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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to sister� in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
sisters' (3) - 1 freq
sisterly (3) - 1 freq
sisters (3) - 130 freq
sister (3) - 449 freq
sister's (3) - 36 freq
sesters (4) - 3 freq
sistur (4) - 2 freq
systers (4) - 1 freq
sisterhuid (4) - 1 freq
sisterheid (4) - 1 freq
sester (4) - 2 freq
mistery (4) - 1 freq
aister (4) - 2 freq
listeria (4) - 1 freq
fister (4) - 2 freq
misters (4) - 1 freq
yisterday (4) - 39 freq
sistem (4) - 1 freq
seisters (4) - 1 freq
listerine (4) - 1 freq
disters (4) - 1 freq
mister- (4) - 1 freq
sitter (4) - 1 freq
misterfu (4) - 1 freq
mister (4) - 84 freq
sisters' (6) - 1 freq
sister (6) - 449 freq
sister's (6) - 36 freq
sisters (6) - 130 freq
sisterly (6) - 1 freq
sester (7) - 2 freq
seisters (7) - 1 freq
sistir (7) - 1 freq
sisterheid (7) - 1 freq
sisterhood (7) - 1 freq
systers (7) - 1 freq
sesters (7) - 3 freq
sisterhuid (7) - 1 freq
sistur (7) - 2 freq
sooster (8) - 1 freq
gistered (8) - 1 freq
mister (8) - 84 freq
sisters-dey (8) - 1 freq
aistern (8) - 2 freq
sitter (8) - 1 freq
lister (8) - 6 freq
cistern (8) - 6 freq
misterfu (8) - 1 freq
fister (8) - 2 freq
listeria (8) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - S236
sister - 449 freq
sisters - 130 freq
sisters-they're - 1 freq
sister's - 36 freq
seceders - 1 freq
sisters-they - 3 freq
sooster - 1 freq
sesters - 3 freq
sisterly - 1 freq
sisterhuid - 1 freq
sigtrygg - 10 freq
siggtrygg - 2 freq
sigtrygg's - 2 freq
shewster - 2 freq
seisters - 1 freq
sister-in-law's - 1 freq
sister-inlaw - 1 freq
sister-injaw - 1 freq
sector - 101 freq
sectors - 13 freq
sector' - 2 freq
sectarian - 5 freq
sou'wester - 2 freq
sou-westerly - 1 freq
sisters-dey - 1 freq
sester - 2 freq
sistérs - 1 freq
sistér - 1 freq
seekitar - 1 freq
seekitars - 1 freq
sisters' - 1 freq
sectoral - 7 freq
sector's - 2 freq
sisterheid - 1 freq
sistur - 2 freq
schwestern - 1 freq
sauchtrie - 8 freq
succudrie - 1 freq
sagitarius - 2 freq
sister-in-law - 1 freq
sea-stair - 1 freq
sicht-reader - 1 freq
siggit-hertit - 1 freq
€™s-sister - 1 freq
systers - 1 freq
sistir - 1 freq
sexdrugsandaiberdeenroll - 1 freq
saswhodareswins - 1 freq
sisterknowbest - 1 freq
soustersport - 1 freq
sectarianism - 5 freq
sisterhood - 1 freq
succudrus - 1 freq
shyster - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SSTR
sister - 449 freq
sooster - 1 freq
sïstèr - 2 freq
sester - 2 freq
sistér - 1 freq
sistur - 2 freq
sea-stair - 1 freq
sistir - 1 freq
SISTER�
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.197328 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 - 0.359883 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 - 0.027998 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 - 0.038307 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 - 0.000878 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.