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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to scaffer in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
scaffer (0) - 1 freq
scaffed (1) - 1 freq
spaffer (1) - 1 freq
sclaffer (1) - 1 freq
caffee (2) - 2 freq
scaffs (2) - 1 freq
scarper (2) - 2 freq
oaffer (2) - 2 freq
scamper (2) - 1 freq
scaff (2) - 2 freq
flaffer (2) - 3 freq
scatter (2) - 14 freq
saffen (2) - 1 freq
affer (2) - 2 freq
saifer (2) - 3 freq
scanner (2) - 1 freq
caffe (2) - 1 freq
suiffer (2) - 1 freq
seffer (2) - 1 freq
safter (2) - 10 freq
safer (2) - 18 freq
scalder (2) - 2 freq
scaiter (2) - 1 freq
sniffer (2) - 3 freq
suffer (2) - 58 freq
scaffer (0) - 1 freq
spaffer (2) - 1 freq
sclaffer (2) - 1 freq
scaffed (2) - 1 freq
scaffies (3) - 5 freq
sniffer (3) - 3 freq
scaffie (3) - 9 freq
seffer (3) - 1 freq
scuffed (3) - 13 freq
suffer (3) - 58 freq
suiffer (3) - 1 freq
scaff (3) - 2 freq
scoffed (3) - 11 freq
siffer (3) - 3 freq
scaffs (3) - 1 freq
saufer (4) - 2 freq
snaffler (4) - 1 freq
staffed (4) - 1 freq
scuff (4) - 4 freq
scarier (4) - 1 freq
scoffin (4) - 4 freq
scoff (4) - 12 freq
scuffin (4) - 2 freq
scuffy (4) - 1 freq
scufft (4) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - S160
spier - 42 freq
supper - 173 freq
siberia - 5 freq
shipraw - 1 freq
spur - 5 freq
shiver - 35 freq
s'faur - 1 freq
speir - 214 freq
spray - 42 freq
spare - 100 freq
spear - 28 freq
super - 37 freq
safer - 18 freq
'speir - 1 freq
skipper - 51 freq
shaver - 2 freq
swipper - 8 freq
'spare' - 2 freq
sipper - 6 freq
severe - 15 freq
spar - 14 freq
sparrae - 3 freq
sober - 31 freq
suffer - 58 freq
savoury - 1 freq
speer - 21 freq
syver - 4 freq
sabre - 2 freq
saviour - 14 freq
savour - 18 freq
saifer - 3 freq
spair - 1 freq
sub-par - 1 freq
spry - 3 freq
scaffer - 1 freq
sper - 1 freq
siver - 2 freq
sparra - 11 freq
sphere - 14 freq
sweeper - 3 freq
safari - 2 freq
sever - 3 freq
'safari - 3 freq
'sober - 1 freq
spree - 12 freq
siffer - 3 freq
'sphere - 1 freq
sphere' - 1 freq
savory - 1 freq
saufer - 2 freq
seffer - 1 freq
scabra - 1 freq
spire - 5 freq
sober' - 1 freq
sapphira - 1 freq
skyipper - 2 freq
sapphire - 1 freq
siever - 2 freq
suiffer - 1 freq
suffre - 1 freq
spoor - 2 freq
€˜spray - 1 freq
swaver - 1 freq
sauviour - 1 freq
sparrow - 5 freq
soapbar - 1 freq
€œsparra - 1 freq
soepboer - 1 freq
€˜spier - 1 freq
saufier - 1 freq
sover - 1 freq
speir' - 1 freq
€˜suffer - 1 freq
shopper - 3 freq
€œspare - 1 freq
€œspeir - 1 freq
sapr - 1 freq
soubry - 1 freq
siferry - 4 freq
sppry - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SKFR
scaffer - 1 freq
SCAFFER
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.457539 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 - 0.720033 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 - 0.027634 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 - 0.085525 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 - 0.000962 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.