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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to silence in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
silence (0) - 265 freq
zilence (1) - 1 freq
seilence (1) - 6 freq
'silence (1) - 1 freq
silences (1) - 3 freq
silencer (1) - 1 freq
silence- (1) - 1 freq
scilence (1) - 1 freq
silenced (1) - 7 freq
glence (2) - 4 freq
licence (2) - 29 freq
science (2) - 76 freq
since (2) - 561 freq
sellence (2) - 1 freq
silencin (2) - 3 freq
silent (2) - 140 freq
sileage (2) - 1 freq
sixpence (2) - 7 freq
seelence (2) - 67 freq
violence (2) - 37 freq
spence (2) - 35 freq
sclance (2) - 1 freq
sílence (2) - 6 freq
sence (2) - 1 freq
scance (3) - 31 freq
silence (0) - 265 freq
seilence (1) - 6 freq
silenced (2) - 7 freq
seelence (2) - 67 freq
silence- (2) - 1 freq
scilence (2) - 1 freq
silencer (2) - 1 freq
'silence (2) - 1 freq
silences (2) - 3 freq
zilence (2) - 1 freq
violence (3) - 37 freq
sclance (3) - 1 freq
seelance (3) - 1 freq
silent (3) - 140 freq
sence (3) - 1 freq
spence (3) - 35 freq
glence (3) - 4 freq
since (3) - 561 freq
sellence (3) - 1 freq
science (3) - 76 freq
silencin (3) - 3 freq
sequence (4) - 7 freq
scunce (4) - 6 freq
balance (4) - 50 freq
sconce (4) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - S452
silence - 265 freq
slammach - 1 freq
slung - 14 freq
s'long - 1 freq
shillins - 18 freq
seelence - 67 freq
shullans - 1 freq
sclims - 10 freq
skalla-magnus - 6 freq
skalla-magnus's - 1 freq
solans - 3 freq
seelenced - 1 freq
sea-lions - 4 freq
scuil-maik - 1 freq
slounged - 1 freq
skillweans - 1 freq
silenced - 7 freq
slams - 12 freq
slang - 62 freq
slaeness - 1 freq
slingin - 4 freq
seelences - 1 freq
selling - 10 freq
slain's - 1 freq
shilling - 3 freq
slaimish - 3 freq
slunky - 2 freq
slunk - 8 freq
slinoush - 1 freq
'silence - 1 freq
salinger - 1 freq
shale-wings - 1 freq
slammachs - 1 freq
skellums - 2 freq
slonks - 3 freq
silencin - 3 freq
silences - 3 freq
slong's - 2 freq
sling - 7 freq
slums - 8 freq
sloonge - 1 freq
schuilmaister - 3 freq
shillans - 2 freq
saileens - 1 freq
scallions - 1 freq
skailin-gates - 25 freq
sclunshed - 1 freq
seilens - 2 freq
slingshot - 1 freq
sloonged - 3 freq
slimmest - 1 freq
shilliens - 1 freq
slings - 2 freq
slinks - 2 freq
slinkan - 1 freq
sehlince - 1 freq
schuilmistress - 1 freq
shieling - 1 freq
slounges - 1 freq
sylinsis - 1 freq
'slang' - 3 freq
slooms - 1 freq
slangy - 2 freq
seilence - 6 freq
sellence - 1 freq
sclimms - 1 freq
sloungin - 3 freq
shullins - 1 freq
slinky - 1 freq
slink - 1 freq
saloons - 1 freq
slingers - 1 freq
slang - 1 freq
slang - 1 freq
slangin - 1 freq
sell-eimage - 1 freq
sailing - 6 freq
sloans - 1 freq
seelence - 1 freq
sílence - 6 freq
sealing - 1 freq
skeeliness - 1 freq
slang - 1 freq
schoolmistress - 1 freq
schuilweans - 1 freq
scuilweans - 1 freq
silencer - 1 freq
scilence - 1 freq
shillings - 4 freq
sklims - 1 freq
slounge - 1 freq
seelance - 1 freq
silence- - 1 freq
selliness - 1 freq
skellingtons - 1 freq
sclanced - 2 freq
sclance - 1 freq
sleeness - 1 freq
scuilmaisters - 1 freq
scuilmaister - 1 freq
slowing - 2 freq
schooling - 1 freq
schoolmaister - 2 freq
skailing - 1 freq
shellmccabe - 1 freq
slemish - 1 freq
slains - 1 freq
schilling - 1 freq
slanged - 1 freq
salem's - 1 freq
'sailmaker' - 2 freq
salmcw - 5 freq
solan's - 1 freq
‘slang’ - 2 freq
slang’ - 1 freq
swallowingfeelsweird - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SLNS
silence - 265 freq
seelence - 67 freq
solans - 3 freq
sea-lions - 4 freq
slaeness - 1 freq
ceilins - 8 freq
slain's - 1 freq
'silence - 1 freq
ceilin's - 4 freq
saileens - 1 freq
seilens - 2 freq
sehlince - 1 freq
seilence - 6 freq
sellence - 1 freq
saloons - 1 freq
sloans - 1 freq
seelence - 1 freq
sílence - 6 freq
zilence - 1 freq
scilence - 1 freq
seelance - 1 freq
silence- - 1 freq
selliness - 1 freq
sleeness - 1 freq
slains - 1 freq
solan's - 1 freq
SILENCE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.199341 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 - 0.391610 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 - 0.028056 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 - 0.039014 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 - 0.000859 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.