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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to afternoon in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
afternoon (0) - 103 freq
aifternoon (1) - 3 freq
'afternoon (1) - 1 freq
efternoon (1) - 57 freq
afturnoon (1) - 1 freq
afternoons (1) - 1 freq
afternuin (2) - 2 freq
afterneen (2) - 6 freq
efternoons (2) - 9 freq
eftirnoon (2) - 5 freq
€˜afternoon (2) - 1 freq
efternuin (3) - 60 freq
aifterneen (3) - 26 freq
awtroon (3) - 26 freq
efternön (3) - 2 freq
eftinoon (3) - 1 freq
efterninn (3) - 2 freq
efternain (3) - 1 freq
afternane (3) - 1 freq
efternin (3) - 11 freq
efterneen (3) - 69 freq
after-kin (3) - 1 freq
aifternuin (3) - 1 freq
efterkin (4) - 1 freq
efternune (4) - 4 freq
afternoon (0) - 103 freq
efternoon (1) - 57 freq
aifternoon (1) - 3 freq
afturnoon (1) - 1 freq
eftirnoon (2) - 5 freq
afterneen (2) - 6 freq
afternuin (2) - 2 freq
afternoons (2) - 1 freq
'afternoon (2) - 1 freq
afternane (3) - 1 freq
efternin (3) - 11 freq
efterneen (3) - 69 freq
efternain (3) - 1 freq
aifternuin (3) - 1 freq
efternuin (3) - 60 freq
efternoons (3) - 9 freq
aifterneen (3) - 26 freq
efternune (4) - 4 freq
eftrneen (4) - 1 freq
eftirneun (4) - 1 freq
eftirnuin (4) - 2 freq
€˜afternoon (4) - 1 freq
efternane (4) - 3 freq
eftinoon (4) - 1 freq
efterninn (4) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - A136
after - 352 freq
aifter - 339 freq
aifterneen - 26 freq
aifterwart - 1 freq
aifter-life - 1 freq
afternoon - 103 freq
afterwards - 14 freq
aifternuin - 1 freq
aifternuins - 1 freq
after-shave - 2 freq
aiftertimes - 4 freq
aafaither - 1 freq
afterstang - 1 freq
after-kin - 1 freq
aftershave - 4 freq
affatr - 1 freq
afterneen - 6 freq
after-school - 1 freq
afterward - 3 freq
'afternoon - 1 freq
aifter-oors - 1 freq
aifterthoucht - 1 freq
afternoons - 1 freq
afternane - 1 freq
aftur - 1 freq
afturnoon - 1 freq
abderus - 2 freq
aff-there - 1 freq
aftir - 1 freq
aftairthocht - 1 freq
€˜aifter - 1 freq
€˜afternoon - 1 freq
aff-drawn - 1 freq
aifterwards - 3 freq
avatars - 3 freq
avatar - 2 freq
aiftir - 1 freq
aefter - 4 freq
aifterhins - 2 freq
aifterhin - 2 freq
€œafter - 3 freq
afternuin - 2 freq
aifternoon - 3 freq
aftermorning - 1 freq
afters - 3 freq
abother - 1 freq
'afters' - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - AFTRNN
aifterneen - 26 freq
afternoon - 103 freq
aifternuin - 1 freq
afterneen - 6 freq
'afternoon - 1 freq
afternane - 1 freq
afturnoon - 1 freq
€˜afternoon - 1 freq
afternuin - 2 freq
aifternoon - 3 freq
AFTERNOON
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.191922 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 - 0.358326 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 - 0.027408 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 - 0.037264 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 - 0.000869 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.