| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pointless (0) - 10 freq pointers (2) - 2 freq countless (2) - 11 freq pointlessly (2) - 1 freq coontless (2) - 23 freq pyntless (2) - 8 freq kinless (3) - 1 freq moonless (3) - 1 freq 'painless (3) - 1 freq coontliss (3) - 1 freq liltless (3) - 1 freq frontless (3) - 1 freq pouerless (3) - 2 freq tentless (3) - 7 freq printers (3) - 1 freq boonless (3) - 1 freq guiltless (3) - 1 freq pooerless (3) - 2 freq powerless (3) - 2 freq oonless (3) - 4 freq coontiess (3) - 1 freq spineless (3) - 3 freq priceless (3) - 30 freq soonless (3) - 2 freq muinless (3) - 4 freq |
pointless (0) - 10 freq pyntless (2) - 8 freq pointlessly (3) - 1 freq coontless (3) - 23 freq countless (3) - 11 freq tentless (4) - 7 freq pitiless (4) - 1 freq penniless (4) - 1 freq pastless (4) - 1 freq peitiless (4) - 2 freq pointers (4) - 2 freq coontliss (4) - 1 freq witless (5) - 6 freq bounless (5) - 1 freq onless (5) - 7 freq soondless (5) - 2 freq intress (5) - 19 freq stentless (5) - 2 freq dootless (5) - 7 freq doutless (5) - 4 freq buitless (5) - 1 freq sounless (5) - 2 freq coatless (5) - 1 freq countess (5) - 8 freq boundless (5) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - P534 pantil-croodit - 1 freq ponytail - 7 freq pentland - 17 freq pantyloons - 1 freq pentlands - 2 freq pointless - 10 freq pyntless - 8 freq pony-tailed - 1 freq poundlands - 1 freq pentlandfriends - 1 freq pyntle - 1 freq pendulum - 3 freq pintle - 2 freq pendils - 1 freq pendil - 9 freq pownietail - 1 freq pointlessly - 1 freq pandialectical - 1 freq pointlesscelebrities - 1 freq pentlandafc - 6 freq |
MetaPhone code - PNTLS pointless - 10 freq pyntless - 8 freq pendils - 1 freq |
POINTLESS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.227179 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 - 0.363572 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 - 0.027491 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 - 0.040132 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 - 0.000991 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. |