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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to fechter in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
fechter (0) - 20 freq
fechters (1) - 5 freq
fechted (1) - 1 freq
fechten (1) - 1 freq
fichter (1) - 1 freq
lecher (2) - 1 freq
auchter (2) - 5 freq
dachter (2) - 2 freq
fechts (2) - 31 freq
tuechter (2) - 2 freq
teuchter (2) - 42 freq
lachter (2) - 16 freq
flichter (2) - 12 freq
fechtvn (2) - 1 freq
fechtan (2) - 2 freq
flochter (2) - 9 freq
ficher (2) - 4 freq
dochter (2) - 189 freq
fether (2) - 23 freq
fechty (2) - 2 freq
flachter (2) - 1 freq
fechtin (2) - 160 freq
fester (2) - 16 freq
wechtier (2) - 1 freq
fechtt (2) - 1 freq
fechter (0) - 20 freq
fichter (1) - 1 freq
fechters (2) - 5 freq
fechted (2) - 1 freq
fechten (2) - 1 freq
fechtt (3) - 1 freq
wechtier (3) - 1 freq
feuchters (3) - 1 freq
huchter (3) - 1 freq
flachter (3) - 1 freq
fechtin (3) - 160 freq
fighter (3) - 9 freq
tichter (3) - 11 freq
dichter (3) - 2 freq
fechty (3) - 2 freq
lichter (3) - 8 freq
richter (3) - 3 freq
fecht (3) - 354 freq
teuchter (3) - 42 freq
lachter (3) - 16 freq
fechts (3) - 31 freq
dachter (3) - 2 freq
auchter (3) - 5 freq
flichter (3) - 12 freq
tuechter (3) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - F236
faster - 77 freq
factory - 111 freq
factory' - 2 freq
fighters - 4 freq
foster - 19 freq
fechter - 20 freq
fechters - 5 freq
fighter - 9 freq
fester - 16 freq
feuchters - 1 freq
factories - 12 freq
fisther - 1 freq
fectorie - 1 freq
fectory - 6 freq
fosterer - 3 freq
festerin - 5 freq
faister - 16 freq
factery - 1 freq
factor - 31 freq
fosterit - 1 freq
feexturs - 4 freq
foxtrot - 2 freq
factory's - 1 freq
'faster - 3 freq
foster's - 1 freq
festers - 1 freq
fig-tree - 3 freq
fixture - 4 freq
festered - 3 freq
factors - 21 freq
faaster - 6 freq
fixtures - 9 freq
fixed-term - 1 freq
faictors - 3 freq
faictor - 3 freq
fechters' - 2 freq
faktories - 1 freq
fistir - 1 freq
factorie - 2 freq
fichterin - 1 freq
faister' - 1 freq
fostirit - 1 freq
fosterin - 2 freq
factort - 1 freq
fostert - 1 freq
fister - 2 freq
fowk-dramas - 1 freq
fichter - 1 freq
fosteringnet - 1 freq
fcctrust - 1 freq
fcxdr - 1 freq
foxtrots - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FXTR
fechter - 20 freq
fichter - 1 freq
FECHTER
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.203993 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 - 0.350603 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 - 0.030138 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 - 0.037161 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 - 0.000857 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.