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Similar words to plasters in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
plasters (0) - 1 freq
planters (1) - 4 freq
plaisters (1) - 2 freq
plastert (1) - 1 freq
plaster (1) - 14 freq
plastics (2) - 1 freq
platter (2) - 11 freq
laters (2) - 12 freq
paiters (2) - 1 freq
blaster (2) - 3 freq
plantes (2) - 1 freq
patters (2) - 3 freq
ulsters (2) - 1 freq
slaiters (2) - 1 freq
plester (2) - 2 freq
plouters (2) - 1 freq
planter (2) - 6 freq
coasters (2) - 4 freq
tasters (2) - 1 freq
pousters (2) - 1 freq
masters (2) - 10 freq
wasters (2) - 6 freq
flusters (2) - 1 freq
casters (2) - 2 freq
plaistert (2) - 4 freq
plasters (0) - 1 freq
plaisters (1) - 2 freq
plastert (2) - 1 freq
plaster (2) - 14 freq
planters (2) - 4 freq
pousters (3) - 1 freq
plooters (3) - 2 freq
plestert (3) - 2 freq
plastered (3) - 12 freq
plaistert (3) - 4 freq
blisters (3) - 9 freq
plouters (3) - 1 freq
pasturs (3) - 1 freq
flusters (3) - 1 freq
plowters (3) - 1 freq
glisters (3) - 4 freq
possters (3) - 1 freq
plaister (3) - 20 freq
plester (3) - 2 freq
plister (3) - 1 freq
posters (3) - 30 freq
ulsters (3) - 1 freq
clusters (3) - 5 freq
plastics (3) - 1 freq
plates (4) - 58 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 - PLSTRS
plaisters - 2 freq
plasters - 1 freq
PLASTERS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.217522 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 - 0.392253 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 - 0.032423 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 - 0.042434 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 - 0.001086 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.