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Levenshtein Distance

Enter a word to find nearest neighbouring words, for example sonsie

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Similar words to possibilities in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
possibilities (0) - 17 freq
possibeilities (1) - 3 freq
possiebilities (1) - 1 freq
poassibilites (2) - 1 freq
possibeilitie (2) - 1 freq
possibeelities (2) - 3 freq
possibility (3) - 19 freq
possiebility (4) - 1 freq
disabilities (4) - 5 freq
possibeility (4) - 1 freq
sensibeilities (4) - 1 freq
probabilities (4) - 1 freq
hostielities (4) - 1 freq
nobilities (4) - 1 freq
possibles (4) - 1 freq
responsibilities (4) - 9 freq
responsibilitie (5) - 1 freq
abilities (5) - 6 freq
posseebility (5) - 1 freq
responsibeilities (5) - 1 freq
capabilities (5) - 4 freq
tonsillitis (5) - 2 freq
personalities (5) - 3 freq
possible (5) - 179 freq
possibil (5) - 7 freq
possibilities (0) - 17 freq
possiebilities (1) - 1 freq
possibeilities (1) - 3 freq
possibeelities (2) - 3 freq
poassibilites (2) - 1 freq
possibeilitie (3) - 1 freq
possibility (4) - 19 freq
possibles (5) - 1 freq
possibeility (5) - 1 freq
possiebility (5) - 1 freq
possibeelity (6) - 4 freq
disabilities (6) - 5 freq
posseebility (6) - 1 freq
probabilities (6) - 1 freq
sensibeilities (6) - 1 freq
personalities (7) - 3 freq
possibil (7) - 7 freq
disabeilities (7) - 1 freq
possible (7) - 179 freq
hostielities (7) - 1 freq
responsibilities (7) - 9 freq
nobilities (7) - 1 freq
abilities (8) - 6 freq
responsibeilities (8) - 1 freq
possieble (8) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - P214
possibeilitie - 1 freq
possibly - 56 freq
possible - 179 freq
peaceful - 22 freq
possibility - 19 freq
possibilities - 17 freq
poassibly - 1 freq
paeceable - 4 freq
pick-black - 1 freq
peacefully - 4 freq
peacably - 1 freq
paesable - 1 freq
paecable - 1 freq
paeceably - 2 freq
possibil - 7 freq
possiebility - 1 freq
possieble - 1 freq
paceably - 1 freq
peaceable - 2 freq
possiboal - 1 freq
peacefullie - 1 freq
possibeelities - 3 freq
possibeilities - 3 freq
paecefil - 1 freq
possibeelity - 4 freq
possibeility - 1 freq
possiebilities - 1 freq
peacefu-like - 1 freq
posseebility - 1 freq
passively - 2 freq
poassibilites - 1 freq
pasabil - 1 freq
poasible - 1 freq
pweizgkbld - 1 freq
pjbell - 1 freq
psflaps - 8 freq
possibles - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - PSBLTS
possibilities - 17 freq
possibeelities - 3 freq
possibeilities - 3 freq
possiebilities - 1 freq
poassibilites - 1 freq
POSSIBILITIES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.318634 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 - 0.606539 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 - 0.027697 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 - 0.070026 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 - 0.000933 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.