| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| motherwell (0) - 30 freq mothwerwell (1) - 1 freq motherwells (1) - 1 freq motherwellfc (2) - 1 freq motherwell's (2) - 6 freq mitherweel (2) - 1 freq otherweys (3) - 1 freq bothwell (3) - 160 freq mither'll (3) - 1 freq minerwell (3) - 1 freq oversell (4) - 1 freq hotterel (4) - 1 freq terrell (4) - 4 freq bothered (4) - 58 freq mother (4) - 97 freq itherweys (4) - 9 freq hersell (4) - 12 freq orwell (4) - 4 freq 'there'll (4) - 1 freq dhothersall (4) - 2 freq eternell (4) - 1 freq itherweis (4) - 1 freq mothersday (4) - 3 freq smothered (4) - 6 freq ither'll (4) - 1 freq |
motherwell (0) - 30 freq motherwells (2) - 1 freq mothwerwell (2) - 1 freq mitherweel (3) - 1 freq mither'll (4) - 1 freq motherwell's (4) - 6 freq motherwellfc (4) - 1 freq bothwell (5) - 160 freq minerwell (5) - 1 freq there'll (6) - 63 freq ither'll (6) - 1 freq netherwarl (6) - 1 freq stairwell (6) - 5 freq they-well (6) - 1 freq southwell (6) - 1 freq tither'll (6) - 1 freq mitherly (6) - 3 freq nethermill (6) - 1 freq 'there'll (6) - 1 freq otherweys (6) - 1 freq thrall (7) - 4 freq ithers'll (7) - 1 freq thur'll (7) - 3 freq mother' (7) - 1 freq mither-leid (7) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - M364 material - 86 freq materialises - 1 freq mitherly - 3 freq mitherless - 7 freq materialist - 1 freq mither'll - 1 freq materialism - 1 freq materials - 60 freq mothwerwell - 1 freq mitherweel - 1 freq materialized - 2 freq mitherlaun - 1 freq materialise - 2 freq midderly - 1 freq motherwell - 30 freq motherwell's - 6 freq materially - 1 freq materialised - 1 freq mither-leid - 1 freq motherwellfc - 1 freq motherlanguageday - 7 freq motherwells - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - M0RWL mitherweel - 1 freq motherwell - 30 freq |
MOTHERWELL motherwell - 30 freq |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.189772 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 - 0.399075 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 - 0.027426 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 - 0.036816 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 - 0.000852 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. |