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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to deevil in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
deevil (0) - 17 freq
ceevil (1) - 45 freq
deevin (1) - 4 freq
dervil (1) - 1 freq
devil (1) - 33 freq
deevils (1) - 11 freq
deesil (1) - 3 freq
trevil (2) - 2 freq
deezie (2) - 1 freq
dreezil (2) - 2 freq
deelin (2) - 1 freq
deavit (2) - 1 freq
dcesil (2) - 1 freq
deasil (2) - 1 freq
derail (2) - 1 freq
ceivil (2) - 6 freq
dee'in (2) - 3 freq
i'evil (2) - 1 freq
sneevil (2) - 1 freq
deivin (2) - 1 freq
ceevic (2) - 2 freq
deekin (2) - 2 freq
deerie (2) - 1 freq
deel (2) - 2 freq
divil (2) - 17 freq
deevil (0) - 17 freq
devil (1) - 33 freq
deesil (2) - 3 freq
divil (2) - 17 freq
deval (2) - 4 freq
deevils (2) - 11 freq
ceevil (2) - 45 freq
dervil (2) - 1 freq
deevin (2) - 4 freq
devaal (3) - 5 freq
diesil (3) - 1 freq
dievin (3) - 1 freq
deeve (3) - 5 freq
derval (3) - 17 freq
detail (3) - 42 freq
deivils (3) - 1 freq
kevil (3) - 1 freq
deeves (3) - 1 freq
dervel (3) - 1 freq
devils (3) - 1 freq
deisil (3) - 1 freq
deavin (3) - 8 freq
evil (3) - 89 freq
laevil (3) - 1 freq
devaul (3) - 9 freq
SoundEx code - D140
deeply - 36 freq
deeplie - 1 freq
dwaiblie - 15 freq
double - 126 freq
deploy - 4 freq
devaul - 9 freq
dooble - 26 freq
devil - 33 freq
duffle - 2 freq
doubly - 4 freq
dwaibly - 9 freq
divvil - 3 freq
dwaible - 2 freq
devaill - 1 freq
'double - 3 freq
dweeblie - 1 freq
divvle - 1 freq
divil - 17 freq
dubble - 2 freq
deevil - 17 freq
dibble - 1 freq
defily - 1 freq
dabble - 2 freq
doubil - 3 freq
divvel - 4 freq
devaall - 1 freq
develue - 1 freq
deval - 4 freq
devaal - 5 freq
duffel - 2 freq
dapple - 2 freq
divil' - 1 freq
dweeble - 3 freq
€˜double - 2 freq
€œdouble - 1 freq
dfwil - 2 freq
dupl - 1 freq
deeable - 1 freq
diplo - 1 freq
dvla - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TFL
devaul - 9 freq
devil - 33 freq
duffle - 2 freq
divvil - 3 freq
devaill - 1 freq
divvle - 1 freq
divil - 17 freq
deevil - 17 freq
defily - 1 freq
divvel - 4 freq
tivoli - 5 freq
devaall - 1 freq
develue - 1 freq
deval - 4 freq
devaal - 5 freq
duffel - 2 freq
tfel - 1 freq
divil' - 1 freq
tvl - 1 freq
dvla - 1 freq
DEEVIL
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.255573 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 - 0.348780 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 - 0.029587 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 - 0.043065 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 - 0.000797 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.