| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| smale (0) - 1 freq shale (1) - 6 freq stale (1) - 15 freq skale (1) - 1 freq smile (1) - 458 freq smyle (1) - 2 freq sale (1) - 63 freq scale (1) - 54 freq male (1) - 59 freq small (1) - 75 freq scald (2) - 1 freq sidle (2) - 4 freq skal (2) - 1 freq smaws (2) - 1 freq sumane (2) - 4 freq sals (2) - 1 freq smelt (2) - 43 freq sake (2) - 245 freq saal (2) - 3 freq smawer (2) - 9 freq female (2) - 76 freq skare (2) - 4 freq spage (2) - 1 freq mable (2) - 2 freq stall (2) - 16 freq |
smale (0) - 1 freq smyle (1) - 2 freq smile (1) - 458 freq small (2) - 75 freq smyl (2) - 1 freq simile (2) - 3 freq smael (2) - 3 freq male (2) - 59 freq smiley (2) - 11 freq stale (2) - 15 freq scale (2) - 54 freq skale (2) - 1 freq shale (2) - 6 freq sale (2) - 63 freq myle (3) - 15 freq smell (3) - 271 freq smiler (3) - 1 freq sma (3) - 268 freq smaill (3) - 1 freq style (3) - 158 freq smaa (3) - 123 freq spile (3) - 11 freq mule (3) - 4 freq sile (3) - 9 freq smaic (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - S540 smile - 458 freq snell - 81 freq smell - 271 freq snail - 33 freq 'senile - 1 freq samuel - 22 freq 'samuel - 3 freq smool - 4 freq smaill - 1 freq shammle - 1 freq 'smell - 2 freq smiley - 11 freq 'smile - 1 freq smuil - 1 freq small - 75 freq sun'll - 2 freq smellie - 1 freq smeyl - 1 freq smyle - 2 freq simile - 3 freq smelly - 32 freq sawmill - 9 freq some'll - 1 freq smelle - 1 freq sum'll - 1 freq shinnel - 2 freq shimley - 1 freq samuel' - 1 freq sammil - 1 freq somely - 1 freq smyll - 2 freq smæl - 1 freq smael - 3 freq 'semmelie - 1 freq semmelie - 8 freq smale - 1 freq smyl - 1 freq 'small' - 2 freq sawmiil - 1 freq somewhyle - 1 freq sinnle - 1 freq saw-mill - 1 freq snaile - 1 freq snellee - 1 freq shemale - 1 freq senile - 1 freq seemly - 1 freq snl - 2 freq synily - 1 freq sgoinneil - 1 freq smyoll - 1 freq sconnelly - 7 freq |
MetaPhone code - SML smile - 458 freq smell - 271 freq samuel - 22 freq 'samuel - 3 freq smool - 4 freq symbol - 28 freq smaill - 1 freq 'smell - 2 freq smiley - 11 freq 'smile - 1 freq smuil - 1 freq small - 75 freq smellie - 1 freq smeyl - 1 freq smyle - 2 freq simile - 3 freq smelly - 32 freq sawmill - 9 freq some'll - 1 freq smelle - 1 freq sum'll - 1 freq samuel' - 1 freq sammil - 1 freq somely - 1 freq smyll - 2 freq smæl - 1 freq smael - 3 freq 'semmelie - 1 freq semmelie - 8 freq cymbal - 3 freq smale - 1 freq smyl - 1 freq 'small' - 2 freq semblay - 1 freq sawmiil - 1 freq somewhyle - 1 freq seembol - 1 freq saw-mill - 1 freq seemly - 1 freq |
SMALE |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.220677 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 - 0.396344 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 - 0.036327 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 - 0.040743 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 - 0.001126 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. |