| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| flaff (0) - 5 freq laff (1) - 7 freq fluff (1) - 5 freq blaff (1) - 2 freq faff (1) - 3 freq baff (2) - 3 freq bluff (2) - 4 freq pluff (2) - 4 freq lafn (2) - 1 freq fiff (2) - 1 freq nyaff (2) - 24 freq laef (2) - 6 freq flaen (2) - 2 freq waff (2) - 19 freq flap (2) - 32 freq flaffin (2) - 6 freq flaat (2) - 2 freq flax (2) - 3 freq feafv (2) - 2 freq flaes (2) - 1 freq flag (2) - 70 freq flank (2) - 12 freq flack (2) - 2 freq flak (2) - 6 freq flan (2) - 3 freq |
flaff (0) - 5 freq fluff (1) - 5 freq fluffy (2) - 17 freq faff (2) - 3 freq blaff (2) - 2 freq laff (2) - 7 freq fuff (3) - 6 freq cliff (3) - 27 freq flaffer (3) - 3 freq gluff (3) - 19 freq loff (3) - 2 freq lff (3) - 1 freq funff (3) - 1 freq luff (3) - 4 freq gliff (3) - 35 freq liff (3) - 2 freq flaffed (3) - 2 freq pluff (3) - 4 freq bluff (3) - 4 freq flaffin (3) - 6 freq fiff (3) - 1 freq paff (4) - 1 freq laft (4) - 26 freq flae (4) - 2 freq staff (4) - 106 freq |
SoundEx code - F410 flip - 8 freq flap - 32 freq floppy - 5 freq fluffy - 17 freq flype - 3 freq flyp - 3 freq flaff - 5 freq flab - 2 freq flee-up - 2 freq follae-up - 4 freq follow-up - 2 freq flop - 4 freq fluff - 5 freq fleep - 1 freq flyb - 1 freq flava - 1 freq flav - 1 freq flp - 2 freq |
MetaPhone code - FLF fluffy - 17 freq flaff - 5 freq valve - 1 freq philiphaugh - 2 freq philiphaw - 1 freq fluff - 5 freq vallvé - 1 freq vulva - 1 freq vlv - 1 freq flava - 1 freq flav - 1 freq volvo - 2 freq |
FLAFF |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.200496 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 - 0.339833 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 - 0.031028 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 - 0.038724 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 - 0.000869 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. |