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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to dittan in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
dittan (0) - 1 freq
gittan (1) - 30 freq
dottan (1) - 2 freq
pittan (1) - 13 freq
rittan (1) - 2 freq
fittan (1) - 1 freq
sittan (1) - 32 freq
settan (2) - 14 freq
bittae (2) - 2 freq
kittag (2) - 1 freq
hittin (2) - 39 freq
liltan (2) - 1 freq
bitten (2) - 7 freq
spittan (2) - 5 freq
titan (2) - 5 freq
mitten (2) - 15 freq
aitten (2) - 2 freq
ritten (2) - 1 freq
driftan (2) - 5 freq
dittys (2) - 1 freq
kittin (2) - 1 freq
did-an (2) - 1 freq
sitt'n (2) - 1 freq
puttan (2) - 3 freq
kithan (2) - 1 freq
dittan (0) - 1 freq
dottan (1) - 2 freq
datten (2) - 8 freq
dittaino (2) - 1 freq
sittan (2) - 32 freq
dottin (2) - 1 freq
pittan (2) - 13 freq
gittan (2) - 30 freq
fittan (2) - 1 freq
rittan (2) - 2 freq
sitten (3) - 12 freq
wittin (3) - 30 freq
sittn (3) - 1 freq
tittin (3) - 2 freq
rottan (3) - 6 freq
nitten (3) - 5 freq
lettan (3) - 1 freq
waittan (3) - 1 freq
nittin (3) - 3 freq
pittin (3) - 392 freq
kitten (3) - 6 freq
mitton (3) - 1 freq
dortan (3) - 1 freq
sittin (3) - 737 freq
ditty (3) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - D350
didna - 1636 freq
didnae - 1693 freq
didmae - 1 freq
daytime - 7 freq
doutna - 1 freq
'didnae - 2 freq
daudin - 2 freq
dauden - 1 freq
dootin - 5 freq
didein - 1 freq
dittaino - 1 freq
daytim - 1 freq
datin - 11 freq
didny - 16 freq
dotin - 2 freq
daednae - 3 freq
didno - 17 freq
deudno - 4 freq
did'nae - 1 freq
deayton - 1 freq
datten - 8 freq
did'n - 1 freq
dottan - 2 freq
dateen - 1 freq
'didna - 1 freq
dottin - 1 freq
deddin - 1 freq
datn - 4 freq
didn - 25 freq
doitin - 3 freq
dittan - 1 freq
dautin - 2 freq
doutin - 1 freq
datna - 2 freq
deid-duin - 1 freq
didni - 21 freq
€˜didn - 1 freq
didne - 1 freq
€œdidn - 1 freq
did-an - 1 freq
daddin - 1 freq
duettin - 1 freq
dudno - 3 freq
didnay - 2 freq
didna' - 1 freq
dadden - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TTN
didna - 1636 freq
didnae - 1693 freq
doutna - 1 freq
'didnae - 2 freq
daudin - 2 freq
dauden - 1 freq
dootin - 5 freq
didein - 1 freq
tidn - 1 freq
tooten - 2 freq
tootin - 2 freq
dittaino - 1 freq
datin - 11 freq
didny - 16 freq
totonia - 1 freq
dotin - 2 freq
daednae - 3 freq
teetin - 10 freq
tattooin - 3 freq
didno - 17 freq
deudno - 4 freq
tuttin - 5 freq
dïdnae - 24 freq
did'nae - 1 freq
tittin - 2 freq
deayton - 1 freq
datten - 8 freq
did'n - 1 freq
dottan - 2 freq
dateen - 1 freq
tuttan - 1 freq
'didna - 1 freq
teuton - 2 freq
dottin - 1 freq
teitin - 1 freq
deddin - 1 freq
teeden - 1 freq
datn - 4 freq
didn - 25 freq
doitin - 3 freq
dittan - 1 freq
dautin - 2 freq
doutin - 1 freq
datna - 2 freq
titan - 5 freq
titania - 1 freq
didni - 21 freq
€˜didn - 1 freq
didne - 1 freq
€œdidn - 1 freq
did-an - 1 freq
daddin - 1 freq
duettin - 1 freq
dudno - 3 freq
didnay - 2 freq
dtn - 1 freq
didna' - 1 freq
dadden - 1 freq
DITTAN
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.203500 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 - 0.408216 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 - 0.028714 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 - 0.039416 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 - 0.001068 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.