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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to kisses in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
kisses (0) - 29 freq
misses (1) - 16 freq
fisses (1) - 1 freq
hisses (1) - 4 freq
yisses (1) - 2 freq
kissed (1) - 66 freq
uisses (1) - 2 freq
kissies (1) - 1 freq
pisses (1) - 4 freq
wisses (1) - 4 freq
kisser (1) - 5 freq
kyisses (1) - 1 freq
busses (2) - 18 freq
kirsen (2) - 2 freq
bisset (2) - 4 freq
sinses (2) - 2 freq
missis (2) - 2 freq
missel (2) - 1 freq
mosses (2) - 6 freq
kisted (2) - 1 freq
casses (2) - 1 freq
kiosks (2) - 1 freq
fishes (2) - 17 freq
pishes (2) - 2 freq
plisses (2) - 4 freq
kisses (0) - 29 freq
kissies (1) - 1 freq
kyisses (1) - 1 freq
wisses (2) - 4 freq
kisser (2) - 5 freq
hisses (2) - 4 freq
pisses (2) - 4 freq
misses (2) - 16 freq
fisses (2) - 1 freq
kissed (2) - 66 freq
yisses (2) - 2 freq
uisses (2) - 2 freq
pusses (3) - 6 freq
desses (3) - 1 freq
kishies (3) - 4 freq
missus (3) - 128 freq
kists (3) - 31 freq
dosses (3) - 2 freq
wissis (3) - 1 freq
bosses (3) - 9 freq
fesses (3) - 1 freq
klosses (3) - 1 freq
masses (3) - 13 freq
uissis (3) - 1 freq
tosses (3) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - K220
kisses - 29 freq
keechs - 1 freq
keysies - 1 freq
kakes - 1 freq
kishies - 4 freq
kyisses - 1 freq
kissies - 1 freq
kaces - 1 freq
kiujsyewxa - 1 freq
kechs - 1 freq
kuzyk - 1 freq
kessock - 1 freq
kukukg - 1 freq
kickass - 1 freq
kizziewiz - 2 freq
khqxhsi - 1 freq
kaikos - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KSS
kisses - 29 freq
causeys - 4 freq
écossais - 1 freq
cases - 56 freq
cassie's - 2 freq
causies - 6 freq
caises - 2 freq
casees - 3 freq
causes - 25 freq
gozos - 1 freq
guises - 2 freq
gazes - 2 freq
cozzies - 1 freq
guces - 1 freq
ca'ses - 1 freq
keysies - 1 freq
casses - 1 freq
guesses - 6 freq
gases - 6 freq
cassies - 6 freq
caases - 3 freq
caesses - 2 freq
kissies - 1 freq
causays - 1 freq
gaseous - 7 freq
kaces - 1 freq
€˜guesses - 1 freq
goose's - 1 freq
cses - 2 freq
Écossaise - 1 freq
quizzes - 4 freq
cosies - 1 freq
czazo - 1 freq
csez - 1 freq
qzs - 1 freq
hqwzs - 1 freq
wxis - 1 freq
kzhz - 1 freq
KISSES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.177153 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 - 0.355803 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 - 0.059494 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 - 0.037983 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.