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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to vest in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
vest (0) - 14 freq
test (1) - 146 freq
vet (1) - 37 freq
ves (1) - 2 freq
vesa (1) - 1 freq
vext (1) - 14 freq
lest (1) - 218 freq
est (1) - 22 freq
vent (1) - 6 freq
vests (1) - 4 freq
rest (1) - 696 freq
best (1) - 1613 freq
gest (1) - 1 freq
zest (1) - 2 freq
vast (1) - 36 freq
fest (1) - 54 freq
vesta (1) - 2 freq
west (1) - 216 freq
pest (1) - 25 freq
vst (1) - 1 freq
vert (1) - 1 freq
yest (1) - 2 freq
veet (1) - 6 freq
aest (1) - 21 freq
jest (1) - 80 freq
vest (0) - 14 freq
vst (1) - 1 freq
vast (1) - 36 freq
vesta (1) - 2 freq
aest (2) - 21 freq
veet (2) - 6 freq
vert (2) - 1 freq
jest (2) - 80 freq
yest (2) - 2 freq
avast (2) - 3 freq
veisit (2) - 25 freq
visit (2) - 147 freq
vista (2) - 3 freq
veesit (2) - 93 freq
kest (2) - 18 freq
nest (2) - 81 freq
pest (2) - 25 freq
eest (2) - 24 freq
ves (2) - 2 freq
lest (2) - 218 freq
test (2) - 146 freq
vext (2) - 14 freq
vesa (2) - 1 freq
west (2) - 216 freq
vet (2) - 37 freq
SoundEx code - V230
veisit - 25 freq
vizzied - 26 freq
veesit - 93 freq
visit - 147 freq
vext - 14 freq
vyce-the - 1 freq
vexed - 47 freq
vast - 36 freq
'visit - 1 freq
vest - 14 freq
voyagit - 8 freq
vexit - 2 freq
voiced - 16 freq
voice-the - 1 freq
vouchit - 1 freq
vïsit - 4 freq
vaeged - 2 freq
vista - 3 freq
vyced - 3 freq
voustie - 1 freq
vex't - 2 freq
vaikit - 1 freq
vesta - 2 freq
vissied - 2 freq
vexxed - 1 freq
vaiged - 1 freq
vaigit - 1 freq
vacate - 1 freq
vjday - 2 freq
vjctd - 1 freq
vsd - 1 freq
vashti - 2 freq
vst - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FST
ghaist - 60 freq
fast - 314 freq
veisit - 25 freq
fussed - 13 freq
foostie - 15 freq
foost - 5 freq
fest - 54 freq
vizzied - 26 freq
fist - 56 freq
feast - 54 freq
veesit - 93 freq
ghost - 73 freq
visit - 147 freq
faced - 69 freq
ghostey - 1 freq
foozat - 1 freq
facet - 1 freq
faist - 29 freq
vast - 36 freq
'visit - 1 freq
feastie - 1 freq
fiesta - 3 freq
vest - 14 freq
fesst - 1 freq
ficet - 2 freq
fcit - 1 freq
foosty - 16 freq
ghostie - 1 freq
fazed - 2 freq
festie - 11 freq
fused - 6 freq
ghousty - 1 freq
voiced - 16 freq
feezed - 1 freq
ghost' - 1 freq
vïsit - 4 freq
fooste - 1 freq
fousty - 3 freq
fusst - 1 freq
fast' - 1 freq
foust - 1 freq
fessit - 2 freq
faast - 4 freq
ghawst - 2 freq
vista - 3 freq
vyced - 3 freq
fosti - 1 freq
voustie - 1 freq
fausette - 1 freq
vesta - 2 freq
faized - 1 freq
vissied - 2 freq
fessed - 5 freq
fizzed - 1 freq
faste - 1 freq
ghaistie - 1 freq
€˜ghost - 1 freq
€”faced - 1 freq
facedd - 1 freq
feisty - 1 freq
phased - 1 freq
hyvast - 6 freq
vsd - 1 freq
ghosty - 1 freq
vst - 1 freq
faside - 1 freq
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Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.222574 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 - 0.485718 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 - 0.081657 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 - 0.099733 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 - 0.001243 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.