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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to candidates in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
candidates (0) - 15 freq
candidate's (1) - 1 freq
candidate (1) - 21 freq
antedates (3) - 2 freq
validates (3) - 1 freq
indicates (3) - 13 freq
bandmates (3) - 1 freq
radiates (3) - 3 freq
captivates (3) - 1 freq
castigate (4) - 1 freq
canister (4) - 3 freq
cardinal's (4) - 1 freq
canadiane (4) - 2 freq
canongate's (4) - 1 freq
cardigans (4) - 5 freq
candles (4) - 9 freq
bandits (4) - 5 freq
an-dat's (4) - 1 freq
canvases (4) - 2 freq
indicated (4) - 4 freq
cairtes (4) - 1 freq
randies (4) - 2 freq
cardinalis (4) - 1 freq
cannases (4) - 1 freq
antidote (4) - 2 freq
candidates (0) - 15 freq
candidate (2) - 21 freq
candidate's (2) - 1 freq
indicates (5) - 13 freq
bandmates (5) - 1 freq
antedates (5) - 2 freq
cundies (6) - 5 freq
anecdotes (6) - 10 freq
canada's (6) - 1 freq
'anecdotes (6) - 4 freq
candid (6) - 1 freq
candles (6) - 9 freq
consulates (6) - 1 freq
consates (6) - 2 freq
bandits (6) - 5 freq
caddies (6) - 2 freq
captivates (6) - 1 freq
radiates (6) - 3 freq
conduits (6) - 1 freq
condies (6) - 2 freq
validates (6) - 1 freq
candlemas (7) - 4 freq
concedes (7) - 4 freq
bandages (7) - 5 freq
cruddles (7) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - C533
connotations - 9 freq
coonted - 16 freq
chantit - 8 freq
coontit - 30 freq
condeition - 3 freq
countit - 3 freq
conditions - 35 freq
candidate - 21 freq
candidate's - 1 freq
committed - 23 freq
condition - 36 freq
chauntit - 2 freq
conditioner - 1 freq
conditioned - 2 freq
conduits - 1 freq
counted - 13 freq
chaunted - 2 freq
committit - 12 freq
condeetions - 7 freq
countet - 1 freq
commïtit - 1 freq
can-edit - 1 freq
chanted - 6 freq
commited - 2 freq
candid - 1 freq
condeetion - 5 freq
condeitions - 4 freq
commodity - 1 freq
connotational - 1 freq
commeittit - 1 freq
connotatioun - 1 freq
candidates - 15 freq
conotations - 4 freq
cantit - 1 freq
commitit - 5 freq
condeetionin - 1 freq
cantatation - 1 freq
cantata - 1 freq
conduit - 1 freq
connotation - 3 freq
connotit - 1 freq
conditional - 2 freq
conditions' - 1 freq
cantwaitforschoolstogoback - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KNTTTS
candidate's - 1 freq
candidates - 15 freq
CANDIDATES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.203020 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 - 0.554011 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 - 0.058864 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 - 0.037713 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 - 0.000942 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.