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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to defends in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
defends (0) - 1 freq
defend (1) - 23 freq
depends (1) - 38 freq
defense (2) - 1 freq
deeds (2) - 29 freq
fends (2) - 5 freq
demands (2) - 21 freq
defects (2) - 1 freq
offends (2) - 1 freq
defences (2) - 4 freq
defines (2) - 7 freq
denend (2) - 1 freq
deafens (2) - 1 freq
defendin (2) - 9 freq
legends (2) - 36 freq
defended (2) - 3 freq
depeinds (2) - 1 freq
deen's (2) - 3 freq
depend (2) - 16 freq
defers (2) - 1 freq
defenses (2) - 1 freq
defence (2) - 43 freq
descends (2) - 8 freq
defen (2) - 1 freq
defendit (2) - 2 freq
defends (0) - 1 freq
defend (2) - 23 freq
depends (2) - 38 freq
depeinds (3) - 1 freq
defendin (3) - 9 freq
defended (3) - 3 freq
defenses (3) - 1 freq
defenders (3) - 8 freq
defender (3) - 5 freq
defendit (3) - 2 freq
deafens (3) - 1 freq
offends (3) - 1 freq
fends (3) - 5 freq
demands (3) - 21 freq
defense (3) - 1 freq
defences (3) - 4 freq
defines (3) - 7 freq
demaands (4) - 3 freq
demaunds (4) - 1 freq
funds (4) - 23 freq
finds (4) - 35 freq
fiends (4) - 2 freq
defined (4) - 21 freq
fonds (4) - 1 freq
defen (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - D153
definitely - 117 freq
depends - 38 freq
definite - 19 freq
definiteive - 1 freq
defineition - 2 freq
defiant - 11 freq
defended - 3 freq
dependin - 26 freq
definition - 30 freq
divinity - 2 freq
depend - 16 freq
defendin - 9 freq
depended - 5 freq
defend - 23 freq
defending - 5 freq
defined - 21 freq
definitive - 8 freq
defiantly - 7 freq
dependency - 2 freq
defenders - 8 freq
defendit - 2 freq
defineetion - 9 freq
dependit - 10 freq
dabhand - 1 freq
'definately - 1 freq
definietely - 1 freq
defends - 1 freq
divn't - 4 freq
dependable - 1 freq
defamed - 1 freq
defineetions - 1 freq
devined - 1 freq
dependent - 5 freq
depeindin - 1 freq
depeinds - 1 freq
dowp-end - 2 freq
dowpend - 1 freq
defender - 5 freq
depending - 6 freq
defineitiouns - 1 freq
definitions - 5 freq
€”depend - 1 freq
deepened - 2 freq
definit - 3 freq
defamatory - 1 freq
defendouris - 1 freq
defendent - 1 freq
defin-ately - 1 freq
divent - 1 freq
deviant - 1 freq
daub-haund - 1 freq
definitly - 1 freq
deviants - 1 freq
definet - 1 freq
dependan - 2 freq
€˜deviant - 1 freq
div'nt - 1 freq
dependin' - 1 freq
davemitch - 6 freq
defintootly - 1 freq
dépends - 1 freq
dependinÂ’ - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TFNTS
defends - 1 freq
deviants - 1 freq
DEFENDS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.239035 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 - 0.385484 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 - 0.027227 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 - 0.036943 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 - 0.000855 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.