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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to verse in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
verse (0) - 134 freq
versy (1) - 1 freq
veyse (1) - 1 freq
verie (1) - 23 freq
merse (1) - 4 freq
averse (1) - 6 freq
verve (1) - 2 freq
versa (1) - 4 freq
vers (1) - 1 freq
verse' (1) - 1 freq
versed (1) - 4 freq
verses (1) - 59 freq
verge (1) - 9 freq
gerse (1) - 2 freq
versie (1) - 1 freq
verde (1) - 2 freq
varse (1) - 1 freq
erse (1) - 270 freq
ferst (2) - 29 freq
aere (2) - 1 freq
newse (2) - 3 freq
fere (2) - 18 freq
ers (2) - 25 freq
diverse (2) - 24 freq
reverse (2) - 22 freq
verse (0) - 134 freq
averse (1) - 6 freq
versie (1) - 1 freq
varse (1) - 1 freq
versy (1) - 1 freq
vers (1) - 1 freq
versa (1) - 4 freq
erse (2) - 270 freq
verde (2) - 2 freq
verus (2) - 1 freq
oversee (2) - 1 freq
vairse (2) - 15 freq
overs (2) - 2 freq
veers (2) - 1 freq
overuse (2) - 1 freq
merse (2) - 4 freq
versed (2) - 4 freq
verve (2) - 2 freq
gerse (2) - 2 freq
verie (2) - 23 freq
verse' (2) - 1 freq
veyse (2) - 1 freq
verses (2) - 59 freq
verge (2) - 9 freq
cerise (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - V620
various - 61 freq
verse - 134 freq
vairse - 15 freq
verge - 9 freq
vera's - 3 freq
versie - 1 freq
virus - 57 freq
vers - 1 freq
versa - 4 freq
verucca - 2 freq
veruca - 39 freq
'veruca - 2 freq
verse' - 1 freq
varius - 1 freq
virgo - 1 freq
vawrious - 2 freq
'vairse' - 1 freq
varse - 1 freq
voars - 3 freq
varg - 6 freq
viewers - 6 freq
verus - 1 freq
verk - 2 freq
vark - 1 freq
vuark - 1 freq
varck - 1 freq
vork - 1 freq
virk - 1 freq
vyrk - 1 freq
varies - 2 freq
versy - 1 freq
vries - 1 freq
veers - 1 freq
vrck - 1 freq
verish - 1 freq
vrajs - 1 freq
virkie - 1 freq
varios - 1 freq
viris - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FRS
fairies - 39 freq
fierce - 34 freq
furras - 1 freq
phrase - 122 freq
forcie - 4 freq
various - 61 freq
verse - 134 freq
fairce - 3 freq
fears - 40 freq
feres - 52 freq
fire's - 8 freq
frees - 4 freq
force - 129 freq
fieres - 3 freq
far's - 21 freq
furs - 6 freq
faar's - 4 freq
freeze - 23 freq
froze - 21 freq
furrows - 4 freq
fires - 48 freq
faeries - 14 freq
pharaohs - 2 freq
vairse - 15 freq
foresaw - 1 freq
fares - 5 freq
vera's - 3 freq
fiers - 6 freq
fair's - 1 freq
for's - 1 freq
versie - 1 freq
fairs - 10 freq
faroes - 7 freq
faur's - 5 freq
frae's - 2 freq
firs - 7 freq
pharoahss - 1 freq
foarse - 1 freq
'far's - 3 freq
virus - 57 freq
furious - 12 freq
frizzy - 3 freq
feirs - 4 freq
vers - 1 freq
versa - 4 freq
fir's - 3 freq
force' - 1 freq
frieze - 2 freq
ferries - 5 freq
farce - 17 freq
pharisee - 13 freq
forays - 2 freq
fre's - 2 freq
fearce - 1 freq
faers - 2 freq
foresee - 7 freq
verse' - 1 freq
varius - 1 freq
faerce - 6 freq
furrs - 1 freq
fries' - 1 freq
frass' - 1 freq
foras - 3 freq
vawrious - 2 freq
freize - 1 freq
'vairse' - 1 freq
frae'z - 1 freq
forss - 3 freq
varse - 1 freq
ferry's - 1 freq
fairese - 1 freq
firse - 1 freq
voars - 3 freq
feeroese - 1 freq
feroese - 1 freq
frys - 1 freq
fehrs - 1 freq
fur's - 2 freq
feires - 1 freq
faroese - 4 freq
fres - 1 freq
fraise - 2 freq
pharoah's - 1 freq
fyres - 3 freq
fries - 3 freq
fress - 1 freq
fars - 14 freq
verus - 1 freq
fuirs - 1 freq
ferss - 1 freq
foirsei - 1 freq
varies - 2 freq
pharos - 1 freq
versy - 1 freq
fours - 2 freq
vries - 1 freq
fiooers - 2 freq
faras - 1 freq
forrays - 1 freq
€˜feres - 1 freq
veers - 1 freq
ferris - 1 freq
fuar's - 7 freq
fores - 1 freq
fraes - 1 freq
faroeeze - 1 freq
force” - 1 freq
frz - 1 freq
fraazee - 1 freq
forres - 3 freq
farÂ’s - 1 freq
forsee - 1 freq
varios - 1 freq
viris - 1 freq
VERSE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.196745 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 - 0.335905 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 - 0.027845 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 - 0.037503 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 - 0.000891 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.