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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to middens in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
middens (0) - 11 freq
biddens (1) - 1 freq
midders (1) - 8 freq
midden (1) - 92 freq
middeens (1) - 1 freq
midden' (1) - 2 freq
hidden (2) - 70 freq
middles (2) - 1 freq
widders (2) - 2 freq
mittens (2) - 4 freq
midges (2) - 26 freq
midder (2) - 64 freq
saddens (2) - 1 freq
mideen (2) - 1 freq
sidden (2) - 16 freq
idders (2) - 40 freq
madden (2) - 3 freq
mirrens (2) - 1 freq
ridden (2) - 8 freq
middlins (2) - 2 freq
midder's (2) - 1 freq
puddens (2) - 7 freq
mindins (2) - 20 freq
widden (2) - 134 freq
roddens (2) - 4 freq
middens (0) - 11 freq
middeens (1) - 1 freq
midden' (2) - 2 freq
midders (2) - 8 freq
biddens (2) - 1 freq
midden (2) - 92 freq
roddens (3) - 4 freq
middils (3) - 1 freq
middlins (3) - 2 freq
saddens (3) - 1 freq
mindins (3) - 20 freq
madden (3) - 3 freq
biddins (3) - 12 freq
middles (3) - 1 freq
modrens (3) - 5 freq
middeen (3) - 2 freq
widdins (3) - 1 freq
puddens (3) - 7 freq
maidens (3) - 8 freq
puddeens (4) - 1 freq
bidden (4) - 36 freq
mydins (4) - 1 freq
mydnins (4) - 1 freq
weddins (4) - 3 freq
maddies (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - M352
meeting - 41 freq
midnicht - 57 freq
madness - 30 freq
motions - 17 freq
middens - 11 freq
midnecht - 1 freq
modem's - 1 freq
meetins - 16 freq
midden's-worth - 1 freq
maidens - 8 freq
midmaist - 2 freq
moothins - 1 freq
meetin's - 2 freq
midnight - 17 freq
madame's - 1 freq
maidens' - 1 freq
medium-sized - 1 freq
meetings - 16 freq
mittens - 4 freq
moutens - 1 freq
middeens - 1 freq
medana's - 1 freq
meednicht - 1 freq
methinks - 4 freq
moutains - 1 freq
midmest - 1 freq
€˜meetings - 1 freq
€˜meeting - 1 freq
maiden's - 1 freq
maidenkirk - 3 freq
mood-music - 1 freq
muteness - 1 freq
myth-makkin - 1 freq
midnicht---a - 1 freq
mydins - 1 freq
meetin-hooses - 1 freq
€˜methinks - 1 freq
mating - 1 freq
maitiumacriceid - 1 freq
matneycomedy - 1 freq
madmikel - 2 freq
mademesmile - 1 freq
matthancock - 1 freq
matthewmcsmith - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - MTNS
madness - 30 freq
middens - 11 freq
meetins - 16 freq
maidens - 8 freq
meetin's - 2 freq
maidens' - 1 freq
hæmtoons - 1 freq
mittens - 4 freq
moutens - 1 freq
middeens - 1 freq
medana's - 1 freq
moutains - 1 freq
maiden's - 1 freq
muteness - 1 freq
mydins - 1 freq
MIDDENS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.179877 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 - 0.508364 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 - 0.076688 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 - 0.088843 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 - 0.000925 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.