| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| petals (0) - 22 freq peals (1) - 2 freq petal (1) - 11 freq metals (1) - 5 freq pedals (1) - 3 freq penels (2) - 7 freq metal (2) - 92 freq details (2) - 70 freq medals (2) - 15 freq peas (2) - 54 freq retails (2) - 1 freq pet's (2) - 2 freq perils (2) - 2 freq spitals (2) - 1 freq heals (2) - 5 freq peills (2) - 1 freq pearls (2) - 17 freq seals (2) - 22 freq peans (2) - 1 freq decals (2) - 1 freq peters (2) - 4 freq peats (2) - 49 freq deals (2) - 18 freq rentals (2) - 2 freq petrels (2) - 2 freq |
petals (0) - 22 freq metals (2) - 5 freq pedals (2) - 3 freq peals (2) - 2 freq petal (2) - 11 freq pals (3) - 365 freq ptas (3) - 1 freq petrels (3) - 2 freq peths (3) - 3 freq peats (3) - 49 freq phials (3) - 1 freq peels (3) - 30 freq pets (3) - 12 freq peters (3) - 4 freq pete's (3) - 3 freq vitals (3) - 1 freq portals (3) - 1 freq pet's (3) - 2 freq spitals (3) - 1 freq perils (3) - 2 freq penels (3) - 7 freq peills (3) - 1 freq details (3) - 70 freq pearls (3) - 17 freq retails (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - P342 petals - 22 freq padlock - 5 freq puddles - 12 freq podlie's - 1 freq padlocks - 1 freq potless - 1 freq pitlochory - 1 freq pathologically - 1 freq peitiless - 2 freq pitlochry - 7 freq paiddles - 2 freq pitiless - 1 freq peetiless - 1 freq piddles - 4 freq pedals - 3 freq pot-holes - 1 freq pathologist - 1 freq pathological - 1 freq paddles - 1 freq potlicht - 1 freq ptlz - 1 freq padlocks - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - PTLS petals - 22 freq puddles - 12 freq podlie's - 1 freq potless - 1 freq peitiless - 2 freq paiddles - 2 freq pitiless - 1 freq peetiless - 1 freq piddles - 4 freq pedals - 3 freq paddles - 1 freq ptlz - 1 freq |
PETALS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.203170 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 - 0.331629 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 - 0.027684 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 - 0.037890 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 - 0.000900 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. |