| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ferm-life (0) - 1 freq ferm-wife (1) - 1 freq firm-like (2) - 1 freq fermwife (2) - 17 freq pro-life (3) - 1 freq fernlie (3) - 1 freq fertilise (3) - 3 freq femmelie (3) - 2 freq hert-line (3) - 1 freq forlife (3) - 1 freq real-life (3) - 1 freq feart-like (3) - 1 freq femlie (3) - 25 freq fork-lift (3) - 1 freq wark-life (3) - 1 freq term-time (3) - 1 freq wirm-like (3) - 1 freq ferm-wife's (3) - 1 freq ferlie (3) - 96 freq warm-like (3) - 1 freq bee-line (4) - 3 freq meek-like (4) - 1 freq firmlee (4) - 1 freq folklife (4) - 3 freq tent-like (4) - 1 freq |
ferm-life (0) - 1 freq ferm-wife (2) - 1 freq firm-like (3) - 1 freq fermwife (4) - 17 freq feart-like (5) - 1 freq wark-life (5) - 1 freq real-life (5) - 1 freq warm-like (5) - 1 freq wirm-like (5) - 1 freq fork-lift (5) - 1 freq pro-life (5) - 1 freq forlife (5) - 1 freq ferlie-like (6) - 1 freq ferm-toun (6) - 4 freq true-life (6) - 1 freq bairn-life (6) - 2 freq frumlie (6) - 3 freq formality (6) - 4 freq ferm-hoose (6) - 1 freq ferm-louns (6) - 1 freq formulate (6) - 2 freq formulae (6) - 3 freq fermlaun (6) - 1 freq ferliefu (6) - 3 freq furmality (6) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - F654 firmly - 41 freq formally - 7 freq formal - 59 freq freenly - 22 freq formula - 6 freq fernlie - 1 freq formulae - 3 freq formality - 4 freq formulas - 2 freq ferm-life - 1 freq frienly - 5 freq frien'liness - 1 freq freenly-lookin - 1 freq formless - 2 freq frienless - 1 freq furmal - 1 freq freinlie - 5 freq fairmlan - 1 freq fernielea - 1 freq formulation - 2 freq formaldehyde - 2 freq ferm-louns - 1 freq freenlie - 2 freq frumlie - 3 freq 'frumlie' - 1 freq freinlier' - 1 freq free-online - 18 freq fermlan - 1 freq freinlie-lik - 1 freq furmality - 1 freq freinly - 3 freq fermlaun - 1 freq fermland - 1 freq firmal - 1 freq furmless - 1 freq firm-like - 1 freq formulatin - 1 freq formulate - 2 freq frenulum - 1 freq firmlee - 1 freq firmil - 2 freq €œfirmil - 1 freq franwella - 4 freq |
MetaPhone code - FRMLF ferm-life - 1 freq |
FERM-LIFE |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.256103 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 - 0.423814 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 - 0.031726 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 - 0.042505 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 - 0.000797 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. |