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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to witness in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
witness (0) - 89 freq
witless (1) - 6 freq
wutness (1) - 10 freq
witnesst (1) - 1 freq
fitness (1) - 20 freq
ridness (2) - 1 freq
hotness (2) - 1 freq
witnessin (2) - 2 freq
iiiness (2) - 1 freq
bisness (2) - 3 freq
aptness (2) - 1 freq
waitress (2) - 8 freq
likness (2) - 1 freq
witnesses (2) - 11 freq
swaitness (2) - 1 freq
lioness (2) - 2 freq
wileness (2) - 1 freq
witnessed (2) - 28 freq
wittens (2) - 6 freq
winless (2) - 1 freq
wines (2) - 8 freq
wutnesst (2) - 1 freq
wutless (2) - 1 freq
wuidness (2) - 2 freq
wildness (2) - 6 freq
witness (0) - 89 freq
wutness (1) - 10 freq
witless (2) - 6 freq
weetness (2) - 1 freq
fitness (2) - 20 freq
witnesst (2) - 1 freq
wuidness (3) - 2 freq
wutless (3) - 1 freq
eyewitness (3) - 1 freq
wutnesst (3) - 1 freq
wileness (3) - 1 freq
weitnes (3) - 2 freq
wutnes (3) - 1 freq
whiteness (3) - 9 freq
wulness (3) - 1 freq
witnessed (3) - 28 freq
waitress (3) - 8 freq
aptness (3) - 1 freq
witnessin (3) - 2 freq
witnesses (3) - 11 freq
swaitness (3) - 1 freq
hotness (3) - 1 freq
sautness (4) - 1 freq
quietness (4) - 2 freq
weelness (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - W352
wittins - 228 freq
whitins - 1 freq
witness - 89 freq
wittens - 6 freq
whiteness - 9 freq
witnesst - 1 freq
waiting - 49 freq
wadnesday - 3 freq
waddins - 10 freq
wedding - 19 freq
wednesday - 170 freq
wednesdays - 2 freq
witnessed - 28 freq
w-w-wednesday - 1 freq
wutnessin - 2 freq
wuidness - 2 freq
whiting - 1 freq
wutness - 10 freq
witnessmen - 1 freq
witnessin - 2 freq
widnesday - 3 freq
witnesses - 11 freq
weddins - 3 freq
wutnesses - 3 freq
wutnesst - 1 freq
waddin's - 1 freq
weddeen's - 1 freq
wittins-kists - 1 freq
wittans - 2 freq
waitin-game - 1 freq
weddings - 2 freq
whitemaas - 1 freq
wadding - 1 freq
wedding-finger - 1 freq
widdins - 1 freq
weddung - 2 freq
'wedding' - 2 freq
wuidins - 1 freq
wuidin's - 1 freq
weetness - 1 freq
wuttins - 1 freq
whittinghame - 2 freq
wednesay - 2 freq
wednesady - 1 freq
weitnessin - 1 freq
weitnes - 2 freq
wutnes - 1 freq
weedin's - 1 freq
wedensday - 2 freq
wadensday - 4 freq
wittings - 1 freq
wittins' - 1 freq
wading - 1 freq
weeding - 1 freq
woodwinecoolers - 7 freq
wtnj - 1 freq
wtmqr - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - WTNS
wittins - 228 freq
whitins - 1 freq
witness - 89 freq
wittens - 6 freq
whiteness - 9 freq
waddins - 10 freq
wuidness - 2 freq
wutness - 10 freq
weddins - 3 freq
waddin's - 1 freq
weddeen's - 1 freq
wittans - 2 freq
widdins - 1 freq
wuidins - 1 freq
wuidin's - 1 freq
weetness - 1 freq
wuttins - 1 freq
wednesay - 2 freq
weitnes - 2 freq
wutnes - 1 freq
weedin's - 1 freq
wittins' - 1 freq
WITNESS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.190351 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 - 0.378083 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 - 0.031863 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 - 0.037382 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 - 0.000940 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.