| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| postman (0) - 5 freq postman' (1) - 2 freq pitman (2) - 1 freq boatman (2) - 1 freq tostan (2) - 1 freq footman (2) - 11 freq mostyan (2) - 1 freq postwar (2) - 3 freq cotman (2) - 1 freq postbag (2) - 1 freq costan (2) - 1 freq postin (2) - 21 freq postal (2) - 3 freq pooshan (3) - 1 freq comman (3) - 4 freq sortan (3) - 1 freq postpone (3) - 1 freq pokemon (3) - 1 freq stran (3) - 2 freq westlan (3) - 2 freq roman (3) - 76 freq posture (3) - 8 freq loshan (3) - 1 freq postage (3) - 5 freq rostand (3) - 1 freq |
postman (0) - 5 freq postman' (2) - 2 freq postin (3) - 21 freq pitman (3) - 1 freq posturin (4) - 1 freq styman (4) - 1 freq postamt (4) - 1 freq position (4) - 95 freq rastaman (4) - 1 freq peston (4) - 2 freq pastin (4) - 2 freq piston (4) - 2 freq postpone (4) - 1 freq postwar (4) - 3 freq cotman (4) - 1 freq footman (4) - 11 freq tostan (4) - 1 freq boatman (4) - 1 freq postbag (4) - 1 freq mostyan (4) - 1 freq costan (4) - 1 freq postal (4) - 3 freq jostlin (5) - 3 freq pushan (5) - 3 freq 'stan (5) - 2 freq |
SoundEx code - P235 piece-time - 3 freq position - 95 freq pistons - 2 freq positions - 13 freq pauchtiness - 2 freq poseition - 9 freq poseetion - 29 freq poseetions - 9 freq postin - 21 freq postmistress - 1 freq positioned - 5 freq pastimes - 2 freq postin' - 1 freq postman' - 2 freq postman - 5 freq pastin - 2 freq paction - 18 freq piston - 2 freq poseitioun - 5 freq postmortem - 1 freq poseetioned - 1 freq poseitions - 3 freq posidon - 1 freq positional - 1 freq poseitiouns - 1 freq posthumous - 1 freq post-modren - 2 freq post-union - 1 freq poseidon - 5 freq paxton - 2 freq post-maister - 1 freq poseeetion - 1 freq post-industrial - 1 freq positionin - 1 freq post-mercat - 1 freq picketing - 1 freq postmestir - 1 freq posting - 6 freq postmodern - 2 freq pastime - 1 freq peston - 2 freq postamt - 1 freq post-menopausal - 1 freq psqytymnbx - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - PSTMN postman' - 2 freq postman - 5 freq |
POSTMAN |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.295589 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 - 0.363282 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 - 0.028231 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 - 0.036994 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 - 0.000843 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. |