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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to literary in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
literary (0) - 63 freq
leiterary (1) - 4 freq
lit'rary (1) - 1 freq
literacy (1) - 34 freq
literar (1) - 3 freq
library (2) - 174 freq
leeterary (2) - 19 freq
literate (2) - 9 freq
literati (2) - 3 freq
literal (2) - 7 freq
literally (2) - 42 freq
€˜literary (2) - 1 freq
leiteracy (2) - 3 freq
literarie (2) - 1 freq
leebrary (3) - 4 freq
libary (3) - 1 freq
liter (3) - 1 freq
aikeray (3) - 2 freq
leibrary (3) - 1 freq
liberals (3) - 5 freq
itinerary (3) - 2 freq
riteday (3) - 1 freq
teary (3) - 3 freq
librar (3) - 8 freq
iterally (3) - 1 freq
literary (0) - 63 freq
literar (1) - 3 freq
leiterary (1) - 4 freq
leeterary (2) - 19 freq
lit'rary (2) - 1 freq
literarie (2) - 1 freq
literacy (2) - 34 freq
leiterarie (3) - 43 freq
leiteracy (3) - 3 freq
leeterar (3) - 14 freq
loiterer (3) - 1 freq
literate (3) - 9 freq
literati (3) - 3 freq
literal (3) - 7 freq
library (3) - 174 freq
librar (4) - 8 freq
liturgy (4) - 3 freq
leiterate (4) - 1 freq
terry (4) - 16 freq
leeteracy (4) - 15 freq
libarry (4) - 1 freq
leiterairie (4) - 1 freq
€˜literary (4) - 1 freq
literature (4) - 94 freq
lateral (4) - 3 freq
SoundEx code - L366
leiterarie - 43 freq
leiterary - 4 freq
literary - 63 freq
leader-writers - 1 freq
literarie - 1 freq
leitherarie - 1 freq
'leiterarie - 1 freq
letter-huird - 2 freq
lit'rary - 1 freq
looderhorns - 1 freq
leeterary - 19 freq
leiterairie - 1 freq
leeterar - 14 freq
lĂ­terar - 1 freq
loiterer - 1 freq
€˜literary - 1 freq
literar - 3 freq
MetaPhone code - LTRR
leiterarie - 43 freq
leiterary - 4 freq
literary - 63 freq
literarie - 1 freq
'leiterarie - 1 freq
lit'rary - 1 freq
leeterary - 19 freq
leiterairie - 1 freq
leeterar - 14 freq
lĂ­terar - 1 freq
loiterer - 1 freq
€˜literary - 1 freq
literar - 3 freq
LITERARY
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.304120 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 - 0.511073 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 - 0.059517 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 - 0.037590 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 - 0.000892 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.