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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to bilers in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
bilers (0) - 1 freq
biles (1) - 14 freq
bikers (1) - 2 freq
biler (1) - 8 freq
bylers (1) - 2 freq
balers (1) - 1 freq
biler's (1) - 1 freq
biters (1) - 2 freq
eilers (1) - 1 freq
bakers (2) - 24 freq
miners (2) - 41 freq
givers (2) - 2 freq
bides (2) - 230 freq
bikes (2) - 31 freq
boxers (2) - 1 freq
bile't (2) - 1 freq
baler (2) - 4 freq
fixers (2) - 1 freq
bier (2) - 3 freq
bilet (2) - 3 freq
mile's (2) - 2 freq
beers (2) - 13 freq
pillers (2) - 2 freq
piles (2) - 26 freq
spilers (2) - 1 freq
bilers (0) - 1 freq
balers (1) - 1 freq
bylers (1) - 2 freq
bleers (2) - 1 freq
boolers (2) - 1 freq
blears (2) - 2 freq
blurs (2) - 1 freq
eilers (2) - 1 freq
bikers (2) - 2 freq
biles (2) - 14 freq
biler's (2) - 1 freq
biler (2) - 8 freq
biters (2) - 2 freq
byler (3) - 3 freq
dailers (3) - 2 freq
tylers (3) - 1 freq
buyers (3) - 6 freq
biurs (3) - 1 freq
allers (3) - 1 freq
bullers (3) - 2 freq
bulders (3) - 1 freq
bless (3) - 44 freq
boiler (3) - 4 freq
rulers (3) - 8 freq
breers (3) - 6 freq
SoundEx code - B462
bleers - 1 freq
blears - 2 freq
blair's - 1 freq
bilers - 1 freq
blairgowrie - 4 freq
balers - 1 freq
ballyraggin - 1 freq
blarge - 1 freq
bullers - 2 freq
biler's - 1 freq
bylers - 2 freq
boiler-suit - 1 freq
blurs - 1 freq
bylerhoose - 5 freq
boolers - 1 freq
belarussian - 1 freq
blorachin - 1 freq
bylerhous - 1 freq
bulrush - 1 freq
blairius - 1 freq
bilerhoose - 2 freq
boiler-hoose - 1 freq
belarusian - 7 freq
belarus - 3 freq
blarged - 1 freq
blairkaylor - 2 freq
blairhaugh - 1 freq
blowers - 1 freq
bleurgh - 1 freq
byler's - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - BLRS
bleers - 1 freq
blears - 2 freq
blair's - 1 freq
bilers - 1 freq
balers - 1 freq
bullers - 2 freq
biler's - 1 freq
bylers - 2 freq
blurs - 1 freq
boolers - 1 freq
blairius - 1 freq
belarus - 3 freq
byler's - 1 freq
BILERS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.213529 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 - 0.387572 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 - 0.029315 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 - 0.039685 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 - 0.001153 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.