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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to laziness in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
laziness (0) - 1 freq
haliness (2) - 2 freq
leafiness (2) - 1 freq
laziest (2) - 1 freq
shadiness (3) - 1 freq
paine's (3) - 2 freq
packness (3) - 1 freq
sautness (3) - 1 freq
hardness (3) - 1 freq
ladies' (3) - 4 freq
iiiness (3) - 1 freq
nosiness (3) - 1 freq
vastness (3) - 1 freq
business (3) - 295 freq
fainness (3) - 3 freq
halieness (3) - 1 freq
lines (3) - 222 freq
aines (3) - 2 freq
cantiness (3) - 2 freq
vaines (3) - 1 freq
calmness (3) - 3 freq
elaine's (3) - 1 freq
blaetness (3) - 1 freq
holiness (3) - 1 freq
lairners (3) - 72 freq
laziness (0) - 1 freq
leafiness (3) - 1 freq
buzness (4) - 7 freq
likness (4) - 1 freq
lyness (4) - 1 freq
wooziness (4) - 1 freq
aaldness (4) - 1 freq
lioness (4) - 2 freq
haliness (4) - 2 freq
laziest (4) - 1 freq
loodness (4) - 1 freq
likeness (4) - 4 freq
dizziness (5) - 3 freq
tidiness (5) - 1 freq
lairless (5) - 1 freq
lanies (5) - 1 freq
oagliness (5) - 1 freq
line's (5) - 2 freq
lazin (5) - 4 freq
lazybeds (5) - 3 freq
sameness (5) - 1 freq
liners (5) - 2 freq
lanes (5) - 11 freq
guiness (5) - 2 freq
wareness (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - L252
lessons - 145 freq
lookin-giess - 1 freq
lochnagar - 6 freq
looking - 162 freq
lishence - 1 freq
licence - 29 freq
likenesses - 3 freq
lochan's - 3 freq
lauching - 1 freq
luikin-gless - 1 freq
laughin-greetin - 1 freq
likeness - 4 freq
lagoons - 1 freq
likness - 1 freq
leukin-gless - 1 freq
lock-ins - 1 freq
lochans - 8 freq
lesmahagow - 8 freq
leggins - 3 freq
lesson's - 1 freq
lissance - 1 freq
losing - 14 freq
laughing - 21 freq
lacking - 2 freq
leaking - 4 freq
legions - 9 freq
laughingly - 2 freq
looking-glass - 1 freq
locking - 3 freq
licensed - 4 freq
license - 12 freq
lookingless - 1 freq
lowsing - 2 freq
luking - 8 freq
lichen-covert - 2 freq
lysanias - 2 freq
liking - 20 freq
'looking - 1 freq
lugnasad - 1 freq
leishence - 4 freq
lessens - 1 freq
'laughing - 1 freq
leggings - 3 freq
lukking - 1 freq
licencin' - 2 freq
licenced - 1 freq
lookan-giess - 1 freq
lashins - 3 freq
lozens - 1 freq
lowsings - 3 freq
leeshence - 1 freq
likeneess - 1 freq
laichmaist - 1 freq
lochan-side - 1 freq
lick-an-a-spit - 1 freq
likins - 1 freq
leishenced - 1 freq
lyknessis - 1 freq
lissens - 2 freq
lagamachie - 1 freq
lee-science - 3 freq
licences - 2 freq
laughin-stock - 2 freq
licensin - 1 freq
lozenge - 1 freq
lyceum's - 1 freq
laziness - 1 freq
leukkin-gless - 1 freq
licking - 3 freq
lashing - 1 freq
lochwinnoch - 1 freq
lousumness - 1 freq
leukin-glesses - 1 freq
lauchin-stock - 1 freq
lukin-gless - 1 freq
lossing - 1 freq
leeshins - 1 freq
lisamacrae - 1 freq
lagging - 2 freq
lsimscor - 2 freq
logans - 1 freq
louisenicol - 152 freq
legoing - 1 freq
lysencgs - 1 freq
lisaamakeup - 2 freq
ljkyenge - 1 freq
luiking - 1 freq
lewismccann - 1 freq
laughingginge - 1 freq
lhsenglishdept - 1 freq
lwzunz - 1 freq
lessuns - 1 freq
loganjimt - 1 freq
laggans - 1 freq
laughmakerdnd - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - LSNS
lessons - 145 freq
licence - 29 freq
lesson's - 1 freq
lissance - 1 freq
license - 12 freq
lysanias - 2 freq
lessens - 1 freq
lozens - 1 freq
lissens - 2 freq
lee-science - 3 freq
laziness - 1 freq
lwzunz - 1 freq
lessuns - 1 freq
LAZINESS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.205992 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 - 0.416095 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 - 0.034377 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 - 0.045343 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 - 0.000938 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.