How word2vec output vectors are used to compute the similarities?

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I am a bit confused about the interpretation of word2vec output vectors! If I want to predict the most probable word that will appear after a specific word(w1), can I use the most nearest word to w1? I mean, a word having the shortest distance from w1 can be interpreted as the next word with the highest probability?

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If I want to predict the most probable word that will appear after a specific word(w1),

This is called language modeling

can I use the most nearest word to w1? I mean, a word having the shortest distance from w1 can be interpreted as the next word with the highest probability?

no: the nearest word to w1 is the most semantically close word to w1.