| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| watching (0) - 79 freq watchin (1) - 386 freq matching (1) - 2 freq catching (1) - 8 freq watchin' (1) - 8 freq patching (1) - 1 freq watering (2) - 1 freq matchin (2) - 16 freq nathing (2) - 1 freq aathing (2) - 176 freq fitching (2) - 1 freq hitching (2) - 1 freq athing (2) - 77 freq bitching (2) - 1 freq watchen (2) - 7 freq waatchin (2) - 24 freq waachin (2) - 1 freq bathing (2) - 1 freq latchin (2) - 2 freq wacking (2) - 2 freq witchin (2) - 2 freq switching (2) - 5 freq retching (2) - 1 freq matchin' (2) - 1 freq marching (2) - 6 freq |
watching (0) - 79 freq patching (2) - 1 freq catching (2) - 8 freq watchin' (2) - 8 freq watchin (2) - 386 freq matching (2) - 2 freq fetching (3) - 1 freq waatchin (3) - 24 freq witchin (3) - 2 freq watchan (3) - 20 freq watchen (3) - 7 freq retching (3) - 1 freq switching (3) - 5 freq bitching (3) - 1 freq watchn (3) - 1 freq hitching (3) - 1 freq fitching (3) - 1 freq awthing (4) - 63 freq swatchin (4) - 1 freq watchit (4) - 6 freq watchie (4) - 1 freq patchin' (4) - 1 freq weicheng (4) - 1 freq catchin (4) - 52 freq waatchan (4) - 8 freq |
SoundEx code - W325 watchin - 386 freq wide-wauken - 1 freq whitsuntid - 1 freq watson - 46 freq wadgin - 4 freq wad--gin - 1 freq whitesands - 1 freq whitsun - 1 freq watchan - 20 freq witch-hunteen - 1 freq watchin' - 8 freq watching - 79 freq watchen - 7 freq watchmaker - 2 freq wedgin - 1 freq waatchin - 24 freq watson's - 3 freq waatchan - 8 freq woodsman - 1 freq watchman - 1 freq witchin - 2 freq whit's-mine-is-mine - 1 freq whitsumivver - 1 freq wittgenstein - 38 freq wittgenstein's - 6 freq watkins - 12 freq whyt-waashin - 1 freq wide-kent - 1 freq whitsomiver - 1 freq wide-waukin - 1 freq waidgin - 1 freq watsons - 3 freq wdkenny - 1 freq watchn - 1 freq wdojnszo - 1 freq watsoncomedian - 2 freq wdcnem - 1 freq whotookmyname - 1 freq watchmen - 1 freq watchman-- - 1 freq whatsonds - 2 freq |
MetaPhone code - WXNK weicheng - 1 freq washing - 22 freq watching - 79 freq wishing - 7 freq |
WATCHING watch - 670 freq watchin - 386 freq watched - 257 freq watching - 79 freq watches - 29 freq watchan - 20 freq watcher - 1 freq watchers - 11 freq watcht - 8 freq watchin' - 8 freq watchit - 6 freq watchful - 2 freq watch-too'ers - 1 freq |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.174563 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 - 0.329501 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 - 0.026998 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 - 0.037010 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 - 0.000936 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. |