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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to delights in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
delights (0) - 2 freq
delichts (1) - 7 freq
delight (1) - 33 freq
delightit (2) - 6 freq
flights (2) - 13 freq
delicht (2) - 62 freq
dights (2) - 5 freq
lights (2) - 104 freq
delighted (2) - 37 freq
weights (2) - 3 freq
delightid (2) - 1 freq
heights (2) - 3 freq
danight (3) - 9 freq
eighth (3) - 4 freq
hielichts (3) - 1 freq
eighty (3) - 13 freq
feghts (3) - 1 freq
light (3) - 300 freq
delish (3) - 2 freq
slight (3) - 11 freq
delite (3) - 4 freq
rights (3) - 32 freq
reight (3) - 6 freq
digits (3) - 3 freq
relishes (3) - 1 freq
delights (0) - 2 freq
delight (2) - 33 freq
delichts (2) - 7 freq
delighted (3) - 37 freq
delightid (3) - 1 freq
lights (3) - 104 freq
dights (3) - 5 freq
flights (3) - 13 freq
delightit (3) - 6 freq
daylight's (4) - 1 freq
heidlights (4) - 3 freq
draughts (4) - 3 freq
delegates (4) - 3 freq
weights (4) - 3 freq
daylight (4) - 22 freq
heights (4) - 3 freq
delicht (4) - 62 freq
delichtin (5) - 2 freq
flighty (5) - 3 freq
knights (5) - 1 freq
dichts (5) - 7 freq
lichts (5) - 180 freq
thoights (5) - 1 freq
dight (5) - 3 freq
blighty (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - D423
dialect - 262 freq
dialects - 125 freq
delightit - 6 freq
delight - 33 freq
daylicht - 47 freq
daylight - 22 freq
delicate - 21 freq
delegate - 3 freq
delegation - 7 freq
delicht - 62 freq
delichtit - 18 freq
daylight's - 1 freq
dalkeith - 17 freq
delichtin - 2 freq
dlastin - 1 freq
dialectical - 4 freq
delicat - 5 freq
delighted - 37 freq
dulcet - 3 freq
dialectics - 1 freq
delichts - 7 freq
dialectic - 1 freq
dual-citizenship - 1 freq
delichtet - 1 freq
delichtfu - 3 freq
dialectal - 6 freq
delichted - 9 freq
delightful - 3 freq
dialect' - 2 freq
dilicat - 1 freq
dialectology' - 1 freq
deilichtit - 1 freq
delichtful - 2 freq
dial-steens - 1 freq
dial-steen - 1 freq
dialectologists - 1 freq
delegates - 3 freq
daylycht - 1 freq
delegation's - 1 freq
delict - 1 freq
dialect-specific - 1 freq
dialect-briggin - 1 freq
dialectalised - 1 freq
delights - 2 freq
delicately - 4 freq
delegated - 2 freq
delightid - 1 freq
€˜dialect - 20 freq
day-licht - 1 freq
delegatin - 1 freq
delychtit - 1 freq
daiälekt - 4 freq
daiälekts - 2 freq
delectable - 1 freq
dalgetysusan - 4 freq
‘delighted’ - 1 freq
dallsheed - 1 freq
dialecticution - 2 freq
dialects' - 1 freq
delightfull - 1 freq
dalkeithcfc - 2 freq
dalksthistle - 7 freq
MetaPhone code - TLFTS
daylight's - 1 freq
delights - 2 freq
DELIGHTS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.239868 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 - 0.388963 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 - 0.037412 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 - 0.069156 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 - 0.001317 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.