| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| girlfriend (0) - 18 freq 'girlfriend (1) - 1 freq girlfiend (1) - 1 freq girlfriends (1) - 1 freq girlfreend (1) - 4 freq girlfrien (1) - 1 freq girlfreen (2) - 1 freq girlfriend's (2) - 2 freq girlfreins (3) - 1 freq galleried (4) - 1 freq pilloried (4) - 1 freq befriend (4) - 1 freq wirried (4) - 6 freq friend (4) - 86 freq girlie (4) - 5 freq wilfred (4) - 12 freq millfield (4) - 2 freq 'friend (4) - 1 freq gillgreeny (4) - 1 freq gloried (4) - 1 freq boyfriend (4) - 36 freq gottfried (4) - 1 freq frien (5) - 61 freq golfin (5) - 2 freq glories (5) - 9 freq |
girlfriend (0) - 18 freq girlfreend (1) - 4 freq girlfrien (2) - 1 freq girlfiend (2) - 1 freq 'girlfriend (2) - 1 freq girlfriends (2) - 1 freq girlfreen (3) - 1 freq girlfriend's (4) - 2 freq girlfreins (4) - 1 freq wilfred (7) - 12 freq garland (7) - 5 freq gillgreeny (7) - 1 freq gloried (7) - 1 freq 'friend (7) - 1 freq galleried (7) - 1 freq boyfriend (7) - 36 freq gottfried (7) - 1 freq befriend (7) - 1 freq friend (7) - 86 freq gairland (7) - 1 freq doggy-friend (8) - 1 freq yrlind (8) - 1 freq gollerin (8) - 6 freq frend (8) - 1 freq tirrand (8) - 3 freq |
SoundEx code - G641 girlfriend - 18 freq girlfriend's - 2 freq girlfrien - 1 freq girlfreend - 4 freq girlfiend - 1 freq girlfriends - 1 freq girlfreins - 1 freq grillaberdeen - 1 freq 'girlfriend - 1 freq girlfreen - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - JRLFRNT girlfriend - 18 freq girlfreend - 4 freq 'girlfriend - 1 freq |
GIRLFRIEND |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.210084 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 - 0.400859 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 - 0.027852 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 - 0.039613 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 - 0.000870 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. |