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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to african in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
african (0) - 21 freq
africa (1) - 35 freq
aafrican (1) - 1 freq
africay (1) - 1 freq
africae (1) - 3 freq
africas (1) - 1 freq
africans (1) - 1 freq
africany (1) - 1 freq
africk (2) - 1 freq
american (2) - 92 freq
arisan (2) - 1 freq
efricans (2) - 1 freq
adrian (2) - 4 freq
afric (2) - 1 freq
africy (2) - 1 freq
merican (2) - 1 freq
afrika (2) - 5 freq
anglican (3) - 1 freq
jamaican (3) - 13 freq
doricana (3) - 2 freq
aricht (3) - 71 freq
mohican (3) - 2 freq
fridae (3) - 1 freq
abaidan (3) - 1 freq
alricht (3) - 4 freq
african (0) - 21 freq
aafrican (1) - 1 freq
africany (1) - 1 freq
africans (2) - 1 freq
africas (2) - 1 freq
africae (2) - 3 freq
africa (2) - 35 freq
africay (2) - 1 freq
afric (3) - 1 freq
africy (3) - 1 freq
frecn (3) - 1 freq
merican (3) - 1 freq
efricans (3) - 1 freq
africk (3) - 1 freq
american (3) - 92 freq
fran (4) - 1 freq
fracas (4) - 2 freq
pricin (4) - 2 freq
frisian (4) - 29 freq
africkie (4) - 1 freq
americano (4) - 2 freq
americany (4) - 2 freq
forcin (4) - 22 freq
arcin (4) - 2 freq
arcana (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - A162
africa - 35 freq
african - 21 freq
aforesaid - 2 freq
approached - 21 freq
aforesyne - 4 freq
appears - 84 freq
approachin - 21 freq
approach - 107 freq
approximate - 2 freq
apricots - 3 freq
affairs - 42 freq
appreciate - 63 freq
appreciated - 26 freq
appreciation - 25 freq
apreesheeaitet - 1 freq
africy - 1 freq
approaching - 7 freq
aversion - 4 freq
africany - 1 freq
approaches - 11 freq
average - 29 freq
apprise - 2 freq
approachin' - 1 freq
appraise - 1 freq
apprasin - 1 freq
averse - 6 freq
affairs' - 1 freq
appreciatit - 14 freq
avarice - 1 freq
approximatin - 1 freq
avariciousness - 1 freq
approachit - 1 freq
'abricadabra - 1 freq
afresh - 1 freq
appraising - 1 freq
afric - 1 freq
affair's - 1 freq
afore-schuil - 7 freq
'appears - 1 freq
approchit - 1 freq
approch - 1 freq
afore's - 1 freq
appraisals - 1 freq
africay - 1 freq
afriek's - 1 freq
abercrombie - 2 freq
afrekae - 1 freq
appraisin - 1 freq
affricates - 1 freq
approximants - 1 freq
affricate - 2 freq
approximant - 4 freq
apprisit - 1 freq
africae - 3 freq
€˜approach - 1 freq
apprised - 1 freq
africk - 1 freq
aibercorn - 2 freq
approched - 1 freq
affrighted - 2 freq
africkie - 1 freq
afrikaans - 2 freq
appreciatin - 1 freq
approximately - 1 freq
aafrican - 1 freq
apricot - 1 freq
afrika - 5 freq
approachable - 1 freq
aforestation - 1 freq
€œafrika - 1 freq
afrikaaners - 3 freq
approximation - 1 freq
aproaches - 1 freq
approchan - 1 freq
appreciatively - 2 freq
aborigines - 1 freq
appraisinly - 1 freq
appreciates - 3 freq
averagin - 1 freq
africans - 1 freq
€™approach - 1 freq
€˜aforesyne - 1 freq
appreciative - 1 freq
aproch - 6 freq
après-ski - 1 freq
aipricocks - 1 freq
aberquine - 2 freq
aberjohnny - 2 freq
appréciateur - 1 freq
avvurcj - 1 freq
aberystwythcar - 1 freq
africas - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - AFRKN
african - 21 freq
africany - 1 freq
aafrican - 1 freq
AFRICAN
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.255234 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 - 0.471715 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 - 0.037475 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 - 0.045666 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 - 0.000942 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.