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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to detention in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
detention (0) - 10 freq
detentions (1) - 1 freq
peteetion (2) - 3 freq
intention (2) - 24 freq
peteition (2) - 1 freq
attention (2) - 183 freq
detectin (2) - 1 freq
desertion (2) - 2 freq
deletion (2) - 1 freq
dejection (2) - 2 freq
detector (3) - 7 freq
essention (3) - 1 freq
stentin (3) - 2 freq
depiction (3) - 3 freq
detective (3) - 23 freq
invention (3) - 22 freq
peteetions (3) - 1 freq
dementia (3) - 9 freq
detestit (3) - 1 freq
dimension (3) - 11 freq
attentioun (3) - 1 freq
dentition (3) - 1 freq
attentions (3) - 3 freq
digestion (3) - 1 freq
desertin (3) - 2 freq
detention (0) - 10 freq
detentions (2) - 1 freq
detectin (3) - 1 freq
attention (3) - 183 freq
intention (3) - 24 freq
tentin (4) - 10 freq
detonations (4) - 1 freq
attentioun (4) - 1 freq
attintion (4) - 3 freq
stentin (4) - 2 freq
definition (4) - 30 freq
dejection (4) - 2 freq
peteition (4) - 1 freq
peteetion (4) - 3 freq
desertion (4) - 2 freq
deletion (4) - 1 freq
destination (4) - 19 freq
intentions (5) - 17 freq
dottin (5) - 1 freq
extension (5) - 11 freq
dependin (5) - 26 freq
defendin (5) - 9 freq
dementit (5) - 22 freq
petition (5) - 11 freq
edeetion (5) - 12 freq
SoundEx code - D353
didn't - 39 freq
detention - 10 freq
detained - 1 freq
'didn't - 1 freq
da-da-n'''da-da'n'da - 1 freq
deid-end - 1 freq
detentions - 1 freq
detonations - 1 freq
diidnt - 1 freq
didn’t - 3 freq
didnt - 3 freq
MetaPhone code - TTNXN
detention - 10 freq
DETENTION
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.201759 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 - 0.355483 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 - 0.028016 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 - 0.037653 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 - 0.000897 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.