A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Levenshtein Distance

Enter a word to find nearest neighbouring words, for example ahint

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - fine-grain concord -

Similar words to displays in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
displays (0) - 11 freq
display (1) - 49 freq
displayed (2) - 7 freq
displayin (2) - 2 freq
disays (2) - 1 freq
islay (3) - 4 freq
dispels (3) - 1 freq
dispair (3) - 1 freq
islans (3) - 5 freq
displaying (3) - 1 freq
disobeys (3) - 1 freq
displaced (3) - 1 freq
dispare (3) - 1 freq
isla's (3) - 5 freq
replays (3) - 1 freq
plays (3) - 123 freq
splats (3) - 3 freq
€˜plays (3) - 1 freq
dismay (3) - 15 freq
dispraise (3) - 3 freq
dimples (3) - 4 freq
disputes (3) - 1 freq
displease (3) - 1 freq
delays (3) - 1 freq
'plays (3) - 1 freq
displays (0) - 11 freq
display (2) - 49 freq
displease (3) - 1 freq
dispels (3) - 1 freq
displayin (3) - 2 freq
displayed (3) - 7 freq
disputes (4) - 1 freq
dimples (4) - 4 freq
dispraise (4) - 3 freq
disays (4) - 1 freq
diplayin (5) - 1 freq
diasporas (5) - 1 freq
dispel (5) - 4 freq
'plays (5) - 1 freq
dispeace (5) - 1 freq
misplease (5) - 1 freq
disclose (5) - 1 freq
distils (5) - 2 freq
dispose (5) - 2 freq
despots (5) - 5 freq
displeased (5) - 1 freq
displaying (5) - 1 freq
delays (5) - 1 freq
replays (5) - 1 freq
plays (5) - 123 freq
SoundEx code - D214
disbelief - 21 freq
discipline - 10 freq
displays - 11 freq
displayed - 7 freq
display - 49 freq
dispel - 4 freq
disabled - 7 freq
displeisur - 1 freq
disciple - 6 freq
decibels - 1 freq
disciples - 55 freq
dishevelled - 5 freq
doughball - 1 freq
disabilities - 5 freq
despoilation - 1 freq
disability - 5 freq
displayin - 2 freq
dispels - 1 freq
disbelievin - 1 freq
disciple's - 1 freq
displease - 1 freq
dispelled - 2 freq
disciplines - 1 freq
displeasure - 1 freq
'discipline - 1 freq
disablit - 1 freq
deiscipline - 2 freq
dogsflourish - 1 freq
discipleine - 1 freq
deisciplines - 1 freq
disbelieve - 1 freq
deuk-bill - 1 freq
disabeilities - 1 freq
displaeced - 1 freq
disbelievers - 1 freq
displacing - 1 freq
disable - 1 freq
disabeelity - 1 freq
displeased - 1 freq
displaying - 1 freq
disipleenaree - 1 freq
doygeflns - 1 freq
disabalist - 2 freq
dishevel - 1 freq
displaced - 1 freq
disciplined - 1 freq
decvalts - 1 freq
dgplacenames - 38 freq
dsfl - 1 freq
dasgefalltmir - 1 freq
digbylj - 1 freq
disciplinary - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TSPLS
displays - 11 freq
disciples - 55 freq
dispels - 1 freq
disciple's - 1 freq
displease - 1 freq
DISPLAYS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.198428 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 - 0.368038 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 - 0.031316 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 - 0.037715 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 - 0.000813 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.