| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| owl (0) - 61 freq yowl (1) - 11 freq owld (1) - 166 freq powl (1) - 6 freq ow (1) - 12 freq oil (1) - 89 freq oxl (1) - 1 freq zwl (1) - 1 freq howl (1) - 18 freq owls (1) - 3 freq wl (1) - 6 freq cowl (1) - 8 freq fowl (1) - 12 freq ogl (1) - 1 freq oul (1) - 338 freq gowl (1) - 6 freq rowl (1) - 9 freq opl (1) - 1 freq ol (1) - 5 freq owd (1) - 1 freq towl (1) - 2 freq owt (1) - 10 freq owf (1) - 1 freq own (1) - 164 freq oyl (1) - 2 freq |
owl (0) - 61 freq wl (1) - 6 freq yowl (1) - 11 freq owr (2) - 1 freq owe (2) - 24 freq ool (2) - 8 freq bowl (2) - 72 freq oll (2) - 1 freq own (2) - 164 freq oyl (2) - 2 freq owa (2) - 1 freq sowl (2) - 128 freq wul (2) - 318 freq awol (2) - 9 freq wle (2) - 1 freq wlo (2) - 1 freq wal (2) - 24 freq wil (2) - 12 freq wly (2) - 1 freq owf (2) - 1 freq wool (2) - 31 freq rwl (2) - 1 freq yawl (2) - 8 freq oxl (2) - 1 freq owls (2) - 3 freq |
SoundEx code - O400 oil - 89 freq oo'll - 14 freq owl - 61 freq 'oo'll - 1 freq oily - 7 freq ol - 5 freq oul - 338 freq oyl - 2 freq ollie - 7 freq oil' - 1 freq oiyle - 1 freq oyle - 3 freq oul' - 8 freq 'ola' - 1 freq ola - 1 freq oil- - 1 freq ole - 2 freq oll - 1 freq oo-wheel - 1 freq oh-lay - 3 freq ool - 8 freq ol - 1 freq oo'l - 1 freq olly - 6 freq oaohl - 1 freq oulii - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - OL oil - 89 freq oo'll - 14 freq owl - 61 freq 'oo'll - 1 freq oily - 7 freq ol - 5 freq oul - 338 freq oyl - 2 freq ollie - 7 freq oil' - 1 freq oiyle - 1 freq oyle - 3 freq oul' - 8 freq 'ola' - 1 freq ola - 1 freq oil- - 1 freq ole - 2 freq oll - 1 freq oh-lay - 3 freq ool - 8 freq ol - 1 freq oo'l - 1 freq olly - 6 freq oaohl - 1 freq oulii - 1 freq |
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| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.187317 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 - 0.335576 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 - 0.028557 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 - 0.037558 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 - 0.000812 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. |