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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to section in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
section (0) - 78 freq
sectioun (1) - 7 freq
ection (1) - 16 freq
sections (1) - 15 freq
csection (1) - 1 freq
sectioned (2) - 2 freq
settin (2) - 144 freq
seatin (2) - 4 freq
session (2) - 82 freq
seduction (2) - 2 freq
selection (2) - 28 freq
diction (2) - 9 freq
asectin (2) - 1 freq
feiction (2) - 2 freq
sanction (2) - 4 freq
sedition (2) - 7 freq
action (2) - 138 freq
fiction (2) - 30 freq
unction (2) - 1 freq
sechin (2) - 2 freq
inection (2) - 3 freq
faction (2) - 3 freq
ectin (2) - 1 freq
ections (2) - 13 freq
election (2) - 87 freq
section (0) - 78 freq
sectioun (1) - 7 freq
asectin (2) - 1 freq
csection (2) - 1 freq
sections (2) - 15 freq
ection (2) - 16 freq
station (3) - 143 freq
sechtin (3) - 1 freq
secin (3) - 1 freq
election (3) - 87 freq
seton (3) - 18 freq
feection (3) - 2 freq
ruction (3) - 1 freq
secretion (3) - 2 freq
seaton (3) - 3 freq
sextin (3) - 1 freq
sector (3) - 101 freq
paction (3) - 18 freq
erection (3) - 3 freq
ectin (3) - 1 freq
reaction (3) - 51 freq
auction (3) - 3 freq
selection (3) - 28 freq
diction (3) - 9 freq
feiction (3) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - S235
saxteen - 25 freq
sixteenth - 9 freq
sestina - 2 freq
sixteen - 44 freq
sistimus - 1 freq
system - 188 freq
section - 78 freq
sichtin - 4 freq
saxteenth - 6 freq
'sixteen' - 1 freq
systems - 19 freq
sustained - 9 freq
sections - 15 freq
sustainable - 11 freq
system's - 3 freq
sixteen-yearauld - 1 freq
saughton - 10 freq
'sixteen - 1 freq
seeck-time - 2 freq
succeedin - 2 freq
sustinance - 1 freq
saxteen's - 1 freq
shakkie-doon - 1 freq
sixty-nine - 2 freq
systematic - 10 freq
sixteent - 3 freq
seistem - 27 freq
sistem - 1 freq
sectioned - 2 freq
sighteens - 1 freq
sustain - 5 freq
systen - 1 freq
sustainin - 1 freq
sictimmer - 1 freq
sustainability - 4 freq
sustainin' - 1 freq
seistym - 1 freq
sections'll - 1 freq
section'll - 2 freq
shastin - 1 freq
saxteent - 4 freq
sectioun - 7 freq
systematically - 3 freq
saughtonhall - 2 freq
seestems - 7 freq
seestem - 35 freq
seestem's - 1 freq
systematic-like - 1 freq
sixth-haun - 1 freq
sechtin - 1 freq
seistems - 5 freq
sightin - 4 freq
sustentatioun - 1 freq
sichtins - 1 freq
sichtings - 10 freq
sichting - 1 freq
sustenance - 2 freq
sightings - 1 freq
susteen - 1 freq
seestematically - 1 freq
suzidian - 2 freq
skishdma - 1 freq
saughtons - 22 freq
sustaining - 1 freq
sextin - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SKXN
skeichen - 2 freq
section - 78 freq
scooshin - 1 freq
squaashin - 2 freq
sketchin - 3 freq
squashin - 2 freq
squishin - 1 freq
skooshin - 8 freq
sketchan - 1 freq
squaichin - 1 freq
sectioun - 7 freq
scutchin - 1 freq
seickshuin - 1 freq
skeitchin - 1 freq
skechin - 1 freq
SECTION
section - 78 freq
sections - 15 freq
sectioned - 2 freq
sectioning - freq
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.172732 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 - 0.342630 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 - 0.028548 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 - 0.037369 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 - 0.001127 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.