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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to eberdeen in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
eberdeen (0) - 3 freq
aberdeen (1) - 112 freq
aiberdeen (2) - 266 freq
aberdein (2) - 1 freq
eferneen (2) - 1 freq
berween (2) - 1 freq
gaerdeen (2) - 3 freq
'aberdeen (2) - 1 freq
everyeen (2) - 4 freq
bedeen (2) - 1 freq
gerdeen (2) - 10 freq
gerden (3) - 4 freq
everee (3) - 1 freq
estreen (3) - 1 freq
bedein (3) - 2 freq
burden (3) - 24 freq
evergreen (3) - 6 freq
gairdeen (3) - 4 freq
beeteen (3) - 1 freq
beyden (3) - 1 freq
spendeen (3) - 1 freq
aiberden (3) - 1 freq
owergeen (3) - 2 freq
endeen (3) - 3 freq
abeeen (3) - 1 freq
eberdeen (0) - 3 freq
aberdeen (1) - 112 freq
aberdein (2) - 1 freq
aiberdeen (2) - 266 freq
burden (3) - 24 freq
birden (3) - 1 freq
aiberden (3) - 1 freq
gerdeen (3) - 10 freq
aiberdein (3) - 3 freq
bedeen (3) - 1 freq
aibirdeen (3) - 1 freq
gaerdeen (3) - 3 freq
berween (3) - 1 freq
'aberdeen (3) - 1 freq
'burden (4) - 1 freq
verdean (4) - 3 freq
yesaberdeen (4) - 1 freq
bedien (4) - 1 freq
burneen (4) - 2 freq
aiberdeeeen (4) - 1 freq
bryden (4) - 14 freq
aiberdene (4) - 1 freq
boarden (4) - 1 freq
gaerden (4) - 1 freq
a'iberdeen (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - E163
everything - 97 freq
efforts - 50 freq
everythin - 119 freq
everythin's - 3 freq
everytime - 10 freq
effort - 105 freq
everywhaut - 1 freq
everyday - 32 freq
everything's - 3 freq
everday - 2 freq
eupboards - 1 freq
effert - 1 freq
effirt - 3 freq
everything'll - 1 freq
effart - 1 freq
everyday' - 1 freq
ever-decreasing - 1 freq
€œeveryday - 2 freq
effortlessly - 4 freq
everthin - 2 freq
€œeverything - 2 freq
everythin' - 1 freq
€™everything - 1 freq
eberdeen - 3 freq
evertype - 2 freq
everthings - 1 freq
efforts' - 1 freq
everythins - 3 freq
everton - 3 freq
everydaysaschoolday - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - EBRTN
eberdeen - 3 freq
EBERDEEN
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.240631 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 - 0.412467 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 - 0.029432 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 - 0.037209 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 - 0.000880 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.