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Similar words to dreadin in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
dreadin (0) - 9 freq
dreadit (1) - 1 freq
readin (1) - 373 freq
treadin (1) - 6 freq
dreidin (1) - 4 freq
dreamin (1) - 38 freq
dreadin' (1) - 1 freq
breadin (1) - 1 freq
freakin (2) - 3 freq
drain (2) - 30 freq
dreedlin (2) - 1 freq
dreamin' (2) - 1 freq
spreadin (2) - 33 freq
draa'in (2) - 1 freq
drapin (2) - 1 freq
roadin (2) - 87 freq
dressin (2) - 23 freq
reading (2) - 92 freq
readit (2) - 3 freq
dreelin (2) - 1 freq
dremmin (2) - 2 freq
dravin (2) - 4 freq
tradin (2) - 9 freq
draain (2) - 15 freq
drearie (2) - 1 freq
dreadin (0) - 9 freq
dreidin (1) - 4 freq
breadin (2) - 1 freq
dreamin (2) - 38 freq
dreedan (2) - 1 freq
dreadin' (2) - 1 freq
dreadit (2) - 1 freq
readin (2) - 373 freq
treadin (2) - 6 freq
drawin (3) - 119 freq
dreaded (3) - 5 freq
draawin (3) - 2 freq
dreein (3) - 1 freq
froadin (3) - 1 freq
tredin (3) - 2 freq
dreipin (3) - 4 freq
droagin (3) - 1 freq
deddin (3) - 1 freq
deridin (3) - 1 freq
readyin (3) - 6 freq
dresden (3) - 1 freq
dreaman (3) - 2 freq
dreepin (3) - 66 freq
dramin (3) - 1 freq
dirdin (3) - 10 freq
SoundEx code - D635
dirdum - 20 freq
dreidin - 4 freq
dirdums - 2 freq
dauredna - 1 freq
daurdna - 3 freq
droddum - 1 freq
dirdin - 10 freq
deridin - 1 freq
dreadin - 9 freq
dartin - 5 freq
dreedan - 1 freq
darting - 1 freq
dirdan - 1 freq
dreadnaucht - 1 freq
drouthienes - 1 freq
dertin - 1 freq
dortan - 1 freq
duration - 5 freq
'duration' - 1 freq
dirtyin - 1 freq
dartan - 1 freq
duardna - 1 freq
dreid-na - 1 freq
daar'tna - 1 freq
dritten - 1 freq
dryden - 2 freq
dreadin' - 1 freq
derting - 1 freq
dortmund - 1 freq
durritin - 1 freq
dirdoinmyheadinalready - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - TRTN
trottin - 11 freq
tartan - 93 freq
dreidin - 4 freq
tradin - 9 freq
dauredna - 1 freq
daurdna - 3 freq
treadin - 6 freq
treatin - 15 freq
dirdin - 10 freq
deridin - 1 freq
dreadin - 9 freq
dartin - 5 freq
dreedan - 1 freq
traidin - 2 freq
troddin - 3 freq
dirdan - 1 freq
tairtan - 2 freq
dertin - 1 freq
dortan - 1 freq
tradan - 1 freq
trodden - 3 freq
dartan - 1 freq
tertan - 1 freq
duardna - 1 freq
dreid-na - 1 freq
tredden - 2 freq
trottan - 2 freq
treadan - 2 freq
traetin - 1 freq
daar'tna - 1 freq
dritten - 1 freq
dryden - 2 freq
triton - 4 freq
trooden - 2 freq
treddin - 1 freq
'tartan - 1 freq
tredin - 2 freq
treatin' - 1 freq
treadin' - 1 freq
dreadin' - 1 freq
torydon - 1 freq
durritin - 1 freq
DREADIN
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.186027 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 - 0.359453 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 - 0.027379 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 - 0.038170 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 - 0.000908 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.