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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to neibour in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
neibour (0) - 28 freq
neebour (1) - 37 freq
neibor (1) - 3 freq
neibours (1) - 19 freq
herbour (2) - 23 freq
meirour (2) - 1 freq
neibourin (2) - 5 freq
necbours (2) - 1 freq
neebor (2) - 43 freq
neibour's (2) - 1 freq
neibors (2) - 7 freq
nibor (2) - 2 freq
neibours' (2) - 1 freq
neichbour (2) - 1 freq
neipours (2) - 8 freq
neebours (2) - 33 freq
neeboor (2) - 1 freq
neebur (2) - 11 freq
neighbour (2) - 42 freq
dreidour (3) - 1 freq
newborn (3) - 11 freq
neithir (3) - 1 freq
nebo (3) - 1 freq
notour (3) - 5 freq
nibors (3) - 2 freq
neibour (0) - 28 freq
neibor (1) - 3 freq
neebour (1) - 37 freq
nibor (2) - 2 freq
neeboor (2) - 1 freq
neebor (2) - 43 freq
neebur (2) - 11 freq
neibours (2) - 19 freq
neebours (3) - 33 freq
neeber (3) - 2 freq
neebir (3) - 13 freq
neibors (3) - 7 freq
neibourin (3) - 5 freq
nebir (3) - 1 freq
labour (4) - 276 freq
nebfu (4) - 1 freq
naitur (4) - 75 freq
tibur (4) - 2 freq
bour (4) - 1 freq
neepur (4) - 1 freq
neibit (4) - 3 freq
nivur (4) - 2 freq
neebra (4) - 3 freq
neiver (4) - 1 freq
laubour (4) - 2 freq
SoundEx code - N160
never - 1661 freq
niver - 851 freq
nivver - 977 freq
'never - 14 freq
neibour - 28 freq
neepur - 1 freq
neebra - 3 freq
neiper - 6 freq
nivir - 180 freq
'nivver' - 1 freq
neebor - 43 freq
'nivver - 3 freq
nivvir - 27 freq
neeber - 2 freq
nevir - 8 freq
neebur - 11 freq
'niwver - 1 freq
neebour - 37 freq
napper - 36 freq
naipier - 1 freq
nevvir - 32 freq
niwver - 6 freq
nippier - 1 freq
nebir - 1 freq
neebir - 13 freq
'niver - 2 freq
newvir - 6 freq
'nevvir - 1 freq
nhivver - 1 freq
neeper - 5 freq
napier - 25 freq
nivwer - 6 freq
nibor - 2 freq
niffer - 7 freq
'never' - 1 freq
nivur - 2 freq
nabberie - 1 freq
neibor - 3 freq
€˜never - 7 freq
€œnivver - 5 freq
€˜nivver - 3 freq
never-aa - 1 freq
nibbery - 1 freq
€˜niver - 1 freq
€œniver - 5 freq
neeboor - 1 freq
naver - 3 freq
neiver - 1 freq
€œnivir - 3 freq
navir - 2 freq
€œnever - 2 freq
nipper - 1 freq
n'iver - 4 freq
niÂ’ver - 1 freq
nvr - 2 freq
“nivver - 1 freq
nebbery - 1 freq
nevur - 1 freq
nevar - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - NBR
neibour - 28 freq
neebra - 3 freq
neebor - 43 freq
neeber - 2 freq
neebur - 11 freq
neebour - 37 freq
nebir - 1 freq
neebir - 13 freq
nibor - 2 freq
nabberie - 1 freq
neibor - 3 freq
nibbery - 1 freq
neeboor - 1 freq
newburgh - 1 freq
nebbery - 1 freq
NEIBOUR
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.182075 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 - 0.346051 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 - 0.027525 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 - 0.036666 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 - 0.000928 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.