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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to diddle in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
diddle (0) - 14 freq
middle (1) - 491 freq
tiddle (1) - 1 freq
fiddle (1) - 52 freq
diddly (1) - 1 freq
riddle (1) - 32 freq
diddled (1) - 2 freq
hiddle (1) - 10 freq
diddie (1) - 2 freq
liddle (1) - 1 freq
piddle (1) - 3 freq
doddle (1) - 4 freq
kindle (2) - 4 freq
skiddle (2) - 1 freq
griddle (2) - 11 freq
didnae (2) - 1656 freq
middles (2) - 1 freq
tiddler (2) - 2 freq
hiddlie (2) - 5 freq
hoddle (2) - 1 freq
tiddles (2) - 8 freq
kiddie (2) - 1 freq
daadle (2) - 1 freq
didne (2) - 1 freq
tiddly (2) - 1 freq
diddle (0) - 14 freq
diddly (1) - 1 freq
doddle (1) - 4 freq
diddie (2) - 2 freq
hiddle (2) - 10 freq
liddle (2) - 1 freq
piddle (2) - 3 freq
middle (2) - 491 freq
diddled (2) - 2 freq
tiddle (2) - 1 freq
fiddle (2) - 52 freq
riddle (2) - 32 freq
doddie (3) - 4 freq
cuddle (3) - 25 freq
diddy (3) - 5 freq
doddles (3) - 2 freq
guddle (3) - 34 freq
diddys (3) - 1 freq
diddlin (3) - 2 freq
coddle (3) - 1 freq
doodle (3) - 10 freq
middly (3) - 3 freq
deedle (3) - 2 freq
toddle (3) - 3 freq
mddle (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - D340
daithlie - 1 freq
doddle - 4 freq
daidle - 2 freq
detail - 42 freq
daudle - 1 freq
dau-dle - 1 freq
deadly - 18 freq
deidly - 19 freq
doodle - 10 freq
'deadly - 1 freq
daithly - 3 freq
dottle - 1 freq
deathly - 2 freq
dwadle - 1 freq
dawdle - 10 freq
deedly - 2 freq
dettol - 1 freq
deidlie - 7 freq
daadle - 1 freq
dad'll - 2 freq
deithly - 1 freq
dat'll - 10 freq
diddle - 14 freq
deedlie - 1 freq
deedle - 2 freq
detdlie - 1 freq
dudley - 11 freq
d'italia - 1 freq
diddly - 1 freq
dat’ll - 2 freq
dettel - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TTL
doddle - 4 freq
totally - 117 freq
toatlly - 1 freq
total - 96 freq
daidle - 2 freq
detail - 42 freq
daudle - 1 freq
dau-dle - 1 freq
title - 64 freq
deadly - 18 freq
deidly - 19 freq
teetle - 10 freq
doodle - 10 freq
'deadly - 1 freq
dtll - 1 freq
tattle - 3 freq
dottle - 1 freq
toodle - 2 freq
toddle - 3 freq
tidal - 9 freq
dawdle - 10 freq
deedly - 2 freq
tottle - 1 freq
dettol - 1 freq
deidlie - 7 freq
tetley - 1 freq
daadle - 1 freq
tootle - 1 freq
dad'll - 2 freq
dat'll - 10 freq
title' - 1 freq
tiddely - 11 freq
'tiddely - 2 freq
diddle - 14 freq
tod'll - 1 freq
'total - 1 freq
deedlie - 1 freq
deedle - 2 freq
dudley - 11 freq
teitil - 6 freq
tiddle - 1 freq
d'italia - 1 freq
tidily - 1 freq
totallie - 1 freq
tiddly - 1 freq
totalee - 1 freq
taitl - 1 freq
diddly - 1 freq
dat’ll - 2 freq
totalleo - 1 freq
toodleoo - 1 freq
dettel - 1 freq
DIDDLE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.197235 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 - 0.488924 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 - 0.028003 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 - 0.071496 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 - 0.000847 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.