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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to spectres in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
spectres (0) - 2 freq
spectre (1) - 4 freq
speires (2) - 1 freq
secures (2) - 1 freq
species (2) - 47 freq
spectral (2) - 3 freq
speckles (2) - 1 freq
spectrum (2) - 16 freq
specs (3) - 31 freq
spires (3) - 2 freq
spurtles (3) - 1 freq
lectures (3) - 8 freq
speeches (3) - 18 freq
spencers (3) - 3 freq
spcired (3) - 1 freq
sects (3) - 2 freq
sweeties (3) - 108 freq
scores (3) - 15 freq
speets (3) - 2 freq
spees (3) - 1 freq
spectaters (3) - 1 freq
secured (3) - 4 freq
specious (3) - 2 freq
speckled (3) - 3 freq
sectors (3) - 13 freq
spectres (0) - 2 freq
spectre (2) - 4 freq
spectrum (3) - 16 freq
spectral (3) - 3 freq
spectaters (4) - 1 freq
aspects (4) - 24 freq
spacers (4) - 2 freq
sectors (4) - 13 freq
pictures (4) - 79 freq
speires (4) - 1 freq
species (4) - 47 freq
secures (4) - 1 freq
speckles (4) - 1 freq
spatters (5) - 4 freq
pict'res (5) - 4 freq
spears (5) - 28 freq
spitters (5) - 2 freq
speirs (5) - 68 freq
speers (5) - 7 freq
spices (5) - 16 freq
sector's (5) - 2 freq
picters (5) - 44 freq
selectors (5) - 2 freq
specks (5) - 6 freq
spores (5) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - S123
supposed - 118 freq
s'past - 1 freq
sposed - 9 freq
saufest - 1 freq
sebastian - 10 freq
suffocating - 1 freq
scabbiest - 1 freq
substance - 14 freq
substation - 2 freq
substantial - 10 freq
spectacle - 7 freq
spookit - 2 freq
supposit - 4 freq
suffocatin - 4 freq
safest - 3 freq
spigot - 3 freq
sophistication - 5 freq
suppository - 1 freq
suppositry's - 1 freq
spectre - 4 freq
spectacles - 7 freq
spiced - 3 freq
specticul - 2 freq
supposidly - 1 freq
speyside - 4 freq
s'posed - 1 freq
sovict - 1 freq
substitute - 9 freq
spectators - 4 freq
spooked - 3 freq
supposedly - 16 freq
spiked - 6 freq
shap-bocht - 1 freq
s'post - 8 freq
subsidy-junkies - 2 freq
suppositly - 1 freq
spectrum - 16 freq
subsidy - 2 freq
subsidised - 4 freq
spaced - 5 freq
subside - 2 freq
sophisticate - 3 freq
substantiated - 1 freq
spectator's - 2 freq
spectator - 7 freq
suppost - 4 freq
suppostae've - 1 freq
spaghetti - 12 freq
space-time - 1 freq
spicket - 1 freq
spickets - 1 freq
subsidin - 1 freq
spectres - 2 freq
sophisticated - 6 freq
sheep-gaetit - 1 freq
spectral - 3 freq
sub-sheeds - 1 freq
substantious - 7 freq
substrata - 1 freq
spectacular - 8 freq
spectacularly - 3 freq
substitut - 1 freq
substaetion - 1 freq
sappiest - 2 freq
sufficed - 1 freq
sweepstake - 2 freq
supposition - 1 freq
spechtwise - 2 freq
spykit - 1 freq
sophistry - 1 freq
substantives - 1 freq
substrate - 2 freq
suffocations - 1 freq
substitutes - 3 freq
spiggte - 1 freq
spaegied - 1 freq
substantive - 2 freq
suffused - 1 freq
speaketh - 1 freq
subsidit - 1 freq
sibbest - 1 freq
sheep-staelin - 1 freq
suffocated - 1 freq
suffocate - 2 freq
substances - 6 freq
substanced - 1 freq
sheip'sheid - 1 freq
sebastopol - 1 freq
spikit's - 1 freq
suppoosed - 1 freq
speakit - 1 freq
spikkit - 1 freq
sebastiane - 1 freq
substantiously - 2 freq
subsidiar - 1 freq
spikit - 2 freq
subsidiarity - 1 freq
€˜spaghetti - 1 freq
sophisticatit - 1 freq
speckit - 2 freq
scapegoat - 1 freq
substitution - 1 freq
spickit - 1 freq
svjt - 1 freq
spooktacular - 1 freq
spaghettiisshit - 1 freq
scapegoats - 1 freq
swbyasite - 1 freq
sophistimicated - 1 freq
spectating - 1 freq
suffocation - 1 freq
speysidegeog - 2 freq
spagied - 2 freq
soupsteerirs - 1 freq
spaghetti-- - 1 freq
sbxttrt - 1 freq
sfcwitc - 3 freq
sjfawest - 2 freq
spectaters - 1 freq
shfzdebe - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SPKTRS
spectres - 2 freq
SPECTRES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.211302 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 - 0.377121 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 - 0.028028 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 - 0.000864 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.