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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to nairative in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
nairative (0) - 3 freq
narrative (1) - 41 freq
nairitive (1) - 1 freq
nairrative (1) - 3 freq
nairratives (2) - 2 freq
'narrative (2) - 1 freq
narratives (2) - 2 freq
normative (3) - 1 freq
talkative (3) - 2 freq
bairntime (3) - 3 freq
narratit (3) - 1 freq
nairator (3) - 1 freq
laxative (3) - 1 freq
imitative (3) - 1 freq
naistie (3) - 1 freq
causative (3) - 1 freq
naitralie (3) - 1 freq
mairtime (3) - 1 freq
intiative (3) - 1 freq
cairtie (3) - 12 freq
narrate (3) - 3 freq
native (3) - 94 freq
hairtie (3) - 1 freq
nairae (3) - 8 freq
fricative (3) - 17 freq
nairative (0) - 3 freq
nairitive (1) - 1 freq
nairrative (2) - 3 freq
narrative (2) - 41 freq
intiative (4) - 1 freq
native (4) - 94 freq
nairator (4) - 1 freq
negative (4) - 41 freq
narratives (4) - 2 freq
nairratives (4) - 2 freq
normative (4) - 1 freq
'narrative (4) - 1 freq
fricative (5) - 17 freq
pairtie (5) - 44 freq
raelative (5) - 1 freq
airtime (5) - 1 freq
lucrative (5) - 2 freq
initiative (5) - 15 freq
furtive (5) - 2 freq
creative (5) - 102 freq
indicative (5) - 2 freq
nairae (5) - 8 freq
nairrie (5) - 1 freq
narration (5) - 1 freq
naistie (5) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - N631
narrative - 41 freq
narratives - 2 freq
'narrative - 1 freq
nortaboot - 1 freq
nairratives - 2 freq
nairrative - 3 freq
nairative - 3 freq
nairitive - 1 freq
northfield - 1 freq
northhop - 1 freq
northepolice - 2 freq
northbridge - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - NRTF
narrative - 41 freq
'narrative - 1 freq
nairrative - 3 freq
nairative - 3 freq
nairitive - 1 freq
NAIRATIVE
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.578293 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 - 1.117720 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 - 0.094542 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 - 0.105159 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 - 0.001030 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.