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Similar words to flitan in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
flitan (0) - 1 freq
flittan (1) - 5 freq
flitin (1) - 1 freq
writan (2) - 27 freq
fitman (2) - 22 freq
flits (2) - 8 freq
flirtin (2) - 5 freq
flit' (2) - 1 freq
floatan (2) - 2 freq
fita (2) - 1 freq
itan (2) - 1 freq
flippan (2) - 1 freq
flowan (2) - 1 freq
fluten (2) - 1 freq
liftan (2) - 3 freq
fitin (2) - 4 freq
alian (2) - 1 freq
fittan (2) - 1 freq
flyman (2) - 5 freq
plipan (2) - 1 freq
flit's (2) - 1 freq
whitan (2) - 9 freq
flaran (2) - 1 freq
slipan (2) - 1 freq
faintan (2) - 1 freq
flitan (0) - 1 freq
flitin (1) - 1 freq
flaitin (2) - 4 freq
fleitin (2) - 1 freq
flytin (2) - 35 freq
floatan (2) - 2 freq
fluten (2) - 1 freq
flittan (2) - 5 freq
liltan (3) - 1 freq
flmtn (3) - 1 freq
litany (3) - 1 freq
flaman (3) - 1 freq
flictin (3) - 1 freq
feilan (3) - 2 freq
fliein (3) - 4 freq
fuitin (3) - 2 freq
flayan (3) - 2 freq
fleetin (3) - 20 freq
flite (3) - 2 freq
footan (3) - 1 freq
fulton (3) - 5 freq
floutin (3) - 1 freq
floatin (3) - 44 freq
fleatin (3) - 1 freq
flyan (3) - 17 freq
SoundEx code - F435
floatin - 44 freq
fauldin - 12 freq
flattened - 8 freq
flytin - 35 freq
flettent - 6 freq
foldin - 9 freq
fleetin - 20 freq
flittin - 66 freq
flyting - 3 freq
flattenin' - 1 freq
fletten - 2 freq
floddin - 1 freq
flaedom - 1 freq
flodden - 9 freq
flatten't - 1 freq
flatten - 6 freq
flettened - 1 freq
fluidin - 1 freq
filletin - 2 freq
floatin' - 4 freq
floaten - 2 freq
fleeting - 2 freq
floodin - 9 freq
flood'n - 1 freq
flattenin - 1 freq
full-time - 3 freq
fleatin - 1 freq
flittin's - 1 freq
flittin' - 2 freq
flaitin - 4 freq
flittan - 5 freq
faaldan - 1 freq
fly-time - 2 freq
fludin - 1 freq
foldeen - 1 freq
floatan - 2 freq
floating - 9 freq
flodden-wail - 1 freq
flitin - 1 freq
flittins - 3 freq
fowldan - 1 freq
fleitin - 1 freq
flowetin - 1 freq
fluten - 1 freq
flottin - 3 freq
€˜flyting - 2 freq
fleetingly - 3 freq
fulton - 5 freq
flatness - 1 freq
flitteen - 1 freq
flytins - 1 freq
fulton's - 1 freq
folding - 2 freq
flitting - 1 freq
fultyme - 1 freq
flattent - 1 freq
ful-time - 2 freq
fludemark - 1 freq
flitan - 1 freq
flytime - 2 freq
flooding - 2 freq
floutin - 1 freq
flatmates - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - FLTN
floatin - 44 freq
fauldin - 12 freq
flytin - 35 freq
foldin - 9 freq
fleetin - 20 freq
flittin - 66 freq
fletten - 2 freq
floddin - 1 freq
flodden - 9 freq
flatten - 6 freq
fluidin - 1 freq
filletin - 2 freq
floatin' - 4 freq
floaten - 2 freq
floodin - 9 freq
flood'n - 1 freq
fleatin - 1 freq
flittin' - 2 freq
flaitin - 4 freq
flittan - 5 freq
faaldan - 1 freq
fludin - 1 freq
foldeen - 1 freq
floatan - 2 freq
flitin - 1 freq
fowldan - 1 freq
fleitin - 1 freq
fluten - 1 freq
flottin - 3 freq
vaultin - 1 freq
fulton - 5 freq
flitteen - 1 freq
flitan - 1 freq
floutin - 1 freq
FLITAN
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.226631 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 - 0.379513 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 - 0.027687 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 - 0.038415 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 - 0.000939 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.