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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to silent in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
silent (0) - 140 freq
sklent (1) - 31 freq
seilent (1) - 6 freq
slept (2) - 57 freq
siren (2) - 10 freq
siden (2) - 2 freq
sint (2) - 24 freq
spleit (2) - 1 freq
mient (2) - 3 freq
shent (2) - 3 freq
silken (2) - 10 freq
strent (2) - 20 freq
smilet (2) - 19 freq
siven (2) - 2 freq
talent (2) - 59 freq
sílent (2) - 2 freq
sinnt (2) - 1 freq
sirkent (2) - 1 freq
sile (2) - 9 freq
silt (2) - 3 freq
siventy (2) - 1 freq
sillert (2) - 1 freq
lisent (2) - 1 freq
asklent (2) - 8 freq
siles (2) - 1 freq
silent (0) - 140 freq
seilent (1) - 6 freq
salient (2) - 2 freq
seelent (2) - 25 freq
sleent (2) - 1 freq
slant (2) - 3 freq
sklent (2) - 31 freq
sklenty (3) - 1 freq
lent (3) - 38 freq
signt (3) - 7 freq
scent (3) - 65 freq
asclent (3) - 1 freq
silently (3) - 32 freq
seilens (3) - 2 freq
relent (3) - 5 freq
spent (3) - 272 freq
sailen (3) - 2 freq
sleet (3) - 46 freq
glent (3) - 30 freq
splint (3) - 1 freq
select (3) - 8 freq
slanty (3) - 1 freq
solvent (3) - 1 freq
sent (3) - 541 freq
saicent (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - S453
silent - 140 freq
sclimt - 9 freq
silently - 32 freq
seelent - 25 freq
sklent - 31 freq
sklinter - 1 freq
slammed - 22 freq
sclimmt - 5 freq
sklentit - 8 freq
sclimmed - 33 freq
sklents - 2 freq
slender - 9 freq
slantin - 2 freq
slant - 3 freq
slanted - 2 freq
slander - 3 freq
shulammite - 2 freq
soulmate - 1 freq
sklinters - 1 freq
schuilmates - 1 freq
slantit - 4 freq
slam-dunk - 1 freq
slammit - 1 freq
sklintered - 1 freq
slandeérin - 1 freq
sklentin - 4 freq
sleent - 1 freq
sklentyweys - 1 freq
sklenty - 1 freq
slam't - 1 freq
slanders - 1 freq
sklimmed - 3 freq
sowl-mate - 1 freq
soul-mate - 1 freq
slundy - 1 freq
seilent - 6 freq
sloomed - 1 freq
slainte - 3 freq
sclimed - 2 freq
sklentan - 2 freq
sholmet - 1 freq
sholmit - 1 freq
salient - 2 freq
sklintert - 2 freq
slimed - 1 freq
sel-made - 1 freq
scuilmates - 1 freq
seelently - 1 freq
seal-maids - 1 freq
sklimmit - 1 freq
sklented - 1 freq
sclents - 1 freq
sklentwise - 1 freq
sealand - 1 freq
sílent - 2 freq
shawlands - 1 freq
scoland - 1 freq
sklentie - 1 freq
slammt - 1 freq
sclintered - 2 freq
sloomit - 1 freq
sláinte - 2 freq
slanty - 1 freq
slendersherbet - 1 freq
sclenters - 1 freq
slaintje - 1 freq
slàinte - 1 freq
sklentiefruit - 3 freq
'sklentifruit' - 1 freq
sklentiefruit-relatit - 1 freq
salinity - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SLNT
silent - 140 freq
zealand - 40 freq
seelent - 25 freq
slant - 3 freq
sleent - 1 freq
slundy - 1 freq
seilent - 6 freq
zeiland - 2 freq
yslaand - 2 freq
slainte - 3 freq
salient - 2 freq
sealand - 1 freq
sílent - 2 freq
sláinte - 2 freq
slanty - 1 freq
zeeland - 1 freq
slàinte - 1 freq
salinity - 1 freq
SILENT
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.200076 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 - 0.340911 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 - 0.027890 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 - 0.037349 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 - 0.000863 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.