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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to alter in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
alter (0) - 15 freq
after (1) - 352 freq
walter (1) - 56 freq
aller (1) - 1 freq
halter (1) - 5 freq
anter (1) - 1 freq
altar (1) - 22 freq
alther (1) - 1 freq
aalter (1) - 1 freq
aster (1) - 1 freq
falter (1) - 1 freq
aeter (1) - 1 freq
atter (1) - 1 freq
alder (1) - 1 freq
cler (2) - 1 freq
edter (2) - 1 freq
artery (2) - 2 freq
gleer (2) - 1 freq
dafter (2) - 6 freq
aefter (2) - 4 freq
laeter (2) - 1 freq
aiger (2) - 2 freq
culter (2) - 1 freq
alt (2) - 5 freq
saltet (2) - 1 freq
alter (0) - 15 freq
aalter (1) - 1 freq
altar (1) - 22 freq
laiter (2) - 4 freq
alder (2) - 1 freq
liter (2) - 1 freq
aaltir (2) - 1 freq
later (2) - 550 freq
aaltar (2) - 2 freq
laeter (2) - 1 freq
aeter (2) - 1 freq
atter (2) - 1 freq
aller (2) - 1 freq
walter (2) - 56 freq
after (2) - 352 freq
halter (2) - 5 freq
anter (2) - 1 freq
falter (2) - 1 freq
alther (2) - 1 freq
aster (2) - 1 freq
alterin (3) - 2 freq
alteran (3) - 1 freq
aul'er (3) - 1 freq
enter (3) - 70 freq
naiter (3) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - A436
aulder - 243 freq
alternative - 46 freq
alternatively - 3 freq
aulder'n - 2 freq
altar - 22 freq
altered - 17 freq
alliteration - 5 freq
alternatives - 8 freq
aalder - 24 freq
auld-warld - 2 freq
'aulder - 1 freq
'alternative - 1 freq
alternate - 3 freq
alternately - 1 freq
althar - 5 freq
altars - 2 freq
aaltar - 2 freq
aalter - 1 freq
alder - 1 freq
alter - 15 freq
alterin - 2 freq
alt-arkaeolojist - 1 freq
althered - 4 freq
alther - 1 freq
aaltir - 1 freq
auldearn - 1 freq
alterations - 1 freq
aldersley-williams - 1 freq
alleiterative - 1 freq
altrive - 1 freq
auldrife - 1 freq
alteration - 1 freq
alliterative - 2 freq
altruism - 6 freq
aulder-anes - 2 freq
altruistic - 1 freq
aalternative - 1 freq
aleeteration - 1 freq
alleeteration - 1 freq
'altar' - 1 freq
alluterlie - 1 freq
alteran - 1 freq
auld-warldy - 1 freq
aaldwarld - 1 freq
alternatin - 1 freq
€œalternatin - 1 freq
alternativet - 1 freq
alt-richters - 1 freq
auldearnbadger - 1 freq
alderslowe - 1 freq
alternatecelt - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - ALTR
aulder - 243 freq
altar - 22 freq
aalder - 24 freq
'aulder - 1 freq
aaltar - 2 freq
aalter - 1 freq
alder - 1 freq
alter - 15 freq
aaltir - 1 freq
'altar' - 1 freq
ALTER
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.219160 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 - 0.348391 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 - 0.030531 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 - 0.044305 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 - 0.001304 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.