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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to rickles in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
rickles (0) - 4 freq
rickled (1) - 1 freq
prickles (1) - 2 freq
trickles (1) - 4 freq
tickles (1) - 5 freq
pickles (1) - 2 freq
rinkles (1) - 1 freq
fickles (1) - 1 freq
ruckles (1) - 1 freq
rickle (1) - 31 freq
huckles (2) - 1 freq
rickets (2) - 1 freq
mickle (2) - 13 freq
hackles (2) - 3 freq
sickies (2) - 2 freq
wrinkles (2) - 4 freq
rickly (2) - 1 freq
hickled (2) - 1 freq
rackless (2) - 1 freq
ricks (2) - 1 freq
kuckles (2) - 1 freq
pirckles (2) - 1 freq
rochles (2) - 1 freq
tickle (2) - 13 freq
pickle (2) - 30 freq
rickles (0) - 4 freq
ruckles (1) - 1 freq
fickles (2) - 1 freq
prickles (2) - 2 freq
rickled (2) - 1 freq
rinkles (2) - 1 freq
rickle (2) - 31 freq
pickles (2) - 2 freq
trickles (2) - 4 freq
tickles (2) - 5 freq
runkles (3) - 1 freq
crackles (3) - 2 freq
puckles (3) - 14 freq
buckles (3) - 2 freq
reckless (3) - 2 freq
rockies (3) - 1 freq
cackles (3) - 1 freq
tackles (3) - 3 freq
cockles (3) - 6 freq
keckles (3) - 2 freq
ricklie (3) - 10 freq
ruckle (3) - 2 freq
freckles (3) - 19 freq
rankles (3) - 2 freq
muckles (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - R242
rough-lookin - 1 freq
recalcitrate - 1 freq
recalls - 5 freq
rackless - 1 freq
rickles - 4 freq
reek-less - 1 freq
recollection - 2 freq
risqué-leukin - 1 freq
rochlookin - 1 freq
rascals - 1 freq
russell's - 3 freq
resiles - 1 freq
reckless - 2 freq
rachel's - 2 freq
roch-lik - 1 freq
recklessness - 2 freq
ruckles - 1 freq
recleckit - 1 freq
ragglish-like - 1 freq
ragglish - 3 freq
recollections - 1 freq
reclessified - 1 freq
recalcitrant - 2 freq
recoils - 1 freq
reishils - 1 freq
rochles - 1 freq
reekless - 1 freq
roxywells - 3 freq
regulus - 2 freq
rossalcroft - 1 freq
rjhhlckmda - 1 freq
rosscolquhoun - 2 freq
russellexolta - 1 freq
reclusive - 1 freq
rglktwyp - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - RKLS
recalls - 5 freq
rackless - 1 freq
rickles - 4 freq
reek-less - 1 freq
wrigleys - 1 freq
reckless - 2 freq
wrigley's - 1 freq
ruckles - 1 freq
wriggles - 1 freq
recoils - 1 freq
reekless - 1 freq
regulus - 2 freq
RICKLES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.183405 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 - 0.373440 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 - 0.027529 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 - 0.038362 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 - 0.000917 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.