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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to defence in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
defence (0) - 46 freq
defense (1) - 1 freq
defences (1) - 5 freq
defince (1) - 2 freq
defend (2) - 23 freq
defen (2) - 1 freq
define (2) - 11 freq
defended (2) - 3 freq
terence (2) - 1 freq
defends (2) - 1 freq
decense (2) - 1 freq
offence (2) - 35 freq
defender (2) - 5 freq
decency (2) - 10 freq
defiance (2) - 13 freq
defeck (2) - 1 freq
fence (2) - 154 freq
deece (2) - 1 freq
defect (2) - 1 freq
denunce (2) - 1 freq
defenses (2) - 1 freq
deference (2) - 4 freq
eence (2) - 319 freq
deedle (3) - 2 freq
denee (3) - 1 freq
defence (0) - 46 freq
defince (1) - 2 freq
defense (2) - 1 freq
defiance (2) - 13 freq
defences (2) - 5 freq
decency (3) - 10 freq
defend (3) - 23 freq
denunce (3) - 1 freq
deference (3) - 4 freq
offence (3) - 35 freq
fence (3) - 154 freq
defen (3) - 1 freq
define (3) - 11 freq
deafens (4) - 1 freq
daince (4) - 1 freq
dwance (4) - 1 freq
defn (4) - 3 freq
daecency (4) - 2 freq
deiference (4) - 1 freq
fince (4) - 5 freq
definet (4) - 1 freq
definin (4) - 4 freq
definit (4) - 3 freq
daesency (4) - 1 freq
offince (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - D152
daffins - 1 freq
defines - 7 freq
defensive - 10 freq
deavances - 1 freq
defence - 46 freq
dobbin's - 1 freq
deepins - 1 freq
deafens - 1 freq
defences - 5 freq
defenestration - 1 freq
devonshire - 1 freq
divines - 1 freq
defince - 2 freq
definsively - 1 freq
diaphanous-wingit - 1 freq
dipping - 3 freq
defiance - 13 freq
dippin-machines - 1 freq
defense - 1 freq
definsive - 1 freq
dipomacy - 1 freq
diaphinous - 1 freq
devensian - 1 freq
deepmaist - 1 freq
deefness - 1 freq
defenceless - 3 freq
defensively - 1 freq
defankelise - 1 freq
deifness - 1 freq
defenses - 1 freq
€œdeifness - 2 freq
defmqgvx - 1 freq
davemcro - 1 freq
debnicol - 5 freq
debunking - 1 freq
devomax - 2 freq
dfmcifps - 1 freq
devenickdairy - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TFNS
daffins - 1 freq
defines - 7 freq
defence - 46 freq
deafens - 1 freq
toughness - 1 freq
divines - 1 freq
defince - 2 freq
defiance - 13 freq
defense - 1 freq
diaphinous - 1 freq
deefness - 1 freq
deifness - 1 freq
€œdeifness - 2 freq
DEFENCE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.339137 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 - 0.504142 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 - 0.028725 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 - 0.039606 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 - 0.000885 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.