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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to devotees in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
devotees (0) - 3 freq
devoto's (2) - 1 freq
devoted (2) - 4 freq
devoured (3) - 3 freq
devices (3) - 8 freq
votes (3) - 69 freq
devolved (3) - 7 freq
fotees (3) - 3 freq
deesters (3) - 1 freq
devotion (3) - 20 freq
remotes (3) - 1 freq
dooters (3) - 2 freq
denties (3) - 2 freq
voters (3) - 63 freq
evites (3) - 1 freq
divot's (3) - 2 freq
devored (3) - 1 freq
devotin (3) - 1 freq
divots (3) - 5 freq
decrees (3) - 3 freq
devotedly (3) - 1 freq
deinties (3) - 2 freq
delytes (3) - 1 freq
devotions (3) - 4 freq
revote (3) - 1 freq
devotees (0) - 3 freq
devoted (3) - 4 freq
divots (3) - 5 freq
devoto's (3) - 1 freq
devotions (4) - 4 freq
delytes (4) - 1 freq
deinties (4) - 2 freq
deputes (4) - 1 freq
dewties (4) - 1 freq
devotit (4) - 5 freq
divits (4) - 1 freq
deities (4) - 2 freq
duvets (4) - 1 freq
devotin (4) - 1 freq
debates (4) - 11 freq
dotes (4) - 1 freq
votes (4) - 69 freq
devotion (4) - 20 freq
devices (4) - 8 freq
evites (4) - 1 freq
divot's (4) - 2 freq
denties (4) - 2 freq
devise (5) - 2 freq
ditties (5) - 1 freq
divines (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - D132
david's - 17 freq
daftish - 2 freq
dafties - 17 freq
dafties' - 1 freq
debts - 8 freq
divots - 5 freq
depths - 13 freq
doubts - 5 freq
devotees - 3 freq
divot's - 2 freq
dvds - 3 freq
depth's - 1 freq
diabetes - 6 freq
debt's - 1 freq
dabbities - 1 freq
davidson - 26 freq
daftest - 4 freq
diabetic - 2 freq
davit's - 1 freq
dippitest - 1 freq
devoto's - 1 freq
daavit's - 6 freq
doobts - 1 freq
deepths - 5 freq
daftie's - 10 freq
depts - 3 freq
debates - 11 freq
divides - 4 freq
daavid's - 1 freq
dauvit's - 1 freq
divits - 1 freq
davidson's - 1 freq
davidsons - 3 freq
deputes - 1 freq
depth-charges - 2 freq
devdas - 3 freq
deputyship - 1 freq
dafities - 1 freq
dtptsgmqe - 1 freq
davidjames - 3 freq
davidcameron - 1 freq
davidÂ’s - 1 freq
davidjmadden - 1 freq
dipduckdive - 3 freq
davidccraig - 1 freq
davidjwood - 3 freq
davidjewood - 1 freq
davidsonmagnus - 3 freq
diabetesuk - 1 freq
davidghfrost - 1 freq
duvets - 1 freq
davidschneider - 2 freq
davidwshedden - 1 freq
davidhawker - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TFTS
david's - 17 freq
dafties - 17 freq
dafties' - 1 freq
divots - 5 freq
devotees - 3 freq
dights - 5 freq
divot's - 2 freq
dvds - 3 freq
tufty's - 3 freq
tuftie's - 1 freq
tuffty's - 1 freq
tights - 15 freq
davit's - 1 freq
devoto's - 1 freq
daavit's - 6 freq
tufts - 2 freq
daftie's - 10 freq
divides - 4 freq
daavid's - 1 freq
dauvit's - 1 freq
divits - 1 freq
€œtights - 1 freq
devdas - 3 freq
dafities - 1 freq
davidÂ’s - 1 freq
duvets - 1 freq
DEVOTEES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.189890 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 - 0.319728 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 - 0.027344 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 - 0.036999 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 - 0.000835 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.