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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to em in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
em (0) - 354 freq
es (1) - 798 freq
rem (1) - 2 freq
lem (1) - 5 freq
cm (1) - 13 freq
el (1) - 25 freq
sm (1) - 4 freq
en (1) - 617 freq
eam (1) - 7 freq
qm (1) - 1 freq
om (1) - 6 freq
wm (1) - 12 freq
eu (1) - 126 freq
pm (1) - 124 freq
gm (1) - 10 freq
aem (1) - 1 freq
ec (1) - 18 freq
ea (1) - 4 freq
eq (1) - 1 freq
zm (1) - 1 freq
hm (1) - 12 freq
ev (1) - 3 freq
eo (1) - 6 freq
nem (1) - 51 freq
'em (1) - 43 freq
em (0) - 354 freq
am (1) - 1527 freq
aem (1) - 1 freq
eum (1) - 1 freq
um (1) - 142 freq
m (1) - 847 freq
om (1) - 6 freq
emo (1) - 3 freq
eme (1) - 1 freq
im (1) - 370 freq
eam (1) - 7 freq
ym (1) - 2 freq
gem (2) - 23 freq
bem (2) - 1 freq
xm (2) - 1 freq
vem (2) - 1 freq
ume (2) - 2 freq
iym (2) - 2 freq
mo (2) - 32 freq
et (2) - 256 freq
oma (2) - 81 freq
ew (2) - 5 freq
ek (2) - 3 freq
eb (2) - 6 freq
vm (2) - 11 freq
SoundEx code - E500
een - 2839 freq
eyn - 137 freq
e'en - 187 freq
enn - 36 freq
eannae - 5 freq
een-a - 1 freq
en - 617 freq
eenou - 14 freq
eenow - 1 freq
emma - 42 freq
ein - 86 freq
eein - 6 freq
ean - 46 freq
eam - 7 freq
em - 354 freq
ehhm - 1 freq
enow - 5 freq
en' - 5 freq
ena - 16 freq
ene - 40 freq
'een - 3 freq
eanoo - 3 freq
eon - 3 freq
eme - 1 freq
een' - 3 freq
'ehm - 1 freq
'e'en - 2 freq
eno - 9 freq
enna - 11 freq
enno - 6 freq
emoe - 1 freq
'en - 26 freq
eh'm - 5 freq
ee'n - 1 freq
'em - 43 freq
ewan - 17 freq
eame - 1 freq
eum - 1 freq
ennui - 1 freq
emm - 6 freq
emmm - 2 freq
en'o - 2 freq
enow' - 2 freq
enoo - 8 freq
enew - 2 freq
eenoo - 57 freq
emo - 3 freq
eyein - 3 freq
eannie - 1 freq
ewin - 1 freq
eyan - 1 freq
eny - 7 freq
eino - 1 freq
-een - 1 freq
-en - 2 freq
'een' - 1 freq
enyow - 2 freq
euan - 3 freq
enou - 1 freq
eien - 1 freq
en - 165 freq
eynoo - 3 freq
eenie - 4 freq
eenno - 1 freq
eon - 2 freq
ewen - 7 freq
eneueh - 2 freq
een - 1 freq
en - 2 freq
em - 2 freq
eyne - 4 freq
een- - 1 freq
eyin - 1 freq
em - 2 freq
een - 1 freq
‘em - 9 freq
e’en - 3 freq
eoin - 9 freq
‘en - 3 freq
ehnn - 1 freq
en’a - 1 freq
en'a - 1 freq
e'noo - 2 freq
enh - 1 freq
eine - 1 freq
eenuy - 1 freq
e’en” - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - EM
emma - 42 freq
eam - 7 freq
em - 354 freq
ehhm - 1 freq
eme - 1 freq
'ehm - 1 freq
emoe - 1 freq
eh'm - 5 freq
'em - 43 freq
eame - 1 freq
eum - 1 freq
emm - 6 freq
emmm - 2 freq
emo - 3 freq
em - 2 freq
em - 2 freq
aem - 1 freq
‘em - 9 freq
EM
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.180336 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 - 0.303059 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 - 0.028369 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 - 0.037424 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 - 0.000830 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.