowkie's - 5 freq
viccy - 5 freq
vacuous - 2 freq
faux - 4 freq
fucks - 11 freq
vegas - 1 freq
veggies - 9 freq
facks - 15 freq
fakes - 2 freq
fïgs - 3 freq
vex - 6 freq
fok's - 1 freq
fc's - 1 freq
fax - 9 freq
fokk's - 4 freq
focks' - 3 freq
fokks - 1 freq
fykes - 2 freq
vaig's - 1 freq
foxy - 6 freq
fecks - 3 freq
facs - 1 freq
€˜fox - 1 freq
feekies - 2 freq
foggies - 2 freq
fowks- - 1 freq
vieux - 2 freq
focks - 7 freq
foax - 1 freq
feggs - 1 freq
fux - 1 freq
fowkÂ’s - 2 freq
phx - 1 freq
wghx - 1 freq
vx - 5 freq
fugazi - 1 freq
vix - 1 freq
fogsw - 1 freq
phwx - 1 freq
vexh - 1 freq
fqs - 1 freq
vgos - 1 freq
vics - 1 freq
vqs - 1 freq
phxu - 1 freq
vcz - 1 freq
wvix - 1 freq
fgs - 31 freq
feegs - 1 freq
ghqce - 1 freq
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Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.196444 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 - 0.343632 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 - 0.027826 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 - 0.036925 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 - 0.000875 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.