| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fiddle (0) - 52 freq hiddle (1) - 10 freq fiddled (1) - 1 freq liddle (1) - 1 freq diddle (1) - 14 freq piddle (1) - 3 freq fiddles (1) - 14 freq riddle (1) - 32 freq tiddle (1) - 1 freq fiddler (1) - 21 freq middle (1) - 491 freq tiddly (2) - 1 freq fidder (2) - 12 freq puddle (2) - 24 freq coddle (2) - 1 freq fickle (2) - 11 freq girdle (2) - 15 freq fidgie (2) - 1 freq saiddle (2) - 6 freq doddle (2) - 4 freq waddle (2) - 1 freq skiddle (2) - 1 freq guddle (2) - 34 freq middly (2) - 3 freq fingle (2) - 1 freq |
fiddle (0) - 52 freq riddle (2) - 32 freq fiddler (2) - 21 freq fiddil (2) - 2 freq fiddles (2) - 14 freq middle (2) - 491 freq tiddle (2) - 1 freq fiddled (2) - 1 freq piddle (2) - 3 freq liddle (2) - 1 freq hiddle (2) - 10 freq diddle (2) - 14 freq huddle (3) - 6 freq cuddle (3) - 25 freq faddie (3) - 2 freq mddle (3) - 1 freq hoddle (3) - 1 freq heddle (3) - 1 freq paiddle (3) - 2 freq fiddlin (3) - 5 freq fidd (3) - 1 freq fuddled (3) - 1 freq meddle (3) - 9 freq i'fiddle (3) - 1 freq paddle (3) - 23 freq |
SoundEx code - F340 feudal - 5 freq feet'll - 2 freq fettle - 23 freq fit'll - 11 freq fitehaal - 1 freq foetal - 3 freq 'fat'll - 1 freq fiddle - 52 freq faitly - 2 freq fatal - 6 freq 'fit'll - 3 freq fettil - 2 freq ftl - 2 freq fiddil - 2 freq fitly - 1 freq futile - 6 freq fitwell - 1 freq fatell - 1 freq fatally - 2 freq |
MetaPhone code - FTL feudal - 5 freq feet'll - 2 freq fettle - 23 freq fit'll - 11 freq foetal - 3 freq 'fat'll - 1 freq vital - 31 freq fiddle - 52 freq faitly - 2 freq fatal - 6 freq 'fit'll - 3 freq fettil - 2 freq ftl - 2 freq fiddil - 2 freq fitly - 1 freq futile - 6 freq fatell - 1 freq fatally - 2 freq vitally - 1 freq vaital - 1 freq vtl - 1 freq |
FIDDLE |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.174443 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 - 0.314350 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 - 0.026933 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 - 0.040477 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 - 0.000842 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. |