| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| herbal (0) - 5 freq verbal (1) - 28 freq herb (2) - 2 freq fergal (2) - 1 freq derval (2) - 17 freq feral (2) - 5 freq cereal (2) - 15 freq heal (2) - 27 freq hersel (2) - 1057 freq thermal (2) - 12 freq gerbil (2) - 10 freq herbst (2) - 2 freq vernal (2) - 3 freq herber (2) - 5 freq herdan (2) - 1 freq herbie (2) - 11 freq verbals (2) - 1 freq herman (2) - 1 freq herbor (2) - 1 freq aerial (2) - 5 freq herbs (2) - 14 freq hera (2) - 12 freq verball (2) - 1 freq hersael (2) - 1 freq ferfal (2) - 8 freq |
herbal (0) - 5 freq verbal (2) - 28 freq herber (3) - 5 freq gerbil (3) - 10 freq herbor (3) - 1 freq herbs (3) - 14 freq hersael (3) - 1 freq hersel (3) - 1057 freq herbie (3) - 11 freq herb (3) - 2 freq hereablo (3) - 1 freq hursel (4) - 14 freq tribal (4) - 12 freq herbeur (4) - 1 freq harsel (4) - 1 freq hirsel (4) - 119 freq herdly (4) - 18 freq herbrie (4) - 6 freq hurkil (4) - 1 freq hirpil (4) - 4 freq gorbel (4) - 1 freq hertily (4) - 2 freq hereby (4) - 3 freq merble (4) - 2 freq herbour (4) - 23 freq |
SoundEx code - H614 hirpled - 20 freq hirplin - 28 freq horrible - 58 freq hirpelt - 2 freq hoarrible - 1 freq hirples - 7 freq hirple - 12 freq hirplit - 5 freq hirpilt - 4 freq hirple's - 1 freq harebells - 2 freq herbal - 5 freq hirpil - 4 freq hirplt - 1 freq herbie'll - 1 freq harebell - 3 freq horribly - 2 freq herbalist - 1 freq hirplet - 1 freq hereablo - 1 freq herobelfast - 1 freq hurple - 1 freq hirplinyowe - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - HRBL horrible - 58 freq hoarrible - 1 freq herbal - 5 freq herbie'll - 1 freq harebell - 3 freq horribly - 2 freq hereablo - 1 freq |
HERBAL |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.237086 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 - 0.374598 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 - 0.028690 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 - 0.039238 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 - 0.000899 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. |