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Similarity Function In Spacy






Purpose





Example


import spacy

nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_md")

word1 = nlp("king")
word2 = nlp("queen")
word3 = nlp("apple")

print("The similarity between king and queen is:", word1.similarity(word2))  # high
print("The similarity between king and apple is:", word1.similarity(word3))  # low



Output


Picture showing the output of similarity function in spacy





Posted By  -  Karan Gupta
 
Posted On  -  Wednesday, January 21, 2026

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