Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
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foster (0) - 19 freq faster (1) - 77 freq fester (1) - 16 freq poster (1) - 23 freq folster (1) - 1 freq forster (1) - 4 freq fister (1) - 2 freq fostex (1) - 1 freq fouter (1) - 6 freq fostert (1) - 1 freq coster (1) - 1 freq footer (1) - 14 freq lister (2) - 6 freq footert (2) - 3 freq fatter (2) - 13 freq footers (2) - 3 freq voter (2) - 11 freq folder (2) - 4 freq gester (2) - 2 freq hosted (2) - 3 freq fosterit (2) - 1 freq aister (2) - 2 freq mester (2) - 12 freq outer (2) - 4 freq toaster (2) - 6 freq |
foster (0) - 19 freq fister (1) - 2 freq fester (1) - 16 freq faster (1) - 77 freq footer (2) - 14 freq coster (2) - 1 freq faaster (2) - 6 freq faister (2) - 16 freq fistir (2) - 1 freq fostert (2) - 1 freq fouter (2) - 6 freq forster (2) - 4 freq poster (2) - 23 freq folster (2) - 1 freq fostex (2) - 1 freq booster (3) - 3 freq jester (3) - 4 freq festen (3) - 1 freq muster (3) - 7 freq farter (3) - 1 freq fusker (3) - 1 freq pester (3) - 2 freq footery (3) - 6 freq falter (3) - 1 freq foisted (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - F236 faster - 77 freq factory - 111 freq factory' - 2 freq fighters - 4 freq foster - 19 freq fechter - 20 freq fechters - 5 freq fighter - 9 freq fester - 16 freq feuchters - 1 freq factories - 12 freq fisther - 1 freq fectorie - 1 freq fectory - 6 freq fosterer - 3 freq festerin - 5 freq faister - 16 freq factery - 1 freq factor - 31 freq fosterit - 1 freq feexturs - 4 freq foxtrot - 2 freq factory's - 1 freq 'faster - 3 freq foster's - 1 freq festers - 1 freq fig-tree - 3 freq fixture - 4 freq festered - 3 freq factors - 21 freq faaster - 6 freq fixtures - 9 freq fixed-term - 1 freq faictors - 3 freq faictor - 3 freq fechters' - 2 freq faktories - 1 freq fistir - 1 freq factorie - 2 freq fichterin - 1 freq faister' - 1 freq fostirit - 1 freq fosterin - 2 freq factort - 1 freq fostert - 1 freq fister - 2 freq fowk-dramas - 1 freq fichter - 1 freq fosteringnet - 1 freq fcctrust - 1 freq fcxdr - 1 freq foxtrots - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - FSTR faster - 77 freq veesitor - 21 freq veisitor - 7 freq 'veisitor' - 1 freq foster - 19 freq fester - 16 freq faister - 16 freq visitor - 23 freq vestry - 3 freq 'faster - 3 freq visietor - 5 freq faaster - 6 freq visitir - 1 freq fistir - 1 freq faister' - 1 freq veisitour - 1 freq veisitar - 2 freq vistor - 1 freq fister - 2 freq veesiter - 1 freq veesitur - 1 freq vísitor - 1 freq |
FOSTER |
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.236440 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 - 0.410998 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 - 0.035938 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 - 0.047523 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 - 0.000764 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. |