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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to literature in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
literature (0) - 94 freq
literature' (1) - 3 freq
leiterature (1) - 12 freq
literatures (1) - 2 freq
literate (2) - 9 freq
leiteratur (2) - 21 freq
leeterature (2) - 15 freq
literar (3) - 3 freq
liberate (3) - 3 freq
literati (3) - 3 freq
leiterate (3) - 1 freq
leitratur (3) - 5 freq
literarie (3) - 1 freq
leeter-ature (3) - 1 freq
leeteratur (3) - 21 freq
literary (3) - 63 freq
liberators (3) - 1 freq
litigator (4) - 1 freq
miniature (4) - 7 freq
premature (4) - 7 freq
feature (4) - 42 freq
illiterate (4) - 3 freq
literacies (4) - 1 freq
lit'rary (4) - 1 freq
stature (4) - 7 freq
literature (0) - 94 freq
leiterature (1) - 12 freq
leiteratur (2) - 21 freq
leeterature (2) - 15 freq
literatures (2) - 2 freq
literature' (2) - 3 freq
leitratur (3) - 5 freq
leeteratur (3) - 21 freq
literate (3) - 9 freq
literary (4) - 63 freq
leetratur (4) - 6 freq
literarie (4) - 1 freq
leeter-ature (4) - 1 freq
literati (4) - 3 freq
literar (4) - 3 freq
leiterate (4) - 1 freq
leeterate (5) - 9 freq
torture (5) - 21 freq
leiterairie (5) - 1 freq
leiterary (5) - 3 freq
liberators (5) - 1 freq
leitratrur (5) - 1 freq
leiterarie (5) - 43 freq
litigator (5) - 1 freq
liberate (5) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - L363
leather't - 1 freq
leiterate - 1 freq
leiteratur - 21 freq
leathered - 4 freq
littered - 9 freq
literature - 94 freq
leeteratur - 21 freq
literate - 9 freq
loitered - 1 freq
leeterature - 15 freq
leeterate - 9 freq
latter-day - 1 freq
leathert - 1 freq
ïll-traitit - 1 freq
leeter-ature - 1 freq
laddert - 1 freq
leetratur - 6 freq
lettert - 8 freq
literature' - 3 freq
looderit - 1 freq
leiterature - 12 freq
leitratur - 5 freq
leitratrur - 1 freq
letterit - 1 freq
literati - 3 freq
literatureinlearning - 1 freq
leeterati - 1 freq
leeterature's - 1 freq
literatures - 2 freq
líterate - 1 freq
letterheids - 1 freq
lydiareidyes - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - LTRTR
leiteratur - 21 freq
literature - 94 freq
leeteratur - 21 freq
leeterature - 15 freq
leeter-ature - 1 freq
leetratur - 6 freq
literature' - 3 freq
leiterature - 12 freq
leitratur - 5 freq
LITERATURE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.194142 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 - 0.338162 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 - 0.027278 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 - 0.037508 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 - 0.000881 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.