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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to spices in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
spices (0) - 16 freq
spikes (1) - 15 freq
spicks (1) - 6 freq
spaces (1) - 19 freq
spies (1) - 29 freq
spiced (1) - 3 freq
slices (1) - 19 freq
spines (1) - 5 freq
spiles (1) - 1 freq
spires (1) - 2 freq
spice (1) - 25 freq
spirks (2) - 2 freq
slicks (2) - 1 freq
spicket (2) - 1 freq
spike (2) - 23 freq
sites (2) - 22 freq
sixes (2) - 2 freq
spewes (2) - 1 freq
spier (2) - 42 freq
spades (2) - 15 freq
spacer (2) - 2 freq
spirls (2) - 3 freq
spiled (2) - 7 freq
spicy (2) - 12 freq
spie (2) - 3 freq
spices (0) - 16 freq
spaces (1) - 19 freq
spires (2) - 2 freq
spice (2) - 25 freq
species (2) - 47 freq
spiles (2) - 1 freq
specs (2) - 31 freq
auspices (2) - 1 freq
spicks (2) - 6 freq
spines (2) - 5 freq
spies (2) - 29 freq
spikes (2) - 15 freq
slices (2) - 19 freq
spiced (2) - 3 freq
spiers (3) - 15 freq
paces (3) - 14 freq
specks (3) - 6 freq
spivs (3) - 2 freq
spakes (3) - 6 freq
spaes (3) - 4 freq
spits (3) - 24 freq
space- (3) - 1 freq
spees (3) - 1 freq
spores (3) - 2 freq
peces (3) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - S122
subject - 160 freq
subjects - 36 freq
spikes - 15 freq
subjugate - 3 freq
spices - 16 freq
subjeck - 82 freq
subjecks - 29 freq
spaces - 19 freq
spacious - 1 freq
species - 47 freq
savages - 8 freq
speeches - 18 freq
speugies - 1 freq
subjective - 5 freq
supposes - 2 freq
subjigatit - 1 freq
subsequent - 14 freq
spicy-smellin - 1 freq
subsequy - 1 freq
subjeckit - 5 freq
subjugation - 3 freq
subjectit - 3 freq
sheep-shaggers - 2 freq
spokesfolk - 1 freq
spakes - 6 freq
subsistence - 2 freq
spokesman - 2 freq
suffuses - 1 freq
speakes - 1 freq
spaesicht - 4 freq
subjek - 6 freq
subjeks - 2 freq
spaceships - 2 freq
spuggie's - 1 freq
subjectis - 3 freq
subjected - 4 freq
suffixes - 2 freq
subjec - 4 freq
spygiess - 1 freq
subjecs - 1 freq
spokesbodies - 1 freq
speakis - 1 freq
subject's - 1 freq
spaceship - 1 freq
spacecraft - 3 freq
speugie's - 1 freq
subsequently - 3 freq
sevices - 1 freq
spouses - 1 freq
subsequential - 1 freq
€˜subsequently - 1 freq
spekis - 1 freq
sepsis - 1 freq
sheepyshug - 2 freq
specious - 2 freq
spokespersons - 1 freq
shfjiz - 1 freq
svgeesus - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SPSS
spices - 16 freq
spaces - 19 freq
spacious - 1 freq
species - 47 freq
supposes - 2 freq
spouses - 1 freq
sepsis - 1 freq
specious - 2 freq
SPICES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.176029 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 - 0.350350 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 - 0.027636 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 - 0.037136 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 - 0.000858 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.