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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to layed in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
layed (0) - 16 freq
payed (1) - 4 freq
sayed (1) - 1135 freq
laced (1) - 6 freq
layen (1) - 2 freq
played (1) - 256 freq
layer (1) - 15 freq
laked (1) - 1 freq
laded (1) - 1 freq
laed (1) - 23 freq
slayed (1) - 2 freq
flayed (1) - 2 freq
gamed (2) - 1 freq
claaed (2) - 2 freq
dared (2) - 11 freq
led (2) - 247 freq
saed (2) - 183 freq
aaned (2) - 1 freq
lanes (2) - 11 freq
taxed (2) - 4 freq
laer (2) - 1 freq
baked (2) - 28 freq
cawed (2) - 263 freq
paved (2) - 4 freq
ramed (2) - 2 freq
layed (0) - 16 freq
laed (1) - 23 freq
loued (2) - 14 freq
lade (2) - 26 freq
ayld (2) - 1 freq
leed (2) - 25 freq
laid (2) - 270 freq
laud (2) - 5 freq
looed (2) - 8 freq
laad (2) - 29 freq
leeed (2) - 1 freq
lied (2) - 15 freq
lued (2) - 16 freq
loed (2) - 4 freq
lad (2) - 563 freq
ladye (2) - 5 freq
slayed (2) - 2 freq
layer (2) - 15 freq
flayed (2) - 2 freq
led (2) - 247 freq
played (2) - 256 freq
sayed (2) - 1135 freq
payed (2) - 4 freq
layen (2) - 2 freq
laced (2) - 6 freq
SoundEx code - L300
let - 1368 freq
late - 496 freq
laid - 270 freq
leid - 1536 freq
laddie - 577 freq
lood - 154 freq
lot - 800 freq
lid - 71 freq
lead - 193 freq
lad - 563 freq
lit - 283 freq
led - 247 freq
lat - 555 freq
leet - 81 freq
leddie - 28 freq
loat - 42 freq
load - 134 freq
'let - 15 freq
loud - 175 freq
laith - 25 freq
looed - 8 freq
lowdie - 6 freq
leith - 200 freq
layoot - 6 freq
loe'd - 2 freq
laed - 23 freq
luit - 4 freq
lou'd - 1 freq
'lit - 2 freq
loot - 9 freq
'lat - 14 freq
lied - 15 freq
lee'ed - 1 freq
'laid - 1 freq
litt - 2 freq
lauddie - 4 freq
lt - 5 freq
loued - 14 freq
laud - 5 freq
lee'd - 1 freq
'laddie' - 3 freq
leith' - 1 freq
lade - 26 freq
loath - 4 freq
lo'ed - 6 freq
lut - 59 freq
leed - 25 freq
leid' - 5 freq
lady - 163 freq
lyth - 1 freq
laete - 1 freq
lea't - 2 freq
lued - 16 freq
layt - 1 freq
laad - 29 freq
lait - 4 freq
laada - 2 freq
layed - 16 freq
lad' - 3 freq
lydo - 2 freq
loddie - 5 freq
ledy - 1 freq
lod - 2 freq
'lot - 1 freq
lottie - 2 freq
lithe - 5 freq
late' - 2 freq
leddy - 24 freq
lowed - 3 freq
lawd - 1 freq
lawdie - 4 freq
lythe - 4 freq
lawdie' - 1 freq
lotto - 6 freq
loadae - 1 freq
loathe - 2 freq
loatae - 3 freq
lotae - 1 freq
loado - 1 freq
loady - 1 freq
lty - 1 freq
loed - 4 freq
lethe - 2 freq
lotta - 14 freq
lateh - 1 freq
lloyd - 1 freq
loada - 3 freq
°let - 1 freq
lït - 2 freq
lite - 3 freq
lay-oot - 2 freq
lady' - 2 freq
lieth - 2 freq
lode - 2 freq
'laddie - 1 freq
löt - 6 freq
laet - 9 freq
layout - 1 freq
'ld' - 1 freq
l''d - 1 freq
lede - 9 freq
'late - 1 freq
loott - 1 freq
leit - 15 freq
lathie - 1 freq
lidd - 2 freq
lithy - 1 freq
ledd - 7 freq
loohit - 1 freq
læt - 1 freq
lith - 1 freq
lido - 2 freq
latte - 5 freq
liath - 1 freq
lute - 8 freq
luath - 16 freq
lota - 1 freq
laidy - 1 freq
luaidh - 1 freq
ltd - 8 freq
'lad - 1 freq
lea'd - 1 freq
latt - 3 freq
ld - 3 freq
lydia - 1 freq
€˜let - 10 freq
lawtie - 1 freq
ladye - 5 freq
€˜lat - 3 freq
laddy - 1 freq
€œlat - 13 freq
littie - 1 freq
leat - 1 freq
lotty - 2 freq
leda - 2 freq
leidd - 1 freq
€œlet - 10 freq
€˜late - 1 freq
lude - 1 freq
lyte - 1 freq
lyde - 1 freq
late- - 1 freq
laude - 1 freq
€˜leid - 2 freq
liet - 4 freq
€œlead - 1 freq
€˜lad - 1 freq
lote - 1 freq
€”let - 1 freq
€™let - 1 freq
leeed - 1 freq
ludo - 1 freq
‘lad - 1 freq
lliot - 1 freq
'lead' - 1 freq
loadda - 1 freq
liht - 2 freq
ltw - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - LYT
layoot - 6 freq
layed - 16 freq
layout - 1 freq
LAYED
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.287697 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 - 0.576133 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 - 0.027640 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 - 0.037063 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 - 0.001012 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.