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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to ledders in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
ledders (0) - 2 freq
ledder's (1) - 1 freq
tedders (1) - 1 freq
fedders (1) - 21 freq
ledgers (1) - 2 freq
ladders (1) - 7 freq
ledder (1) - 23 freq
edders (1) - 1 freq
leaders (1) - 30 freq
leddery (1) - 1 freq
lenders (1) - 1 freq
edder (2) - 21 freq
glidders (2) - 2 freq
leavers (2) - 1 freq
lecters (2) - 1 freq
lender (2) - 2 freq
widders (2) - 2 freq
adders (2) - 1 freq
lepers (2) - 4 freq
feddery (2) - 2 freq
wedder (2) - 3 freq
leddie's (2) - 1 freq
fedder (2) - 36 freq
nedder (2) - 18 freq
leddies (2) - 12 freq
ledders (0) - 2 freq
ladders (1) - 7 freq
edders (2) - 1 freq
lenders (2) - 1 freq
ledder (2) - 23 freq
leddery (2) - 1 freq
leaders (2) - 30 freq
ledgers (2) - 2 freq
ledder's (2) - 1 freq
tedders (2) - 1 freq
fedders (2) - 21 freq
elders (3) - 21 freq
ledars (3) - 1 freq
ladder (3) - 35 freq
leddy's (3) - 2 freq
slidders (3) - 2 freq
midders (3) - 8 freq
ludgers (3) - 4 freq
lodgers (3) - 4 freq
gadders (3) - 4 freq
laddert (3) - 1 freq
idders (3) - 40 freq
landers (3) - 10 freq
fadders (3) - 3 freq
udders (3) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - L362
letters - 142 freq
leaders - 30 freq
ledder's - 1 freq
literacy - 34 freq
luther's - 1 freq
letturs - 3 freq
ladders - 7 freq
leader's - 2 freq
leather's - 1 freq
loiters - 1 freq
leadership - 21 freq
lettérs - 1 freq
lethargic - 1 freq
liturgy - 3 freq
ledders - 2 freq
leeteracy - 15 freq
leeteracies - 2 freq
litres - 3 freq
lettèrs - 7 freq
'letters - 1 freq
lettirs - 1 freq
ledars - 1 freq
leaderschip - 3 freq
lettres - 1 freq
liturgical - 4 freq
letteris - 1 freq
leiteracy - 3 freq
literacies - 1 freq
letter's - 1 freq
lethers - 1 freq
leddrach - 50 freq
leddrach's - 1 freq
leather-jeckets - 1 freq
€˜leaders - 1 freq
leaders-aff - 2 freq
leadersdebate - 1 freq
lethargy - 1 freq
'laters' - 1 freq
laters - 12 freq
literacypkc - 1 freq
lldrkmiuw - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - LTRS
letters - 142 freq
leaders - 30 freq
ledder's - 1 freq
literacy - 34 freq
letturs - 3 freq
ladders - 7 freq
leader's - 2 freq
loiters - 1 freq
lettérs - 1 freq
ledders - 2 freq
leeteracy - 15 freq
litres - 3 freq
lettèrs - 7 freq
'letters - 1 freq
lettirs - 1 freq
ledars - 1 freq
lettres - 1 freq
letteris - 1 freq
leiteracy - 3 freq
letter's - 1 freq
€˜leaders - 1 freq
'laters' - 1 freq
laters - 12 freq
LEDDERS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.230534 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 - 0.386539 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 - 0.027455 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 - 0.037883 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 - 0.000953 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.