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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to leaps in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
leaps (0) - 7 freq
leap (1) - 17 freq
leans (1) - 17 freq
laps (1) - 7 freq
lears (1) - 2 freq
leads (1) - 45 freq
leapt (1) - 11 freq
lea's (1) - 2 freq
heaps (1) - 13 freq
leams (1) - 8 freq
leas (1) - 14 freq
leafs (1) - 43 freq
leaks (1) - 1 freq
lepps (1) - 1 freq
leps (1) - 1 freq
reaps (1) - 11 freq
bleeps (2) - 1 freq
lets (2) - 74 freq
peaks (2) - 13 freq
shaps (2) - 6 freq
jeans (2) - 55 freq
leah (2) - 1 freq
seals (2) - 22 freq
loops (2) - 4 freq
gleams (2) - 2 freq
leaps (0) - 7 freq
laps (1) - 7 freq
leps (1) - 1 freq
lepps (2) - 1 freq
reaps (2) - 11 freq
lups (2) - 1 freq
yelps (2) - 5 freq
lips (2) - 198 freq
lapse (2) - 2 freq
loups (2) - 6 freq
leaks (2) - 1 freq
loops (2) - 4 freq
lapis (2) - 1 freq
leads (2) - 45 freq
leans (2) - 17 freq
leafs (2) - 43 freq
leap (2) - 17 freq
lears (2) - 2 freq
lea's (2) - 2 freq
leas (2) - 14 freq
leams (2) - 8 freq
heaps (2) - 13 freq
leapt (2) - 11 freq
deips (3) - 1 freq
laams (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - L120
lives - 241 freq
leafs - 43 freq
lips - 198 freq
leaves - 208 freq
loofs - 6 freq
life's - 64 freq
laifs - 2 freq
luves - 16 freq
leeves - 19 freq
love's - 12 freq
loves - 68 freq
loups - 6 freq
laps - 7 freq
lifes - 48 freq
lowps - 29 freq
laves - 3 freq
leaps - 7 freq
luve's - 5 freq
lavvies - 10 freq
loabbies - 5 freq
lobby's - 1 freq
lyfe's - 4 freq
lyfis - 1 freq
levies - 1 freq
lobbies - 3 freq
luve''s - 1 freq
lapis - 1 freq
lobs - 2 freq
lyves - 1 freq
lavish - 2 freq
leps - 1 freq
luvs - 11 freq
loops - 4 freq
lippies - 1 freq
lawvies - 1 freq
loafs - 9 freq
'life's - 1 freq
loofache - 1 freq
lyf's - 1 freq
laeves - 16 freq
labs - 3 freq
laefs - 2 freq
leave's - 1 freq
löfs - 1 freq
lups - 1 freq
lawfowk - 1 freq
libs - 1 freq
lævs - 1 freq
luifs - 5 freq
lifcs - 1 freq
leefs - 1 freq
leifs - 3 freq
loufs - 1 freq
luipkie - 1 freq
leives - 3 freq
lovies - 1 freq
€˜lips - 2 freq
livvy's - 3 freq
liv's - 1 freq
lavvy's - 1 freq
lubeck - 2 freq
loaves - 5 freq
lapse - 2 freq
lives' - 1 freq
lhfic - 1 freq
llfox - 1 freq
lepps - 1 freq
lifeÂ’s - 2 freq
labs' - 1 freq
lbc - 1 freq
lbk - 1 freq
lvsz - 1 freq
lepucy - 1 freq
leaves' - 1 freq
lvg - 1 freq
lfc - 4 freq
lufc - 2 freq
livvys - 1 freq
lbx - 1 freq
lvfeze - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - LPS
lips - 198 freq
loups - 6 freq
laps - 7 freq
lowps - 29 freq
leaps - 7 freq
lapis - 1 freq
leps - 1 freq
loops - 4 freq
lippies - 1 freq
lups - 1 freq
€˜lips - 2 freq
lapse - 2 freq
lepps - 1 freq
lepucy - 1 freq
LEAPS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.320389 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 - 0.367864 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 - 0.027397 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 - 0.037077 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 - 0.000921 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.