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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to observers in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
observers (0) - 1 freq
observer (1) - 3 freq
observes (1) - 3 freq
observe (2) - 14 freq
observed (2) - 11 freq
servers (2) - 1 freq
obsorber (3) - 1 freq
deserters (3) - 2 freq
serves (3) - 26 freq
beavers (3) - 2 freq
onsetters (3) - 1 freq
observit (3) - 2 freq
reserves (3) - 4 freq
jobseekers (3) - 2 freq
absenters (3) - 1 freq
server (3) - 2 freq
observin (3) - 8 freq
observing (3) - 1 freq
deserves (3) - 33 freq
obsessed (4) - 10 freq
pervert (4) - 1 freq
sarves (4) - 2 freq
otherweys (4) - 1 freq
breakers (4) - 2 freq
reserve (4) - 8 freq
observers (0) - 1 freq
observes (2) - 3 freq
observer (2) - 3 freq
servers (3) - 1 freq
observed (4) - 11 freq
observe (4) - 14 freq
observin (5) - 8 freq
server (5) - 2 freq
deserves (5) - 33 freq
sairvers (5) - 1 freq
absenters (5) - 1 freq
reservoirs (5) - 2 freq
observing (5) - 1 freq
serves (5) - 26 freq
beavers (5) - 2 freq
obsorber (5) - 1 freq
observit (5) - 2 freq
reserves (5) - 4 freq
deserters (5) - 2 freq
barriers (6) - 6 freq
disorders (6) - 1 freq
shivers (6) - 16 freq
obsairved (6) - 6 freq
burkers (6) - 2 freq
obscures (6) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - O126
officers - 48 freq
officer - 56 freq
observation - 12 freq
offisher - 19 freq
'offisher - 1 freq
observit - 2 freq
observed - 11 freq
officer's - 2 freq
oafficer - 2 freq
oabzervant - 1 freq
obscurin - 4 freq
observance - 2 freq
observe - 14 freq
observatory - 3 freq
obsorber - 1 freq
obscured - 2 freq
ofcoorse - 1 freq
obscure - 7 freq
observin - 8 freq
offshore - 5 freq
offysher - 5 freq
offyshers - 2 freq
'officer - 1 freq
observing - 1 freq
observer - 3 freq
offysers - 1 freq
obsairvin - 1 freq
obsairved - 6 freq
offishers - 1 freq
ofhcer - 1 freq
offaicer - 3 freq
offaicers - 1 freq
obsairt - 19 freq
obsair - 11 freq
obsairs - 1 freq
obscur' - 1 freq
obscurantism - 1 freq
obsairvit - 1 freq
observes - 3 freq
obscures - 1 freq
observations - 4 freq
observers - 1 freq
obscuret - 2 freq
offycer - 1 freq
oubqrmy - 1 freq
ovuzrndjzs - 1 freq
officer' - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - OBSRFRS
observers - 1 freq
OBSERVERS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.217486 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 - 0.389620 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 - 0.027982 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 - 0.042516 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.