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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to vain in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
vain (0) - 29 freq
vais (1) - 2 freq
nain (1) - 5 freq
jain (1) - 1 freq
tain (1) - 42 freq
vyin (1) - 1 freq
gain (1) - 53 freq
main (1) - 282 freq
lain (1) - 18 freq
vin (1) - 6 freq
cain (1) - 24 freq
sain (1) - 14 freq
kain (1) - 2 freq
iain (1) - 49 freq
vaina (1) - 1 freq
fain (1) - 44 freq
hain (1) - 63 freq
dain (1) - 144 freq
vann (1) - 3 freq
ain (1) - 2864 freq
wain (1) - 15 freq
vein (1) - 5 freq
van (1) - 159 freq
vapin (1) - 1 freq
vail (1) - 2 freq
vain (0) - 29 freq
vin (1) - 6 freq
vaina (1) - 1 freq
vyin (1) - 1 freq
vein (1) - 5 freq
van (1) - 159 freq
bain (2) - 77 freq
veiny (2) - 2 freq
rain (2) - 672 freq
vail (2) - 2 freq
vaig (2) - 3 freq
pain (2) - 240 freq
vine (2) - 25 freq
avin (2) - 2 freq
evin (2) - 64 freq
vini (2) - 2 freq
vouin (2) - 1 freq
von (2) - 1 freq
vn (2) - 2 freq
vapin (2) - 1 freq
vino (2) - 9 freq
ivan (2) - 6 freq
evein (2) - 3 freq
evan (2) - 12 freq
lain (2) - 18 freq
SoundEx code - V500
vn - 2 freq
vaam - 3 freq
van - 159 freq
vouin - 1 freq
vain - 29 freq
vine - 25 freq
viewin - 3 freq
vin - 6 freq
vein - 5 freq
vino - 9 freq
veni - 1 freq
veiny - 2 freq
venue - 14 freq
vannie - 4 freq
vhan - 1 freq
vienna - 4 freq
vinny' - 1 freq
vom - 1 freq
v¥in - 1 freq
vinna - 1 freq
vieween - 1 freq
viewin' - 1 freq
vinnie - 7 freq
vinny - 2 freq
von - 1 freq
vpoun - 1 freq
vpon - 1 freq
vann - 3 freq
vyin - 1 freq
vim - 1 freq
vini - 2 freq
vonny - 2 freq
vmmw - 1 freq
vm - 11 freq
vem - 1 freq
vpn - 1 freq
vfmn - 1 freq
venn - 1 freq
vaina - 1 freq
vimeo - 2 freq
vhn - 1 freq
vvmhuh - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FN
fine - 1588 freq
fin - 1547 freq
faa'n - 8 freq
funny - 359 freq
fan - 1354 freq
faa'en - 1 freq
fin' - 13 freq
faain - 60 freq
faan - 69 freq
fun - 635 freq
vn - 2 freq
fen - 47 freq
phone - 500 freq
van - 159 freq
funn - 25 freq
fain - 44 freq
'fine - 7 freq
'phone - 2 freq
vouin - 1 freq
fawn - 23 freq
vain - 29 freq
vine - 25 freq
foon - 7 freq
'fan - 2 freq
vin - 6 freq
foun - 45 freq
fyne - 38 freq
vein - 5 freq
faen - 7 freq
vino - 9 freq
veni - 1 freq
wyvin - 13 freq
feign - 3 freq
veiny - 2 freq
venue - 14 freq
fa'in - 19 freq
vannie - 4 freq
faaen - 11 freq
phonie - 1 freq
finn - 47 freq
faw'n - 2 freq
fouin - 1 freq
fowne - 1 freq
feyn - 7 freq
fein - 3 freq
fone - 8 freq
faun - 40 freq
phoney - 1 freq
vienna - 4 freq
fanny - 36 freq
vinny' - 1 freq
'fiona - 1 freq
fuin - 4 freq
hyphen - 2 freq
fiona - 42 freq
fa'en - 4 freq
'-fun - 1 freq
fyn - 8 freq
feein - 4 freq
yvonne - 81 freq
yvonne' - 1 freq
v¥in - 1 freq
foun' - 7 freq
phony - 2 freq
phone' - 1 freq
faun' - 2 freq
vinna - 1 freq
ghana - 1 freq
hövin - 2 freq
fa'n - 1 freq
funie - 1 freq
vinnie - 7 freq
fiann - 1 freq
fon - 3 freq
foan - 1 freq
fiown - 1 freq
fionn - 1 freq
funna - 1 freq
faa'in - 2 freq
f''an - 1 freq
f'an - 1 freq
fann - 1 freq
fauna - 3 freq
fee'in - 1 freq
vinny - 2 freq
'fin - 6 freq
von - 1 freq
feinn - 1 freq
€˜fan - 3 freq
€˜fane - 1 freq
híven - 1 freq
fne - 1 freq
€¦fin - 2 freq
fenn - 1 freq
vann - 3 freq
fonn - 1 freq
€œfine - 7 freq
€œfun - 1 freq
phon - 1 freq
fun' - 1 freq
f-in - 1 freq
vini - 2 freq
€œfin - 1 freq
fa-in - 1 freq
finnie - 1 freq
vonny - 2 freq
féin - 1 freq
€˜finn - 2 freq
fianna - 1 freq
fuan - 2 freq
€˜fine - 1 freq
hven - 1 freq
fn - 4 freq
hvun - 1 freq
fane - 1 freq
fion - 2 freq
venn - 1 freq
phunny - 1 freq
fino - 1 freq
fÂ’n - 1 freq
vaina - 1 freq
fine' - 1 freq
vhn - 1 freq
funow - 1 freq
fonuu - 1 freq
finÂ’ - 1 freq
VAIN
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.257652 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 - 0.354033 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 - 0.029549 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 - 0.044137 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 - 0.001108 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.