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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to writins in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
writins (0) - 9 freq
writin (1) - 375 freq
whitins (1) - 1 freq
writin's (1) - 8 freq
writin' (1) - 2 freq
writings (1) - 2 freq
writing (1) - 95 freq
witin (2) - 1 freq
writan (2) - 27 freq
writeens (2) - 2 freq
origins (2) - 20 freq
britains (2) - 1 freq
'writin (2) - 2 freq
writen (2) - 1 freq
writing' (2) - 1 freq
writhes (2) - 1 freq
whiting (2) - 1 freq
writhin (2) - 11 freq
whitin (2) - 25 freq
wiritin (2) - 1 freq
writers (2) - 92 freq
waiting (2) - 49 freq
ritirs (2) - 1 freq
critics (2) - 17 freq
waitin' (2) - 4 freq
writins (0) - 9 freq
writing (2) - 95 freq
writeens (2) - 2 freq
writin' (2) - 2 freq
writings (2) - 2 freq
whitins (2) - 1 freq
writin's (2) - 8 freq
writin (2) - 375 freq
britons (3) - 2 freq
writers (3) - 92 freq
wrytin (3) - 4 freq
writes (3) - 46 freq
wiritin (3) - 1 freq
wittins (3) - 228 freq
wuttins (3) - 1 freq
wrtin (3) - 1 freq
writhes (3) - 1 freq
britains (3) - 1 freq
writan (3) - 27 freq
gratins (3) - 1 freq
writen (3) - 1 freq
vreetins (4) - 1 freq
wairns (4) - 1 freq
martins (4) - 2 freq
pairtins (4) - 1 freq
SoundEx code - W635
written - 283 freq
wrutten - 84 freq
writin-desk - 3 freq
writin-desks - 3 freq
writhin - 11 freq
writin - 375 freq
worritin - 1 freq
wardens - 2 freq
writing - 95 freq
writins - 9 freq
writeen - 3 freq
writin' - 2 freq
'writin - 2 freq
'writing - 1 freq
writin's - 8 freq
writing's - 3 freq
wordin - 3 freq
weirdin - 1 freq
warden - 6 freq
wirritin - 1 freq
wartin - 1 freq
wirtin - 2 freq
wording - 7 freq
wiritin - 1 freq
writan - 27 freq
wird-hunds - 1 freq
wrytin - 4 freq
wartime - 7 freq
writan-desk - 1 freq
writandesks - 1 freq
writhan - 1 freq
writeens - 2 freq
wurdin - 1 freq
weirdness - 1 freq
waretime - 1 freq
wordiness - 1 freq
writin-device - 1 freq
writing' - 1 freq
wairdin - 1 freq
wirdin - 2 freq
wirdins - 1 freq
writings - 2 freq
writen - 1 freq
wrtin - 1 freq
wardin - 1 freq
wartim - 1 freq
wordamentalist - 2 freq
wearethentia - 2 freq
wwwritingclub - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - RTNS
rottans - 7 freq
readins - 15 freq
rattons - 34 freq
writins - 9 freq
riddance - 4 freq
reddins - 1 freq
reidness - 1 freq
redness - 1 freq
writin's - 8 freq
rodden's - 1 freq
rottenness - 1 freq
ratin's - 1 freq
rudeness - 3 freq
rattans - 3 freq
roadin's - 7 freq
roadins - 3 freq
raedeens - 1 freq
raedan's - 1 freq
ratton's - 6 freq
roddens - 4 freq
writeens - 2 freq
rottens - 1 freq
ratten's - 1 freq
ridness - 1 freq
rattens - 2 freq
readiness - 1 freq
retains - 4 freq
retinas - 1 freq
radiance - 1 freq
rtnsw - 1 freq
routines - 1 freq
WRITINS
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.206807 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 - 0.378994 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 - 0.030459 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 - 0.038613 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 - 0.000901 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.