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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to permency in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
permency (0) - 1 freq
tendency (3) - 9 freq
peench (3) - 1 freq
teency (3) - 1 freq
prence (3) - 1 freq
permanence (3) - 1 freq
decency (3) - 10 freq
peyments (3) - 5 freq
leniency (3) - 1 freq
descency (3) - 1 freq
percent (3) - 23 freq
pertenin (3) - 1 freq
emergency (3) - 27 freq
clemency (3) - 2 freq
permeet (3) - 1 freq
perfeck (3) - 26 freq
emerjency (3) - 1 freq
wereny (3) - 2 freq
werenay (3) - 1 freq
perfect (3) - 181 freq
urgency (3) - 9 freq
peyment (3) - 6 freq
pertene (3) - 1 freq
permeate (3) - 1 freq
ferment (3) - 4 freq
permency (0) - 1 freq
prence (4) - 1 freq
permanence (4) - 1 freq
terence (5) - 1 freq
pertend (5) - 1 freq
germany (5) - 36 freq
percy (5) - 8 freq
perfec (5) - 9 freq
pertene (5) - 1 freq
prance (5) - 5 freq
currency (5) - 16 freq
permeate (5) - 1 freq
princey (5) - 1 freq
provence (5) - 1 freq
germanic (5) - 55 freq
prudence (5) - 4 freq
premnay (5) - 1 freq
pretence (5) - 10 freq
peyment (5) - 6 freq
parlance (5) - 2 freq
presence (5) - 69 freq
ferment (5) - 4 freq
clemency (5) - 2 freq
permeet (5) - 1 freq
emergency (5) - 27 freq
SoundEx code - P655
pronunciation - 31 freq
pronunciations - 10 freq
permanent - 30 freq
pronounce - 24 freq
preenin - 8 freq
pronoonceable - 1 freq
perimenopause - 1 freq
promenade - 8 freq
premonition - 7 freq
promenader - 1 freq
pronooncit - 2 freq
permanently - 6 freq
pronoonce - 12 freq
prunin - 2 freq
premium - 2 freq
pronooncements - 1 freq
preanin - 1 freq
pronounce''t - 1 freq
prominent - 9 freq
pronounced - 29 freq
preenin' - 1 freq
pronunced - 3 freq
pronouns - 42 freq
pronoun - 23 freq
paranems - 1 freq
pronuncin - 2 freq
premonitions - 2 freq
permanant - 1 freq
pornounciation - 1 freq
pernyim - 1 freq
pre-eminent - 1 freq
pronominal - 1 freq
pronouncit - 2 freq
pronunciatioun - 1 freq
pronunciâtion - 1 freq
permament - 1 freq
pronuncement - 1 freq
pronoonciation - 15 freq
pronoon - 6 freq
pronoonced - 4 freq
promontory - 2 freq
pronouncin - 1 freq
pronunciaetion - 1 freq
pronunciaetions - 1 freq
primming - 1 freq
prominence - 1 freq
permency - 1 freq
permanence - 1 freq
pronooncin - 4 freq
perineum - 2 freq
pronoons - 3 freq
pronunseeaeshins - 1 freq
preeemium - 1 freq
paramountabdn - 1 freq
pronounciation - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - PRMNS
permency - 1 freq
PERMENCY
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.341279 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 - 0.675086 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 - 0.030192 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 - 0.071234 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 - 0.001017 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.