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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to derkies in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
derkies (0) - 1 freq
darkies (1) - 2 freq
deukies (1) - 1 freq
derkie (1) - 3 freq
derbies (1) - 2 freq
derknes (1) - 1 freq
derives (2) - 10 freq
darknes (2) - 1 freq
derker (2) - 7 freq
derklins (2) - 2 freq
derkness (2) - 20 freq
porkies (2) - 2 freq
deukiel (2) - 1 freq
dookies (2) - 1 freq
feekies (2) - 2 freq
dyrknes (2) - 1 freq
certies (2) - 17 freq
derkens (2) - 1 freq
herries (2) - 4 freq
ferlies (2) - 61 freq
workies (2) - 1 freq
ferries (2) - 5 freq
denties (2) - 2 freq
deities (2) - 2 freq
series (2) - 89 freq
derkies (0) - 1 freq
darkies (1) - 2 freq
derknes (2) - 1 freq
derbies (2) - 2 freq
deukies (2) - 1 freq
derkie (2) - 3 freq
dinkies (3) - 1 freq
merkis (3) - 2 freq
birkies (3) - 1 freq
markies (3) - 1 freq
dunkies (3) - 1 freq
drakes (3) - 2 freq
derklie (3) - 1 freq
dyeukies (3) - 3 freq
forkies (3) - 1 freq
dries (3) - 8 freq
larkies (3) - 1 freq
dirks (3) - 4 freq
derkest (3) - 2 freq
derken (3) - 1 freq
darkie (3) - 2 freq
dirknes (3) - 1 freq
wirkies (3) - 1 freq
yorkies (3) - 1 freq
porkies (3) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - D622
dresses - 18 freq
door-cheek - 3 freq
darkest - 16 freq
dairkest - 3 freq
derkest - 2 freq
darkish - 1 freq
daurkest - 5 freq
druggies - 1 freq
drakes - 2 freq
door-cheek's - 1 freq
driechest - 2 freq
door-chik - 1 freq
darkies - 2 freq
dreichest - 2 freq
derkies - 1 freq
dirges - 1 freq
dregies - 1 freq
dreich-as-cauld-parritch - 1 freq
durexuk - 1 freq
drkkhgagrj - 1 freq
doricocd - 1 freq
derekweston - 5 freq
drxuaywz - 1 freq
darcyoake - 2 freq
drjoshuawolrich - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TRKS
traiks - 4 freq
tricks - 39 freq
draigs - 1 freq
tracks - 49 freq
dregs - 13 freq
'drugs - 1 freq
turks - 4 freq
drugs - 56 freq
trackies - 8 freq
trecks - 1 freq
turquoise - 5 freq
drags - 8 freq
druggies - 1 freq
doric's - 5 freq
dargs - 4 freq
trucks - 11 freq
turkeys - 3 freq
turkey's - 1 freq
trokes - 1 freq
t-rex - 1 freq
drakes - 2 freq
dirks - 4 freq
tirgs - 1 freq
torquoise - 1 freq
dark's - 1 freq
drogs - 2 freq
darkies - 2 freq
derek's - 1 freq
drougs - 8 freq
derkies - 1 freq
trixie - 4 freq
drouks - 1 freq
tricksy - 1 freq
dorics - 2 freq
traxxy - 1 freq
trax - 10 freq
tirricks - 5 freq
drqs - 1 freq
DERKIES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.231006 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 - 0.759151 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 - 0.079402 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 - 0.092316 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 - 0.001148 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.