| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| catalyst (0) - 8 freq catalysts (1) - 1 freq caals (3) - 2 freq analyse (3) - 5 freq canals (3) - 3 freq canal's (3) - 1 freq cataract (3) - 5 freq català (3) - 1 freq analysit (3) - 1 freq analysl (3) - 1 freq aalest (3) - 4 freq capitalist (3) - 15 freq caalls (3) - 1 freq cabals (3) - 4 freq carolst (3) - 1 freq italys (3) - 1 freq cailst (3) - 3 freq catalans (3) - 3 freq cataloag (3) - 1 freq caalt (3) - 24 freq catapult (3) - 1 freq catall (3) - 1 freq natralist (3) - 1 freq catalan (3) - 24 freq cairryit (4) - 2 freq |
catalyst (0) - 8 freq catalysts (2) - 1 freq carolst (4) - 1 freq capitalist (4) - 15 freq cailst (4) - 3 freq catapult (5) - 1 freq cataloag (5) - 1 freq catalans (5) - 3 freq caalt (5) - 24 freq natralist (5) - 1 freq coolest (5) - 1 freq callisto (5) - 2 freq cellist (5) - 1 freq coatless (5) - 1 freq stylist (5) - 2 freq catall (5) - 1 freq catalan (5) - 24 freq caals (5) - 2 freq cyclist (5) - 5 freq canals (5) - 3 freq italys (5) - 1 freq català (5) - 1 freq cataract (5) - 5 freq cabals (5) - 4 freq caalls (5) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - C342 catalogue - 16 freq catholic - 51 freq couthie-like - 2 freq catalyst - 8 freq coat-tails - 5 freq chattels - 1 freq catalogued - 2 freq catholics - 8 freq cuddles - 9 freq coatless - 1 freq cathlics - 2 freq cowt-lik - 1 freq cataloguin' - 2 freq catholicism - 1 freq catalysts - 1 freq cutlasses - 1 freq cuttie-like - 1 freq catwalk - 1 freq catholik - 1 freq cuttie-lik - 2 freq cat-like - 1 freq caithlick - 2 freq chattles - 2 freq cataloag - 1 freq cdlkturj - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - KTLST catalyst - 8 freq |
CATALYST |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.195029 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 - 0.350645 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 - 0.027471 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 - 0.040656 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 - 0.000869 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. |