| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| walter (0) - 56 freq walker (1) - 25 freq falter (1) - 1 freq waiter (1) - 34 freq aalter (1) - 1 freq waller (1) - 1 freq alter (1) - 15 freq water (1) - 252 freq walted (1) - 1 freq walterw (1) - 1 freq waater (1) - 34 freq walters (1) - 4 freq watter (1) - 1016 freq halter (1) - 5 freq waster (1) - 13 freq balmer (2) - 2 freq wagner (2) - 1 freq walkers (2) - 18 freq watew (2) - 2 freq halted (2) - 2 freq spalter (2) - 2 freq banter (2) - 43 freq walled (2) - 2 freq palmer (2) - 3 freq wather (2) - 75 freq |
walter (0) - 56 freq waater (2) - 34 freq walterw (2) - 1 freq walters (2) - 4 freq halter (2) - 5 freq waster (2) - 13 freq walted (2) - 1 freq watter (2) - 1016 freq water (2) - 252 freq walker (2) - 25 freq falter (2) - 1 freq waiter (2) - 34 freq aalter (2) - 1 freq waller (2) - 1 freq alter (2) - 15 freq welder (3) - 4 freq walth (3) - 35 freq walts (3) - 1 freq wattar (3) - 2 freq waloper (3) - 1 freq waatir (3) - 11 freq waatter (3) - 2 freq aaltir (3) - 1 freq swulter (3) - 1 freq waitter (3) - 56 freq |
SoundEx code - W436 wilderness - 14 freq wilder - 4 freq walters - 4 freq wheelter - 16 freq welders - 2 freq wildrife - 1 freq walterin - 3 freq wulderness - 1 freq walter - 56 freq walter'll - 1 freq walter's - 2 freq weel-dressed - 2 freq weel-dressit - 1 freq well-traint - 1 freq wuldèrness - 2 freq wuldérness - 1 freq weel-trained - 2 freq weel-trusted - 1 freq welder - 4 freq waldorf - 2 freq walthier - 1 freq weel-trickit - 3 freq walterson - 1 freq williedrennan - 11 freq walterpresents - 1 freq walterw - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - WLTR wilder - 4 freq wheelter - 16 freq walter - 56 freq welder - 4 freq walterw - 1 freq |
WALTER |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.343468 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 - 0.770841 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 - 0.075573 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 - 0.036754 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 - 0.000819 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. |