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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to gadder in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
gadder (0) - 19 freq
gadders (1) - 4 freq
badder (1) - 5 freq
wadder (1) - 21 freq
fadder (1) - 69 freq
'gadder (1) - 1 freq
gander (1) - 14 freq
gadger (1) - 1 freq
madder (1) - 5 freq
gaddir (1) - 1 freq
ladder (1) - 35 freq
adder (1) - 4 freq
sadder (1) - 5 freq
tedder (2) - 2 freq
garde (2) - 1 freq
waddir (2) - 1 freq
ganfer (2) - 2 freq
faeder (2) - 4 freq
farder (2) - 31 freq
wander (2) - 41 freq
gaddin (2) - 1 freq
aidder (2) - 1 freq
bladder (2) - 6 freq
rudder (2) - 4 freq
fedder (2) - 36 freq
gadder (0) - 19 freq
gaddir (1) - 1 freq
madder (2) - 5 freq
ladder (2) - 35 freq
sadder (2) - 5 freq
gadderie (2) - 9 freq
gadger (2) - 1 freq
adder (2) - 4 freq
badder (2) - 5 freq
gander (2) - 14 freq
gadders (2) - 4 freq
wadder (2) - 21 freq
'gadder (2) - 1 freq
fadder (2) - 69 freq
geddes (3) - 22 freq
gaddered (3) - 16 freq
ridder (3) - 2 freq
gledder (3) - 3 freq
laedder (3) - 1 freq
guider (3) - 4 freq
fidder (3) - 12 freq
hedder (3) - 11 freq
nidder (3) - 6 freq
geddert (3) - 1 freq
kidder (3) - 4 freq
SoundEx code - G360
gaither - 83 freq
gether - 42 freq
gutter - 33 freq
gadder - 19 freq
gither - 69 freq
gather - 18 freq
guitar - 27 freq
guthrie - 6 freq
gaether - 5 freq
guider - 4 freq
guttery - 3 freq
gadderie - 9 freq
'gadder - 1 freq
gaithery - 8 freq
gied-owre - 1 freq
guit-er - 4 freq
gitter - 1 freq
gaethur - 1 freq
guttur - 1 freq
gaitherie - 2 freq
guidar - 1 freq
gutterie - 1 freq
g'throu - 1 freq
gaddir - 1 freq
'gither - 4 freq
gither' - 1 freq
gooder' - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - KTR
cater - 5 freq
gutter - 33 freq
gadder - 19 freq
kidder - 4 freq
quieter - 11 freq
cotter - 3 freq
quaiter - 4 freq
guitar - 27 freq
cawdor - 1 freq
guider - 4 freq
kedar - 1 freq
cutter - 5 freq
guttery - 3 freq
catter - 16 freq
catrry - 1 freq
cottar - 28 freq
quater - 5 freq
quatre - 1 freq
gadderie - 9 freq
'gadder - 1 freq
guit-er - 4 freq
guttur - 1 freq
coutar - 1 freq
guidar - 1 freq
quaeter - 1 freq
€˜cotter - 1 freq
cawdour - 1 freq
gutterie - 1 freq
cuiter - 1 freq
qatar - 9 freq
gaddir - 1 freq
cattery - 8 freq
quatary - 1 freq
couture - 1 freq
cowdary - 1 freq
cuter - 1 freq
quidder - 1 freq
gooder' - 1 freq
qtrh - 1 freq
GADDER
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.211566 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 - 0.386797 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 - 0.030037 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 - 0.037896 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 - 0.000932 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.