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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to afraid in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
afraid (0) - 44 freq
fraid (1) - 3 freq
affraid (1) - 1 freq
abraid (1) - 11 freq
arid (2) - 4 freq
praid (2) - 1 freq
frail (2) - 18 freq
aaid (2) - 2 freq
raid (2) - 25 freq
affair (2) - 36 freq
traid (2) - 3 freq
acrid (2) - 1 freq
fraud (2) - 5 freq
fraed (2) - 1 freq
'braid (2) - 1 freq
unafraid (2) - 1 freq
braid (2) - 254 freq
abreid (2) - 12 freq
afric (2) - 1 freq
flail (3) - 5 freq
breid (3) - 225 freq
agreed (3) - 106 freq
afresh (3) - 1 freq
arabia (3) - 3 freq
asail (3) - 1 freq
afraid (0) - 44 freq
fraid (1) - 3 freq
fraud (2) - 5 freq
affraid (2) - 1 freq
fraed (2) - 1 freq
abraid (2) - 11 freq
afric (3) - 1 freq
fried (3) - 33 freq
froad (3) - 4 freq
feard (3) - 1 freq
afoord (3) - 3 freq
frayed (3) - 2 freq
freida (3) - 1 freq
abreid (3) - 12 freq
fred (3) - 26 freq
fradi (3) - 1 freq
unafraid (3) - 1 freq
freed (3) - 13 freq
raid (3) - 25 freq
frail (3) - 18 freq
praid (3) - 1 freq
arid (3) - 4 freq
braid (3) - 254 freq
freud (3) - 1 freq
faird (3) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - A163
apairt - 197 freq
appeared - 134 freq
aiberdeenshire - 47 freq
appeart - 80 freq
afford - 84 freq
afeart - 15 freq
abuird - 12 freq
apairtment - 3 freq
apart - 113 freq
aboard - 21 freq
aberdeen - 111 freq
aiberdeen - 261 freq
afraid - 44 freq
aboord - 31 freq
apeart - 1 freq
aperrt - 1 freq
aibirdeen - 1 freq
aiberdeen's - 6 freq
aberdour - 9 freq
abroad - 34 freq
appearit - 5 freq
appairt - 5 freq
approtchen - 1 freq
afoord - 3 freq
abort - 3 freq
appeert - 2 freq
abaird - 1 freq
averred - 1 freq
abraid - 11 freq
abreid - 12 freq
apartment - 6 freq
apartmint - 3 freq
affordable - 6 freq
apartheid - 7 freq
apert - 12 freq
aberdeenshire - 40 freq
aberdonian - 10 freq
aiberdonians - 2 freq
aiberdonians' - 1 freq
aiberdonian - 1 freq
apparition - 3 freq
apartment's - 1 freq
aperitif - 2 freq
aipward - 1 freq
abridged - 1 freq
'afford - 1 freq
affoord - 1 freq
affoard - 3 freq
affordit - 3 freq
affroad - 1 freq
apaert - 2 freq
'abuird - 1 freq
aforethought' - 1 freq
abortit - 2 freq
aberration - 2 freq
affuird - 5 freq
apparitioun - 1 freq
apairt' - 1 freq
aiberdene - 1 freq
affröd - 1 freq
affrödet - 1 freq
abreed - 5 freq
appareition - 1 freq
€˜apairt - 1 freq
afforded - 2 freq
aiberdeen-awa - 4 freq
apairtments - 2 freq
aborted - 1 freq
aiberdour - 5 freq
aiberdein - 3 freq
aberdeenshire's - 2 freq
apparitions - 2 freq
apperit - 3 freq
affraid - 1 freq
apertures - 1 freq
€˜aberdeen - 1 freq
appairtment - 1 freq
apartments - 2 freq
appert - 1 freq
avertin - 1 freq
apportion - 1 freq
averts - 1 freq
approtch - 2 freq
apparatus - 2 freq
aphrodite - 20 freq
€œaphrodite - 2 freq
aboorit - 1 freq
abrade - 1 freq
abortifacients - 1 freq
abortions - 1 freq
apportioned - 1 freq
'aberdeen - 1 freq
aberdeenfc - 169 freq
aberdeenfcnews - 1 freq
aberdeenmad - 2 freq
aberdeencc - 16 freq
a'iberdeen - 1 freq
aberdonians - 4 freq
aberdeenÂ’s - 1 freq
aberdeenleopard - 1 freq
aiberdeinquine - 5 freq
aberdeenfanpage - 1 freq
aberdeenfcslo - 12 freq
aberdeentaxi - 24 freq
aiberdeenquine - 18 freq
aberdeencity - 4 freq
aberdeenfcpins - 7 freq
aberdeenwomen - 1 freq
aberdeenanalys - 1 freq
aberdeenstadium - 1 freq
aiberdeenÂ’s - 1 freq
aberdeenfcyouth - 1 freq
aberdeenskipper - 1 freq
aberdinho - 1 freq
aberdeenwarbot - 1 freq
aberdeenuni - 3 freq
aberdein - 1 freq
aberdeenfoodies - 8 freq
aberdeencouncil - 1 freq
aiberden - 1 freq
'aiberdeen' - 1 freq
aberdeen's - 1 freq
aiberdeeeen - 1 freq
aiberdeeeeeeeeen - 1 freq
aberdeebshire - 1 freq
aiburdeenshire - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - AFRT
afford - 84 freq
afeart - 15 freq
afraid - 44 freq
afoord - 3 freq
averred - 1 freq
'afford - 1 freq
affoord - 1 freq
affoard - 3 freq
affroad - 1 freq
affuird - 5 freq
affröd - 1 freq
affraid - 1 freq
AFRAID
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.202131 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 - 0.372196 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 - 0.028593 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 - 0.037081 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 - 0.000835 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.