| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| waster (0) - 13 freq waister (1) - 1 freq waste (1) - 120 freq wabster (1) - 17 freq wastet (1) - 2 freq washer (1) - 5 freq wasted (1) - 23 freq wastert (1) - 1 freq faster (1) - 77 freq easter (1) - 41 freq wasser (1) - 1 freq aster (1) - 1 freq waater (1) - 34 freq wasters (1) - 6 freq waiter (1) - 34 freq walter (1) - 56 freq wastel (1) - 1 freq wester (1) - 6 freq wastern (1) - 5 freq water (1) - 252 freq master (1) - 19 freq watter (1) - 1016 freq wastes (1) - 4 freq caster (1) - 2 freq wasterfu (2) - 1 freq |
waster (0) - 13 freq wester (1) - 6 freq waister (1) - 1 freq wastern (2) - 5 freq master (2) - 19 freq walter (2) - 56 freq wastel (2) - 1 freq wastes (2) - 4 freq wastry (2) - 2 freq wooster (2) - 1 freq caster (2) - 2 freq waiter (2) - 34 freq watter (2) - 1016 freq water (2) - 252 freq wastet (2) - 2 freq washer (2) - 5 freq wabster (2) - 17 freq wasters (2) - 6 freq waste (2) - 120 freq wastert (2) - 1 freq wasted (2) - 23 freq faster (2) - 77 freq waater (2) - 34 freq wasser (2) - 1 freq aster (2) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - W236 waster - 13 freq western - 30 freq westray - 13 freq westerly - 2 freq westerns - 1 freq wastren - 7 freq wastrals - 1 freq wasters - 6 freq westernes - 1 freq wastrin - 1 freq westerbister - 1 freq wester - 6 freq wastrel - 1 freq westward - 1 freq wastries - 1 freq wastry - 2 freq wastern - 5 freq westren - 4 freq wastert - 1 freq westrobothnian - 1 freq wast-owre - 1 freq wastird - 4 freq waister - 1 freq wasterly - 2 freq wastrie - 3 freq westerne - 1 freq wastrenisation - 1 freq westerha - 1 freq wechtier - 1 freq wasterfu - 1 freq weestoriestheatre - 1 freq westerloch - 1 freq wasterners - 1 freq westwards - 1 freq weeextrabonus - 1 freq westerners - 1 freq westernau - 1 freq wooster - 1 freq wstewartgk - 19 freq |
MetaPhone code - WSTR waster - 13 freq westray - 13 freq wester - 6 freq wastry - 2 freq wast-owre - 1 freq waister - 1 freq wastrie - 3 freq wooster - 1 freq |
WASTER waste - 120 freq wasted - 23 freq waster - 13 freq wasting - 6 freq wastes - 4 freq |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.175342 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 - 0.345332 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 - 0.027020 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 - 0.036868 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 - 0.000869 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. |