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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to biography in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
biography (0) - 7 freq
biographie (2) - 3 freq
geography (2) - 37 freq
biographer (2) - 2 freq
digraph (3) - 3 freq
demography (3) - 4 freq
geograph (3) - 2 freq
'geography (3) - 1 freq
hagiography (3) - 1 freq
digraphs (3) - 4 freq
bibliography (3) - 3 freq
seaography (3) - 6 freq
topography (3) - 2 freq
photography (4) - 6 freq
autobiography (4) - 2 freq
biographical (4) - 5 freq
graph (4) - 4 freq
biglarry (4) - 1 freq
bxageography (4) - 4 freq
geographic (4) - 4 freq
brashy (4) - 1 freq
bourach (4) - 36 freq
geographer (4) - 23 freq
lithograph (4) - 1 freq
orthography (4) - 50 freq
biography (0) - 7 freq
biographie (2) - 3 freq
biographer (3) - 2 freq
geography (3) - 37 freq
geograph (4) - 2 freq
seaography (4) - 6 freq
digraph (4) - 3 freq
topography (5) - 2 freq
autobiography (5) - 2 freq
graph (5) - 4 freq
autograph (5) - 1 freq
geographie (5) - 2 freq
bibliography (5) - 3 freq
demography (5) - 4 freq
'geography (5) - 1 freq
hagiography (5) - 1 freq
digraphs (5) - 4 freq
birthy (6) - 1 freq
boorach (6) - 31 freq
borrach (6) - 1 freq
monograph (6) - 1 freq
autographs (6) - 2 freq
graphs (6) - 6 freq
brashy (6) - 1 freq
geographic (6) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - B261
biography - 7 freq
biographical - 5 freq
bugger-aff - 1 freq
biographer - 2 freq
biographie - 3 freq
bikerbloke - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - BKRF
biography - 7 freq
bugger-aff - 1 freq
biographie - 3 freq
BIOGRAPHY
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.211478 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 - 0.376654 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 - 0.028204 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 - 0.044661 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 - 0.001269 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.