Neighbourhood

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Calculate Orthographic Neighbourhood Information

Enter one or more letter strings (between 2 and 12 characters long) and press the 'Calculate' button to view the word frequency and the number of substitution neighbours of each letter string. The frequency will be 0 if the letter string is not found in the lexicon. The output is a simple table that can be copied to Excel. To view more detailed and other information about each letter string check one or more checkboxes.

Mean positional bigram frequency
Open bigram information
List of Substitution neighbours (Coltheart's N)
List of Transposition (TL) neighbours

One or more letter strings:
(divided by space or return)

Please be patient because the calculation can take a few seconds per item.

The calculations are based on an English word form lexicon extracted from the SUBTLEX-US database. The words in this lexicon are between 2 and 12 letters long and their word frequency is at least 1 occurance per million. There are in total 17165 word forms in this lexicon.

 

Last updated: 27/1/11