| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| usless (0) - 1 freq uisless (1) - 6 freq useless (1) - 36 freq unless (1) - 139 freq slebs (2) - 1 freq ushers (2) - 2 freq spess (2) - 1 freq giless (2) - 4 freq €˜less (2) - 1 freq yisless (2) - 3 freq sloss (2) - 2 freq gisless (2) - 1 freq users (2) - 7 freq aless (2) - 26 freq 'aless (2) - 1 freq enless (2) - 12 freq rueless (2) - 1 freq uses (2) - 47 freq assess (2) - 8 freq wutless (2) - 1 freq isles (2) - 84 freq gless (2) - 395 freq sles (2) - 1 freq cless (2) - 131 freq uiseless (2) - 4 freq |
usless (0) - 1 freq useless (1) - 36 freq uisless (1) - 6 freq yisless (2) - 3 freq uiseless (2) - 4 freq sloss (2) - 2 freq unless (2) - 139 freq eeseless (3) - 6 freq 'less (3) - 1 freq less (3) - 552 freq uissless (3) - 1 freq cless (3) - 131 freq onless (3) - 7 freq kless (3) - 1 freq bless (3) - 44 freq sealess (3) - 1 freq yuiseless (3) - 2 freq sles (3) - 1 freq sunless (3) - 1 freq guiless (3) - 1 freq yaisless (3) - 1 freq sess (3) - 3 freq aless (3) - 26 freq 'aless (3) - 1 freq gisless (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - U242 uselessness - 1 freq uisless - 6 freq useless - 36 freq ugliest - 1 freq usless - 1 freq uiseless - 4 freq usual''s - 1 freq uissless - 1 freq uglies - 1 freq ukclx - 1 freq uaslkeuonw - 1 freq uclzxd - 1 freq uoacollections - 1 freq uselessfactsfaedavie - 1 freq ujlzla - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - USLS uisless - 6 freq useless - 36 freq usless - 1 freq uiseless - 4 freq usual''s - 1 freq uissless - 1 freq |
USLESS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.237868 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 - 0.392044 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 - 0.037992 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 - 0.043913 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 - 0.001153 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. |