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Levenshtein Distance

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

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Similar words to name in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
name (0) - 1202 freq
nayme (1) - 2 freq
jame (1) - 3 freq
lame (1) - 10 freq
nme (1) - 2 freq
fame (1) - 47 freq
dame (1) - 16 freq
'name (1) - 2 freq
nave (1) - 1 freq
name' (1) - 3 freq
game (1) - 642 freq
mame (1) - 2 freq
bame (1) - 2 freq
eame (1) - 1 freq
nare (1) - 1 freq
aname (1) - 1 freq
namer (1) - 1 freq
naze (1) - 1 freq
kame (1) - 6 freq
nape (1) - 2 freq
named (1) - 50 freq
ame (1) - 3 freq
hame (1) - 2334 freq
names (1) - 300 freq
same (1) - 1698 freq
name (0) - 1202 freq
aname (1) - 1 freq
nme (1) - 2 freq
naime (1) - 7 freq
nayme (1) - 2 freq
nae (2) - 9712 freq
rame (2) - 3 freq
nane (2) - 544 freq
nate (2) - 9 freq
wame (2) - 74 freq
tame (2) - 23 freq
nym (2) - 1 freq
came (2) - 890 freq
nem (2) - 51 freq
nymy (2) - 1 freq
naomi (2) - 14 freq
nom (2) - 2 freq
nm (2) - 2 freq
nim (2) - 9 freq
naem (2) - 48 freq
naim (2) - 5 freq
nemea (2) - 9 freq
same (2) - 1698 freq
nmo (2) - 1 freq
nave (2) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - N500
nane - 544 freq
nae'n - 1 freq
name - 1202 freq
neen - 130 freq
nem - 51 freq
newin - 1 freq
nuhin - 48 freq
nine - 229 freq
none - 57 freq
naewan - 13 freq
'name - 2 freq
noon - 28 freq
non - 36 freq
'nemm - 2 freq
na-na - 1 freq
n'en - 6 freq
nuin - 14 freq
name' - 3 freq
nan - 14 freq
'nane - 5 freq
neem - 22 freq
neon - 7 freq
nanny - 7 freq
naim - 5 freq
neyn - 1 freq
'nuhin - 2 freq
nuhin- - 2 freq
nim - 9 freq
naen - 10 freq
nun - 9 freq
naomh - 1 freq
'nine - 2 freq
nein - 4 freq
'nein - 1 freq
nimmo - 7 freq
niné - 1 freq
nen - 6 freq
nain - 5 freq
nahum - 3 freq
'no-no' - 1 freq
numm - 1 freq
naomi - 14 freq
nannie - 4 freq
nemm - 6 freq
nyne - 4 freq
naem - 48 freq
nano- - 1 freq
nemme - 9 freq
non- - 1 freq
nana - 11 freq
nina - 1 freq
naime - 7 freq
nehm - 1 freq
nummi - 3 freq
nohin - 1 freq
nemea - 9 freq
noun - 48 freq
neamh - 1 freq
nayme - 2 freq
'none - 1 freq
nönin - 1 freq
€˜nannie - 1 freq
naeyin - 2 freq
€œnane - 3 freq
nin - 1 freq
naehin - 3 freq
na'hin - 2 freq
nom - 2 freq
€˜name - 1 freq
nehemiah - 1 freq
nu'hin' - 5 freq
neon- - 1 freq
€œneen - 2 freq
naun - 1 freq
nuhin' - 1 freq
niamh - 16 freq
€˜niamh - 1 freq
nien - 5 freq
neean - 1 freq
naamah - 2 freq
no-one - 3 freq
€™nine - 1 freq
nihin - 5 freq
neeenaaw - 1 freq
niemi - 1 freq
nean - 1 freq
nani - 1 freq
nyum - 2 freq
nuhin” - 1 freq
'naan' - 1 freq
naan - 2 freq
nanna - 1 freq
nyhn - 1 freq
nymy - 1 freq
nym - 1 freq
nyummy - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - NM
name - 1202 freq
nem - 51 freq
'name - 2 freq
numb - 27 freq
'nemm - 2 freq
gnome - 2 freq
namby - 1 freq
name' - 3 freq
neem - 22 freq
naim - 5 freq
nim - 9 freq
naomh - 1 freq
nimmo - 7 freq
numm - 1 freq
naomi - 14 freq
nemm - 6 freq
naem - 48 freq
nemme - 9 freq
naime - 7 freq
nehm - 1 freq
nummi - 3 freq
nemea - 9 freq
neamh - 1 freq
nayme - 2 freq
ném - 1 freq
nom - 2 freq
€˜name - 1 freq
niamh - 16 freq
€˜niamh - 1 freq
naamah - 2 freq
nme - 2 freq
niemi - 1 freq
nm - 2 freq
nmw - 1 freq
gnom - 2 freq
nymy - 1 freq
nym - 1 freq
nmo - 1 freq
NAME
name - 1202 freq
named - 50 freq
names - 300 freq
naming - 2 freq
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.182163 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 - 0.327022 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 - 0.027512 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 - 0.036871 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 - 0.000794 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.