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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to deesil in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
deesil (0) - 3 freq
deevil (1) - 17 freq
deesel (1) - 8 freq
diesil (1) - 1 freq
deesul (1) - 1 freq
deasil (1) - 1 freq
dcesil (1) - 1 freq
deisil (1) - 1 freq
deesle (2) - 3 freq
deeit (2) - 1 freq
vessil (2) - 1 freq
desel (2) - 4 freq
peesie (2) - 1 freq
eesin (2) - 1 freq
deemie (2) - 3 freq
desi (2) - 1 freq
eesel (2) - 1 freq
derail (2) - 1 freq
deezie (2) - 1 freq
persil (2) - 1 freq
desir (2) - 1 freq
diesel (2) - 6 freq
neesik (2) - 2 freq
dee'in (2) - 3 freq
deeid (2) - 15 freq
deesil (0) - 3 freq
deasil (1) - 1 freq
deesul (1) - 1 freq
deisil (1) - 1 freq
diesil (1) - 1 freq
deesel (1) - 8 freq
desel (2) - 4 freq
deevil (2) - 17 freq
diesel (2) - 6 freq
dcesil (2) - 1 freq
deesle (2) - 3 freq
detail (3) - 43 freq
de'il (3) - 5 freq
meesel (3) - 2 freq
dees (3) - 41 freq
reesel (3) - 4 freq
deil (3) - 196 freq
dsl (3) - 28 freq
devil (3) - 35 freq
deel (3) - 2 freq
deisle (3) - 1 freq
deeside (3) - 14 freq
dysel (3) - 13 freq
desir (3) - 1 freq
eesel (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - D240
doucely - 30 freq
day-school - 2 freq
diesel - 6 freq
day-schule - 1 freq
deasil - 1 freq
dauchle - 2 freq
dachle - 1 freq
deisle - 1 freq
deesul - 1 freq
deesle - 3 freq
deesil - 3 freq
dakkil - 1 freq
dochle - 1 freq
day-skuil - 1 freq
day-schuil - 1 freq
daachle - 1 freq
deesel - 8 freq
day-schöl - 1 freq
dysel - 13 freq
dsl - 28 freq
dcal - 1 freq
daizzle - 2 freq
diesil - 1 freq
dis'll - 1 freq
deukiel - 1 freq
doucelie - 3 freq
desel - 4 freq
disallou - 1 freq
dougal - 2 freq
ducale - 1 freq
deisil - 1 freq
duixl - 1 freq
diggle - 1 freq
daisley - 2 freq
docile - 1 freq
dissowle - 1 freq
dasheill - 1 freq
dhaqkl - 1 freq
dchl - 1 freq
ddougall - 1 freq
dayglow - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TSL
doucely - 30 freq
diesel - 6 freq
deasil - 1 freq
tassel - 2 freq
deisle - 1 freq
deesul - 1 freq
deesle - 3 freq
deesil - 3 freq
ïtsel - 4 freq
deesel - 8 freq
dysel - 13 freq
dsl - 28 freq
daizzle - 2 freq
t'sæl - 1 freq
diesil - 1 freq
dis'll - 1 freq
doucelie - 3 freq
tossel - 1 freq
desel - 4 freq
disallou - 1 freq
touzly - 1 freq
touzle - 1 freq
tissil - 1 freq
deisil - 1 freq
tesla - 2 freq
tooslie - 1 freq
tsl - 2 freq
tslaw - 1 freq
daisley - 2 freq
docile - 1 freq
dissowle - 1 freq
toozle - 1 freq
DEESIL
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.364081 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 - 0.598949 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 - 0.030731 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 - 0.143307 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 - 0.004838 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.