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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to queerest in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
queerest (0) - 6 freq
queereye (2) - 1 freq
querent (2) - 1 freq
quietest (2) - 1 freq
wheerest (2) - 2 freq
queerer (2) - 2 freq
greenest (3) - 2 freq
weeest (3) - 2 freq
wee-est (3) - 23 freq
sweetest (3) - 8 freq
queets (3) - 6 freq
queet (3) - 2 freq
quickest (3) - 9 freq
nearest (3) - 64 freq
erest (3) - 10 freq
steevest (3) - 1 freq
queer (3) - 146 freq
queeried (3) - 3 freq
queries (3) - 1 freq
ferest (3) - 1 freq
weetest (3) - 1 freq
ferrest (3) - 1 freq
quest (3) - 18 freq
surest (3) - 1 freq
purest (3) - 4 freq
queerest (0) - 6 freq
quietest (3) - 1 freq
querent (3) - 1 freq
queart (4) - 3 freq
quares (4) - 1 freq
purest (4) - 4 freq
ferest (4) - 1 freq
quires (4) - 1 freq
quest (4) - 18 freq
surest (4) - 1 freq
merest (4) - 6 freq
everest (4) - 1 freq
quaert (4) - 1 freq
puirest (4) - 3 freq
unrest (4) - 6 freq
peeriest (4) - 14 freq
queries (4) - 1 freq
dearest (4) - 19 freq
feerst (4) - 1 freq
queereye (4) - 1 freq
queerer (4) - 2 freq
nearest (4) - 64 freq
erest (4) - 10 freq
wheerest (4) - 2 freq
quairs (5) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - Q623
queerest - 6 freq
queeriosities - 1 freq
quarestick - 1 freq
quarecuttie - 1 freq
qaurrzxudb - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KRST
grazed - 5 freq
cursed - 43 freq
caressed - 2 freq
grossit - 2 freq
croasst - 3 freq
corset - 2 freq
curst - 2 freq
crossit - 7 freq
crosst - 12 freq
curiosity - 34 freq
crust - 18 freq
crest - 7 freq
crusty - 5 freq
crossed - 100 freq
crusade - 4 freq
crossd - 1 freq
queerest - 6 freq
curset - 1 freq
gairsty - 2 freq
curiositie - 1 freq
groustie - 2 freq
cruist - 1 freq
grayssed - 1 freq
cressida - 1 freq
kirsty - 161 freq
curiousity - 2 freq
grist - 36 freq
cristo - 1 freq
croassed - 7 freq
greased - 3 freq
graced - 4 freq
grassed - 5 freq
keerstee - 2 freq
kirst - 6 freq
cross-eed - 1 freq
cruised - 1 freq
curse'd - 2 freq
keeriosity - 1 freq
cursit - 4 freq
cresseid - 2 freq
coorsed - 1 freq
greast - 1 freq
curriest - 1 freq
creosote - 3 freq
cross't - 1 freq
corssed - 2 freq
ker-side - 1 freq
grosset - 2 freq
crazed - 3 freq
€œkirsty - 1 freq
€œcrossed - 1 freq
creased - 2 freq
gorsedh - 1 freq
coursed - 1 freq
“kirst - 1 freq
grozet - 1 freq
krista - 4 freq
QUEEREST
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.518668 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 - 0.973602 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 - 0.029740 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 - 0.100860 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 - 0.000946 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.