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Similar words to necessity in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
necessity (0) - 7 freq
necessitie (2) - 1 freq
needcessity (2) - 10 freq
decessit (2) - 1 freq
necessitat (2) - 2 freq
necessary (2) - 26 freq
necessitate (3) - 1 freq
recession (3) - 3 freq
necessear (3) - 1 freq
necessair (3) - 2 freq
necessarily (3) - 15 freq
recessive (3) - 1 freq
secession (3) - 1 freq
necessitats (3) - 1 freq
necessar (3) - 88 freq
necessities (3) - 2 freq
necessarly (3) - 1 freq
density (4) - 4 freq
incressit (4) - 2 freq
deceit (4) - 5 freq
faceility (4) - 1 freq
blessit (4) - 9 freq
obesity (4) - 8 freq
accessin (4) - 5 freq
intensity (4) - 6 freq
necessity (0) - 7 freq
necessitie (2) - 1 freq
necessary (3) - 26 freq
necessitat (3) - 2 freq
decessit (3) - 1 freq
needcessity (3) - 10 freq
necessities (4) - 2 freq
necessair (4) - 2 freq
necessar (4) - 88 freq
necessear (4) - 1 freq
necessitate (4) - 1 freq
incressit (5) - 2 freq
needcessitie (5) - 1 freq
nedecessitie (5) - 1 freq
focussit (5) - 1 freq
nicest (5) - 6 freq
necessarly (5) - 1 freq
secession (5) - 1 freq
necessarily (5) - 15 freq
necessitats (5) - 1 freq
recession (5) - 3 freq
recessive (5) - 1 freq
'necessar (6) - 1 freq
increasit (6) - 2 freq
nicety (6) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - N223
newcastle - 24 freq
nicest - 6 freq
necessitie - 1 freq
necessity - 7 freq
necessities - 2 freq
no-questions - 2 freq
newscaster - 1 freq
no-sae-kittle - 1 freq
necessitats - 1 freq
necessitate - 1 freq
necessitat - 2 freq
newcastle-upo-tyne - 1 freq
newcastle-upon-tynne - 1 freq
newskesters - 1 freq
nguistics - 1 freq
neccesities - 1 freq
niexecutive - 1 freq
nosuchthingasgermsinthe - 1 freq
nicestafftho - 1 freq
ngist - 2 freq
nikkigate - 1 freq
newcastle-upon-tyne - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - NSST
nicest - 6 freq
necessitie - 1 freq
necessity - 7 freq
NECESSITY
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.181652 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 - 0.372020 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 - 0.029579 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 - 0.039112 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 - 0.001109 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.