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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to plaister in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
plaister (0) - 20 freq
plaistert (1) - 4 freq
plister (1) - 1 freq
plaster (1) - 14 freq
plaisters (1) - 2 freq
glaister (1) - 2 freq
slaister (1) - 8 freq
plaises (2) - 3 freq
labster (2) - 6 freq
planter (2) - 6 freq
laiter (2) - 4 freq
plaited (2) - 3 freq
painter (2) - 9 freq
blaster (2) - 3 freq
waister (2) - 1 freq
haister (2) - 2 freq
cloister (2) - 2 freq
claitter (2) - 3 freq
glister (2) - 8 freq
plater (2) - 1 freq
plainer (2) - 3 freq
plester (2) - 2 freq
lister (2) - 6 freq
maister (2) - 216 freq
alister (2) - 1 freq
plaister (0) - 20 freq
plaster (1) - 14 freq
plister (1) - 1 freq
slaister (2) - 8 freq
glaister (2) - 2 freq
plester (2) - 2 freq
plaistert (2) - 4 freq
plaisters (2) - 2 freq
plitter (3) - 1 freq
palooster (3) - 2 freq
allister (3) - 1 freq
plaistered (3) - 7 freq
padster (3) - 1 freq
plaisterin (3) - 3 freq
slaistery (3) - 4 freq
platter (3) - 11 freq
plasters (3) - 1 freq
leister (3) - 2 freq
blister (3) - 3 freq
clister (3) - 1 freq
plastert (3) - 1 freq
plaisir (3) - 3 freq
pleiter (3) - 1 freq
alister (3) - 1 freq
planter (3) - 6 freq
SoundEx code - P423
plastic - 127 freq
pleased - 206 freq
plaistered - 7 freq
pluckt - 3 freq
pals'd - 1 freq
plashed - 1 freq
plichtit - 3 freq
polisht - 5 freq
plicht - 12 freq
placate - 5 freq
plaister - 20 freq
plastered - 12 freq
philistine - 4 freq
pleast - 6 freq
plugged - 7 freq
plasticky - 4 freq
plasticine - 6 freq
polished - 39 freq
placed - 55 freq
plestert - 2 freq
please-there's - 1 freq
ploys-stertin - 1 freq
plaisters - 2 freq
pulsated - 2 freq
plasters - 1 freq
plashit - 1 freq
playstation - 5 freq
polystyrene - 2 freq
plaqued' - 1 freq
plaster - 14 freq
plight - 11 freq
pillaged - 2 freq
plaesed - 26 freq
plucked - 3 freq
pleasit - 5 freq
pleisit - 2 freq
plister - 1 freq
plastik - 1 freq
plaised - 37 freq
pleesed - 1 freq
plagued - 5 freq
poleaxt - 1 freq
plectrums - 1 freq
plectrum - 3 freq
pulsatin - 3 freq
palestine - 4 freq
plestic - 4 freq
plaisterit - 1 freq
placid - 3 freq
policed - 2 freq
plastert - 1 freq
plessed - 1 freq
plaisterin - 3 freq
plaisterers - 1 freq
plist - 1 freq
placte - 1 freq
pluckit - 3 freq
plaistert - 4 freq
philistines - 3 freq
plesterboard - 2 freq
play-ectin - 1 freq
polist - 4 freq
palestyne - 1 freq
pluggid - 1 freq
pullzit - 1 freq
plojied - 1 freq
poleeshed - 1 freq
plastacine - 1 freq
plichtin - 1 freq
pluck'd - 1 freq
pleised - 4 freq
plistered - 1 freq
plaes't - 1 freq
plester - 2 freq
polecat - 1 freq
policht - 1 freq
ploocut - 1 freq
plasteik - 1 freq
ploughed - 4 freq
playsed - 1 freq
palestrina - 2 freq
plasterwork - 1 freq
polka-dot - 1 freq
plased - 1 freq
poailshed - 1 freq
plaisit - 1 freq
placit - 1 freq
poalished - 1 freq
polscotcollege - 1 freq
polscotdogs - 2 freq
playstv - 1 freq
palooster - 2 freq
pleasedontbeseasick - 1 freq
palestinepmo - 1 freq
polscotrpu - 3 freq
plastics - 1 freq
poleaxed - 1 freq
placket - 1 freq
plasterboard - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - PLSTR
plaister - 20 freq
plaster - 14 freq
plister - 1 freq
plester - 2 freq
palooster - 2 freq
PLAISTER
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.224946 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 - 0.413366 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 - 0.028225 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 - 0.037184 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 - 0.000936 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.