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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to zaakin in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
zaakin (0) - 1 freq
taakin (1) - 107 freq
aakin (1) - 3 freq
baakin (1) - 1 freq
maakin (1) - 42 freq
waakin (1) - 35 freq
saabin (2) - 1 freq
waakie (2) - 1 freq
yalkin (2) - 2 freq
baaken (2) - 1 freq
maakan (2) - 4 freq
hackin (2) - 7 freq
waaxin (2) - 1 freq
haalin (2) - 9 freq
waadin (2) - 1 freq
rankin (2) - 16 freq
bankin (2) - 19 freq
wakkin (2) - 3 freq
shakin (2) - 107 freq
bakin (2) - 24 freq
daikin (2) - 1 freq
naakid (2) - 1 freq
ackin (2) - 5 freq
aekin (2) - 1 freq
faackin (2) - 2 freq
zaakin (0) - 1 freq
waakin (2) - 35 freq
baakin (2) - 1 freq
maakin (2) - 42 freq
taakin (2) - 107 freq
aakin (2) - 3 freq
maukin (3) - 35 freq
leakin (3) - 12 freq
waakan (3) - 9 freq
askin (3) - 183 freq
jakin (3) - 1 freq
haekin (3) - 1 freq
peakin (3) - 1 freq
lakin (3) - 1 freq
akin (3) - 12 freq
maikin (3) - 1 freq
haakon (3) - 3 freq
waaken (3) - 16 freq
makin (3) - 450 freq
yankin (3) - 4 freq
yaukin (3) - 1 freq
maaken (3) - 1 freq
paikin (3) - 3 freq
takin (3) - 453 freq
waukin (3) - 24 freq
SoundEx code - Z250
zaakin - 1 freq
zajym - 1 freq
zzizkhn - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - SKN
seekin - 100 freq
skin - 270 freq
skinny - 64 freq
sookin - 52 freq
scan - 23 freq
soakin - 36 freq
scone - 43 freq
suckin - 6 freq
sekan - 2 freq
sikkin - 19 freq
soukin - 6 freq
'soukin - 1 freq
skein - 8 freq
sikken - 11 freq
sooken - 1 freq
siken - 1 freq
soaken - 2 freq
skyn - 1 freq
seggan - 2 freq
soackin - 1 freq
'scone - 1 freq
skene - 12 freq
sackin - 4 freq
'sikkin - 1 freq
sicna - 90 freq
sokken - 1 freq
sookan - 3 freq
saggin - 3 freq
sken - 2 freq
seekan - 3 freq
zaakin - 1 freq
sukken - 1 freq
sikin - 2 freq
sikin' - 1 freq
secon' - 4 freq
sicken - 1 freq
sicn - 1 freq
skeen - 8 freq
scunn - 1 freq
skyne - 1 freq
'sookin - 1 freq
sekein - 3 freq
skoun - 2 freq
sekin - 2 freq
seignie - 1 freq
sagan - 1 freq
saiconn - 4 freq
ski-in' - 1 freq
skiin - 4 freq
€œskiin - 1 freq
saekkan - 1 freq
sicnaa - 1 freq
seekin' - 9 freq
seekinÂ’ - 1 freq
sookin' - 1 freq
seconÂ’ - 1 freq
hzqnn - 1 freq
sukan - 1 freq
sacan - 1 freq
zqn - 1 freq
ZAAKIN
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.191861 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 - 0.362536 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 - 0.029902 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 - 0.037691 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 - 0.000897 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.