| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| petals (0) - 22 freq metals (1) - 5 freq pedals (1) - 3 freq petal (1) - 10 freq peals (1) - 2 freq peal (2) - 3 freq pearls (2) - 17 freq deals (2) - 18 freq ptas (2) - 1 freq petard (2) - 1 freq penels (2) - 7 freq beals (2) - 1 freq spitals (2) - 1 freq peills (2) - 1 freq petrels (2) - 2 freq phials (2) - 1 freq pets (2) - 12 freq details (2) - 70 freq penal (2) - 5 freq dentals (2) - 1 freq peans (2) - 1 freq retails (2) - 1 freq pedal (2) - 4 freq heals (2) - 5 freq decals (2) - 1 freq |
petals (0) - 22 freq petal (2) - 10 freq peals (2) - 2 freq pedals (2) - 3 freq metals (2) - 5 freq pals (3) - 357 freq peats (3) - 49 freq peels (3) - 30 freq peters (3) - 4 freq retails (3) - 1 freq peths (3) - 3 freq perils (3) - 2 freq portals (3) - 1 freq pete's (3) - 3 freq pet's (3) - 2 freq vitals (3) - 1 freq details (3) - 70 freq spitals (3) - 1 freq penels (3) - 7 freq ptas (3) - 1 freq pearls (3) - 17 freq petrels (3) - 2 freq peills (3) - 1 freq pets (3) - 12 freq phials (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - P342 petals - 22 freq padlock - 5 freq puddles - 12 freq podlie's - 1 freq pitlochory - 1 freq pathologically - 1 freq peitiless - 2 freq pitlochry - 7 freq paiddles - 2 freq pitiless - 1 freq peetiless - 1 freq piddles - 4 freq pedals - 3 freq pot-holes - 1 freq pathologist - 1 freq pathological - 1 freq paddles - 1 freq potlicht - 1 freq ptlz - 1 freq padlocks - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - PTLS petals - 22 freq puddles - 12 freq podlie's - 1 freq peitiless - 2 freq paiddles - 2 freq pitiless - 1 freq peetiless - 1 freq piddles - 4 freq pedals - 3 freq paddles - 1 freq ptlz - 1 freq |
PETALS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.180306 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 - 0.340326 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 - 0.032514 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 - 0.043859 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 - 0.001160 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. |