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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to niebuhr in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
niebuhrs (1) - 2 freq
niebuhr's (2) - 2 freq
neebur (2) - 11 freq
tibur (3) - 2 freq
nibor (3) - 2 freq
nimbus (3) - 1 freq
naewur (3) - 2 freq
naebudy (3) - 2 freq
neebor (3) - 43 freq
nevur (3) - 1 freq
bieber (3) - 1 freq
neeboor (3) - 1 freq
naewahr (3) - 1 freq
neebour (3) - 37 freq
nebir (3) - 1 freq
neeber (3) - 2 freq
nivur (3) - 2 freq
neebir (3) - 13 freq
neeburs (3) - 7 freq
wilbur (3) - 5 freq
neepur (3) - 1 freq
ehhr (4) - 1 freq
naettir (4) - 1 freq
lieu (4) - 2 freq
fiercer (4) - 1 freq
niebuhrs (2) - 2 freq
neebur (3) - 11 freq
neebour (4) - 37 freq
naewahr (4) - 1 freq
nebir (4) - 1 freq
neebir (4) - 13 freq
neeboor (4) - 1 freq
inbhir (4) - 2 freq
neeber (4) - 2 freq
nibor (4) - 2 freq
neebor (4) - 43 freq
niebuhr's (4) - 2 freq
neither (5) - 169 freq
inbhear (5) - 1 freq
bheur (5) - 1 freq
neibor (5) - 3 freq
neibour (5) - 28 freq
neithir (5) - 1 freq
oniewhar (5) - 2 freq
naether (5) - 5 freq
neethur (5) - 2 freq
nibbery (5) - 1 freq
neethir (5) - 3 freq
neebra (5) - 3 freq
naewhur (5) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - N160
never - 1661 freq
niver - 851 freq
nivver - 977 freq
'never - 14 freq
neibour - 28 freq
neepur - 1 freq
neebra - 3 freq
neiper - 6 freq
nivir - 180 freq
'nivver' - 1 freq
neebor - 43 freq
'nivver - 3 freq
nivvir - 27 freq
neeber - 2 freq
nevir - 8 freq
neebur - 11 freq
'niwver - 1 freq
neebour - 37 freq
napper - 36 freq
naipier - 1 freq
nevvir - 32 freq
niwver - 6 freq
nippier - 1 freq
nebir - 1 freq
neebir - 13 freq
'niver - 2 freq
newvir - 6 freq
'nevvir - 1 freq
nhivver - 1 freq
neeper - 5 freq
napier - 25 freq
nivwer - 6 freq
nibor - 2 freq
niffer - 7 freq
'never' - 1 freq
nivur - 2 freq
nabberie - 1 freq
neibor - 3 freq
€˜never - 7 freq
€œnivver - 5 freq
€˜nivver - 3 freq
never-aa - 1 freq
nibbery - 1 freq
€˜niver - 1 freq
€œniver - 5 freq
neeboor - 1 freq
naver - 3 freq
neiver - 1 freq
€œnivir - 3 freq
navir - 2 freq
€œnever - 2 freq
nipper - 1 freq
n'iver - 4 freq
niÂ’ver - 1 freq
nvr - 2 freq
“nivver - 1 freq
nebbery - 1 freq
nevur - 1 freq
nevar - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - NBR
neibour - 28 freq
neebra - 3 freq
neebor - 43 freq
neeber - 2 freq
neebur - 11 freq
neebour - 37 freq
nebir - 1 freq
neebir - 13 freq
nibor - 2 freq
nabberie - 1 freq
neibor - 3 freq
nibbery - 1 freq
neeboor - 1 freq
newburgh - 1 freq
nebbery - 1 freq
NIEBUHR
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.313108 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 - 0.516267 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 - 0.058578 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 - 0.036991 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 - 0.000914 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.