| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pirls (0) - 4 freq dirls (1) - 7 freq nirls (1) - 1 freq spirls (1) - 3 freq pirl (1) - 7 freq girls (1) - 58 freq pills (1) - 16 freq pirns (1) - 1 freq pairls (1) - 4 freq tirls (1) - 4 freq pirks (1) - 1 freq birls (1) - 31 freq aires (2) - 1 freq pis (2) - 2 freq pil (2) - 5 freq pipes (2) - 83 freq pers (2) - 1 freq nirlt (2) - 1 freq pixels (2) - 2 freq rills (2) - 1 freq piyl (2) - 1 freq pinks (2) - 4 freq perks (2) - 9 freq hir's (2) - 1 freq dirks (2) - 4 freq |
pirls (0) - 4 freq pairls (1) - 4 freq birls (2) - 31 freq tirls (2) - 4 freq dirls (2) - 7 freq pearls (2) - 17 freq paerls (2) - 1 freq perils (2) - 2 freq pirks (2) - 1 freq pirns (2) - 1 freq spirls (2) - 3 freq nirls (2) - 1 freq girls (2) - 58 freq pirl (2) - 7 freq pills (2) - 16 freq purl (3) - 3 freq tirlis (3) - 1 freq ports (3) - 10 freq powls (3) - 2 freq perms (3) - 2 freq peir's (3) - 1 freq warls (3) - 4 freq puils (3) - 9 freq parlous (3) - 1 freq purlies (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - P642 pairls - 4 freq pirlicues - 3 freq powerless - 2 freq perilous - 1 freq pearls - 17 freq 'pearls - 1 freq père-lachaise - 1 freq paralysin - 2 freq paralysed - 13 freq paraleesed - 4 freq pirlicue - 6 freq pirliecules - 1 freq parlous - 1 freq poorlies - 1 freq perils - 2 freq pirls - 4 freq prologue - 4 freq parlez-vous - 1 freq pirliecue - 1 freq pouerless - 2 freq pouerlessness - 1 freq pierluigi - 1 freq purlies - 1 freq pooerless - 2 freq paerls - 1 freq perilously - 1 freq parlez - 1 freq €˜perles - 1 freq peerless - 1 freq pearlspetcare - 1 freq pearljam - 3 freq pooralexa - 1 freq prillisk's - 1 freq prlhj - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - PRLS pairls - 4 freq perilous - 1 freq pearls - 17 freq 'pearls - 1 freq parlous - 1 freq poorlies - 1 freq perils - 2 freq pirls - 4 freq pouerless - 2 freq purlies - 1 freq pooerless - 2 freq paerls - 1 freq parlez - 1 freq €˜perles - 1 freq peerless - 1 freq |
PIRLS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.185332 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 - 0.394910 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 - 0.027398 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 - 0.037088 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 - 0.000777 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. |