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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to defects in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
defects (0) - 1 freq
detects (1) - 1 freq
defect (1) - 1 freq
deflects (1) - 1 freq
detect (2) - 5 freq
infects (2) - 1 freq
rejects (2) - 1 freq
defeck (2) - 1 freq
directs (2) - 6 freq
depicts (2) - 2 freq
eefect (2) - 1 freq
defends (2) - 1 freq
deserts (2) - 8 freq
defeat (2) - 30 freq
effects (2) - 23 freq
defences (2) - 5 freq
affects (2) - 10 freq
prefects (2) - 1 freq
reflects (2) - 23 freq
efekts (2) - 1 freq
defers (2) - 1 freq
fects (2) - 5 freq
deflect (2) - 2 freq
resets (3) - 1 freq
leets (3) - 18 freq
defects (0) - 1 freq
defect (2) - 1 freq
deflects (2) - 1 freq
detects (2) - 1 freq
fects (3) - 5 freq
effects (3) - 23 freq
affects (3) - 10 freq
depicts (3) - 2 freq
directs (3) - 6 freq
infects (3) - 1 freq
defers (4) - 1 freq
efekts (4) - 1 freq
'facts (4) - 1 freq
ducts (4) - 4 freq
deficit (4) - 10 freq
facts (4) - 46 freq
deflect (4) - 2 freq
reflects (4) - 23 freq
dialects (4) - 125 freq
prefects (4) - 1 freq
rejects (4) - 1 freq
detect (4) - 5 freq
eefect (4) - 1 freq
defeck (4) - 1 freq
defends (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - D123
deepest - 18 freq
deposit - 6 freq
devastated - 3 freq
dovizdane - 1 freq
devisit - 4 freq
dipicten - 1 freq
deficit - 10 freq
devastation - 4 freq
deposed - 1 freq
devastate - 2 freq
deep-seatit - 1 freq
divestin - 1 freq
defect - 1 freq
depicts - 2 freq
devistatin - 1 freq
deposited - 2 freq
depository - 2 freq
deep-stowed - 1 freq
defects - 1 freq
depictit - 4 freq
dvstit - 1 freq
debased - 1 freq
dovecot - 4 freq
diffused - 2 freq
depiction - 3 freq
depictions - 2 freq
depicted - 1 freq
devastating - 2 freq
depositing - 1 freq
defecting - 2 freq
dubbiest - 1 freq
deep-set - 1 freq
deepcut - 1 freq
devastatit - 1 freq
deposits - 3 freq
devised - 1 freq
difzcidro - 1 freq
dpjhodges - 2 freq
de-facto - 1 freq
dypgt - 1 freq
dipstick - 3 freq
dipsticks - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TFKTS
defects - 1 freq
DEFECTS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.230020 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 - 0.565068 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 - 0.065312 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 - 0.050470 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 - 0.001175 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.