| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| melons (0) - 2 freq melon (1) - 6 freq masons (2) - 4 freq ellons (2) - 1 freq felon (2) - 2 freq pylons (2) - 5 freq melrois (2) - 1 freq melts (2) - 10 freq mearns (2) - 6 freq belong (2) - 14 freq meuns (2) - 4 freq melton (2) - 1 freq demons (2) - 35 freq meens (2) - 3 freq lemons (2) - 2 freq herons (2) - 3 freq belongs (2) - 13 freq melt's (2) - 1 freq mons (2) - 12 freq aeons (2) - 1 freq malone (2) - 4 freq nylons (2) - 1 freq melody (2) - 6 freq moons (2) - 28 freq means (2) - 542 freq |
melons (0) - 2 freq melon (2) - 6 freq milns (2) - 1 freq mailins (3) - 1 freq meens (3) - 3 freq mens (3) - 2 freq moons (3) - 28 freq means (3) - 542 freq nylons (3) - 1 freq malone (3) - 4 freq mons (3) - 12 freq talons (3) - 5 freq melrois (3) - 1 freq pylons (3) - 5 freq mells (3) - 10 freq meuns (3) - 4 freq melts (3) - 10 freq mellins (3) - 1 freq masons (3) - 4 freq mearns (3) - 6 freq ellons (3) - 1 freq menus (4) - 3 freq walins (4) - 2 freq hielans (4) - 17 freq baloons (4) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - M452 millions - 66 freq melancholy - 15 freq 'millions - 2 freq malink - 2 freq mealmaker - 5 freq malunch - 1 freq melancholic - 2 freq milngavie - 1 freq mellins - 1 freq milne's - 1 freq mallimaks - 1 freq millins - 1 freq malinconia - 1 freq malinky - 1 freq malinkies - 1 freq mailins - 1 freq mailing - 3 freq melons - 2 freq millans - 1 freq milns - 1 freq malinger - 1 freq maleness - 1 freq milling - 1 freq mwilliamsht - 9 freq |
MetaPhone code - MLNS millions - 66 freq 'millions - 2 freq mellins - 1 freq milne's - 1 freq millins - 1 freq mailins - 1 freq melons - 2 freq millans - 1 freq milns - 1 freq maleness - 1 freq |
MELONS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.221627 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 - 0.372676 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 - 0.027628 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 - 0.038181 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 - 0.000820 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. |