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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to alastair in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
alastair (0) - 10 freq
alasdair (1) - 19 freq
alistair (1) - 22 freq
astair (2) - 1 freq
alisdair (2) - 1 freq
alastairmci (3) - 4 freq
allstars (3) - 1 freq
alistair's (3) - 6 freq
plastik (3) - 1 freq
upstair (3) - 5 freq
blastin (3) - 11 freq
alaska (3) - 2 freq
i'stair (3) - 4 freq
avatar (3) - 2 freq
blaster (3) - 3 freq
blastit (3) - 9 freq
arabstar (3) - 3 freq
laetir (3) - 2 freq
plastic (3) - 127 freq
aaltir (3) - 1 freq
lastin (3) - 9 freq
plaster (3) - 14 freq
astir (3) - 1 freq
alancarr (3) - 1 freq
alasdair's (3) - 1 freq
alastair (0) - 10 freq
alistair (1) - 22 freq
alasdair (2) - 19 freq
alister (3) - 1 freq
alisdair (3) - 1 freq
astair (3) - 1 freq
altar (4) - 23 freq
lastit (4) - 13 freq
lastin (4) - 9 freq
plaster (4) - 14 freq
astir (4) - 1 freq
astaire (4) - 1 freq
ulster (4) - 420 freq
lister (4) - 6 freq
aaltir (4) - 1 freq
aaltar (4) - 2 freq
stair (4) - 176 freq
elastic (4) - 16 freq
upstair (4) - 5 freq
i'stair (4) - 4 freq
laetir (4) - 2 freq
blaster (4) - 3 freq
listit (5) - 7 freq
waster (5) - 13 freq
tastier (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - A423
alice'd - 2 freq
alicht - 14 freq
alist - 2 freq
aalest - 4 freq
alistair - 22 freq
alasdair - 19 freq
alligators - 1 freq
aulest - 7 freq
alsatian - 2 freq
alloucd - 1 freq
allwight - 2 freq
awlwight - 1 freq
alleged - 2 freq
aul'est - 1 freq
alsatians - 2 freq
alligator - 3 freq
aye-lestand - 1 freq
alcudia - 1 freq
aul-style - 1 freq
alasdair's - 1 freq
alistair's - 6 freq
alastair - 10 freq
alichts - 1 freq
alight - 3 freq
aðalsteinn - 2 freq
allocatin - 1 freq
aye-lestin - 1 freq
allgitdee - 1 freq
allister - 1 freq
ayelestan - 4 freq
allocated - 1 freq
alister - 1 freq
alset - 1 freq
allest - 1 freq
allegations - 1 freq
allocate - 2 freq
alisdair - 1 freq
ayelestin - 1 freq
alasdairfraser - 1 freq
alcatraz's - 1 freq
allstars - 1 freq
alexdi - 2 freq
alistairjegray - 1 freq
alastairmci - 4 freq
alasdairsampso - 2 freq
alasdairstephen - 1 freq
alextonemusic - 1 freq
alexwtorrance - 1 freq
alastairbishop - 1 freq
alextomo - 1 freq
alextually - 1 freq
alisterwhite - 6 freq
alastairdalton - 1 freq
alcatraz - 1 freq
alasdairallan - 5 freq
alasdairmcintyr - 1 freq
alastairforsyth - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - ALSTR
alistair - 22 freq
alasdair - 19 freq
alastair - 10 freq
allister - 1 freq
alister - 1 freq
alisdair - 1 freq
ALASTAIR
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.365922 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 - 0.383913 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 - 0.035742 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 - 0.037056 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 - 0.000874 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.