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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to leader in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
leader (0) - 59 freq
leaders (1) - 30 freq
lender (1) - 2 freq
leyder (1) - 1 freq
eader (1) - 1 freq
header (1) - 2 freq
ledder (1) - 23 freq
reader (1) - 89 freq
leaden (1) - 1 freq
edder (2) - 21 freq
lunder (2) - 1 freq
lenders (2) - 1 freq
seater (2) - 1 freq
leads (2) - 45 freq
laden (2) - 13 freq
nearder (2) - 1 freq
wedder (2) - 3 freq
loafer (2) - 1 freq
ladder (2) - 35 freq
weaver (2) - 12 freq
reider (2) - 5 freq
leaves (2) - 208 freq
dealer (2) - 15 freq
lauder (2) - 6 freq
leadin (2) - 67 freq
leader (0) - 59 freq
leyder (1) - 1 freq
louder (2) - 40 freq
ladar (2) - 1 freq
ledar (2) - 1 freq
lauder (2) - 6 freq
looder (2) - 36 freq
elder (2) - 58 freq
lieder (2) - 4 freq
eader (2) - 1 freq
lender (2) - 2 freq
leaders (2) - 30 freq
header (2) - 2 freq
ledder (2) - 23 freq
leaden (2) - 1 freq
reader (2) - 89 freq
layer (3) - 15 freq
lander (3) - 13 freq
heeder (3) - 1 freq
laayer (3) - 5 freq
heider (3) - 12 freq
aulder (3) - 245 freq
feeder (3) - 5 freq
vader (3) - 3 freq
leided (3) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - L360
later - 554 freq
looder - 36 freq
leader - 59 freq
letter - 240 freq
ladder - 35 freq
latter - 25 freq
ledder - 23 freq
lether - 2 freq
litter - 16 freq
louder - 40 freq
leather - 77 freq
luther - 9 freq
'luther - 1 freq
lauder - 6 freq
lottery - 29 freq
lieder - 4 freq
laitter - 1 freq
laiter - 4 freq
leathery - 2 freq
l'ather - 1 freq
leddery - 1 freq
leither - 5 freq
litre - 11 freq
laithery - 1 freq
lowther - 3 freq
lotterie - 1 freq
lettir - 2 freq
'louder - 1 freq
lettèr - 1 freq
latér - 1 freq
ladar - 1 freq
laedder - 1 freq
laethur - 1 freq
lauder' - 1 freq
liter - 1 freq
laither - 2 freq
laetter - 7 freq
leyder - 1 freq
lyther - 1 freq
laidder - 10 freq
lither - 1 freq
ledar - 1 freq
low-watter - 1 freq
laeter - 1 freq
loiter - 1 freq
lather - 1 freq
laetir - 2 freq
letir - 2 freq
l'derry - 2 freq
leathr - 1 freq
luthrie - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - LTR
later - 554 freq
looder - 36 freq
leader - 59 freq
letter - 240 freq
ladder - 35 freq
latter - 25 freq
ledder - 23 freq
litter - 16 freq
louder - 40 freq
lauder - 6 freq
lottery - 29 freq
lieder - 4 freq
laitter - 1 freq
laiter - 4 freq
leddery - 1 freq
litre - 11 freq
lotterie - 1 freq
lettir - 2 freq
'louder - 1 freq
lettèr - 1 freq
latér - 1 freq
ladar - 1 freq
laedder - 1 freq
lauder' - 1 freq
liter - 1 freq
laetter - 7 freq
leyder - 1 freq
laidder - 10 freq
ledar - 1 freq
laeter - 1 freq
loiter - 1 freq
laetir - 2 freq
letir - 2 freq
l'derry - 2 freq
LEADER
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.408351 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 - 0.521441 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 - 0.065363 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 - 0.049300 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 - 0.001174 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.