| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aerosol (0) - 6 freq aerosols (1) - 6 freq parasol (3) - 3 freq aerial (3) - 5 freq errol (3) - 2 freq akros (3) - 3 freq acrood (3) - 1 freq uersel (3) - 1 freq bertson (3) - 1 freq arose (3) - 15 freq persil (3) - 1 freq alcohol (3) - 34 freq aero (3) - 1 freq haersel (3) - 1 freq aroon (3) - 564 freq acroo (3) - 1 freq heros (3) - 1 freq akross (3) - 2 freq hersel (3) - 1057 freq aesop (3) - 8 freq aeriel (3) - 1 freq erosion (3) - 6 freq across (3) - 584 freq aroion (3) - 1 freq meroo (3) - 1 freq |
aerosol (0) - 6 freq aerosols (2) - 6 freq uersel (3) - 1 freq eersel (3) - 28 freq rosal (3) - 1 freq ersel (3) - 36 freq yersel (3) - 913 freq oorsel (4) - 10 freq ursel (4) - 2 freq eross (4) - 1 freq irsel (4) - 2 freq yirsel (4) - 79 freq oursel (4) - 1 freq reesel (4) - 4 freq yer'sel (4) - 2 freq eros (4) - 16 freq erosion (4) - 6 freq rool (4) - 1 freq eosl (4) - 3 freq aers (4) - 2 freq aeriel (4) - 1 freq arose (4) - 15 freq persil (4) - 1 freq haersel (4) - 1 freq yursel (4) - 10 freq |
SoundEx code - A624 arsehole - 19 freq argyle - 5 freq arkless - 1 freq arkless's - 1 freq argyll - 17 freq archaeologist - 6 freq archaeological - 12 freq archeologists - 1 freq archaeology - 6 freq arkleston - 1 freq archelaus - 2 freq argle-barglin - 2 freq argle-barle - 1 freq aerosol - 6 freq aerosols - 6 freq argil-bargils - 1 freq argillin - 1 freq arkaeolojist - 4 freq arkaeolojist's - 1 freq argle-barglous - 1 freq archaeologists - 4 freq airchaeological - 2 freq argle-bargle - 1 freq argil-bargillin - 1 freq archaeologically - 1 freq archeology - 2 freq arseholes - 13 freq archaelogical - 2 freq aregular - 1 freq arseley - 1 freq argyllandbute - 1 freq airassltbde - 1 freq archaeology' - 1 freq argyllseaglass - 4 freq |
MetaPhone code - ERSL ersel - 36 freq eersel - 28 freq aerosol - 6 freq erse'll - 1 freq eersell - 1 freq |
AEROSOL |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.190936 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 - 0.328036 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 - 0.027860 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 - 0.037295 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 - 0.000825 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. |