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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to cables in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
cables (0) - 6 freq
fables (1) - 10 freq
nables (1) - 1 freq
cable (1) - 12 freq
gables (1) - 4 freq
carles (1) - 6 freq
cobles (1) - 2 freq
tables (1) - 84 freq
caalls (2) - 1 freq
canes (2) - 2 freq
yable (2) - 7 freq
valles (2) - 1 freq
coagles (2) - 1 freq
cannes (2) - 1 freq
cabals (2) - 4 freq
babes (2) - 6 freq
cabbies (2) - 1 freq
cabesy (2) - 5 freq
-able (2) - 1 freq
cakies (2) - 1 freq
sabies (2) - 13 freq
tablet (2) - 25 freq
cares (2) - 61 freq
cabers (2) - 4 freq
scales (2) - 22 freq
cables (0) - 6 freq
cobles (1) - 2 freq
fables (2) - 10 freq
cabals (2) - 4 freq
nables (2) - 1 freq
tables (2) - 84 freq
cable (2) - 12 freq
gables (2) - 4 freq
carles (2) - 6 freq
coles (3) - 4 freq
callus (3) - 1 freq
chablis (3) - 1 freq
cycles (3) - 5 freq
vocables (3) - 1 freq
caunles (3) - 13 freq
cabons (3) - 1 freq
enables (3) - 1 freq
taebles (3) - 2 freq
cobler (3) - 1 freq
coble (3) - 5 freq
calls (3) - 35 freq
caals (3) - 2 freq
cubes (3) - 12 freq
nobles (3) - 7 freq
cabins (3) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - C142
cobbles - 10 freq
couples - 14 freq
chablis - 1 freq
cabalistic - 1 freq
cavelike - 1 freq
cobblestaned - 1 freq
ceivilisation - 4 freq
ceivilisations - 2 freq
caffle's - 1 freq
couple's - 3 freq
civilization - 3 freq
cables - 6 freq
'civilization' - 1 freq
ceevilization - 2 freq
civilised - 8 freq
civilisation - 9 freq
ceevilisations - 3 freq
ceevilisation - 4 freq
civilized - 1 freq
cobblestoned - 2 freq
capill-stok - 1 freq
civiliesaetion - 1 freq
cobblestones - 1 freq
cupples - 1 freq
cobles - 2 freq
civilisatilon - 1 freq
ceevilised - 6 freq
chapels - 2 freq
ceevalisin - 1 freq
ceevilise - 1 freq
ceevilsation - 1 freq
civilize - 1 freq
civilisations - 1 freq
cabals - 4 freq
€œceevilisation - 1 freq
cafflick - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KBLS
cobbles - 10 freq
gables - 4 freq
cables - 6 freq
kæbils - 1 freq
cobles - 2 freq
cabals - 4 freq
gablos - 1 freq
CABLES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.334138 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 - 0.564654 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 - 0.035833 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 - 0.046863 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 - 0.001221 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.