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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to activities in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
activities (0) - 49 freq
actvities (1) - 1 freq
acteivities (1) - 8 freq
activities' (1) - 1 freq
nativities (2) - 1 freq
acteivitie (2) - 2 freq
acteevities (2) - 5 freq
abilities (3) - 6 freq
autorities (3) - 2 freq
activists (3) - 32 freq
cavities (3) - 1 freq
acteevitie (3) - 1 freq
activate (3) - 2 freq
facilities (3) - 22 freq
faceilities (3) - 2 freq
affinities (3) - 3 freq
festivities (3) - 2 freq
futilities (3) - 1 freq
activity (3) - 30 freq
antiquities (3) - 3 freq
abeilities (3) - 2 freq
antibiotics (4) - 7 freq
activism (4) - 5 freq
atrocities (4) - 3 freq
charities (4) - 4 freq
activities (0) - 49 freq
acteivities (1) - 8 freq
actvities (1) - 1 freq
acteevities (2) - 5 freq
activities' (2) - 1 freq
nativities (3) - 1 freq
acteivitie (3) - 2 freq
acteevitie (4) - 1 freq
activate (4) - 2 freq
cavities (4) - 1 freq
activity (4) - 30 freq
activists (4) - 32 freq
futilities (5) - 1 freq
activeests (5) - 1 freq
captivates (5) - 1 freq
antiquities (5) - 3 freq
festivities (5) - 2 freq
autorities (5) - 2 freq
casuities (6) - 1 freq
activists' (6) - 1 freq
cairties (6) - 1 freq
catties (6) - 3 freq
titties (6) - 1 freq
aichties (6) - 1 freq
acteevity (6) - 7 freq
SoundEx code - A231
astabillit - 1 freq
active - 33 freq
activities - 49 freq
activists - 32 freq
aichty-fower - 1 freq
asteep - 2 freq
acteevity - 7 freq
acteevities - 5 freq
agit-prop - 1 freq
actively - 14 freq
activists' - 1 freq
activate - 2 freq
acteevitie - 1 freq
activities' - 1 freq
auchty-fower - 1 freq
activity - 30 freq
a'wistfil - 1 freq
acteivities - 8 freq
activist - 12 freq
acteivitie - 2 freq
acteive - 1 freq
actívity - 1 freq
activism - 5 freq
acteevists - 1 freq
activeests - 1 freq
acteeve - 1 freq
aist-bye - 1 freq
axutb - 1 freq
aqdp - 1 freq
“activist - 1 freq
aktdf - 1 freq
actvities - 1 freq
'activists' - 1 freq
activeschoolssa - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - AKTFTS
activities - 49 freq
acteevities - 5 freq
activities' - 1 freq
acteivities - 8 freq
actvities - 1 freq
ACTIVITIES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.295051 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 - 0.505127 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 - 0.027904 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 - 0.072222 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 - 0.000876 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.