| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| watches (0) - 29 freq swatches (1) - 16 freq matches (1) - 41 freq watchers (1) - 11 freq latches (1) - 2 freq watchen (1) - 7 freq waatches (1) - 7 freq ratches (1) - 1 freq patches (1) - 20 freq catches (1) - 31 freq watcher (1) - 1 freq witches (1) - 35 freq watched (1) - 257 freq hatches (1) - 4 freq wathers (2) - 1 freq watcht (2) - 8 freq arches (2) - 17 freq twitches (2) - 2 freq watchan (2) - 20 freq swatched (2) - 5 freq catche's (2) - 1 freq taiches (2) - 1 freq platches (2) - 1 freq pitches (2) - 14 freq catcher (2) - 2 freq |
watches (0) - 29 freq waatches (1) - 7 freq witches (1) - 35 freq watcher (2) - 1 freq watched (2) - 257 freq watchers (2) - 11 freq swatches (2) - 16 freq catches (2) - 31 freq hatches (2) - 4 freq latches (2) - 2 freq patches (2) - 20 freq matches (2) - 41 freq watchen (2) - 7 freq ratches (2) - 1 freq watch (3) - 670 freq hutches (3) - 1 freq waatched (3) - 43 freq witch's (3) - 6 freq paitches (3) - 1 freq ditches (3) - 8 freq fetches (3) - 4 freq retches (3) - 1 freq wretches (3) - 1 freq wenches (3) - 2 freq swaatches (3) - 10 freq |
SoundEx code - W322 watches - 29 freq witches - 35 freq witchcraft - 8 freq witches'll - 1 freq witches' - 2 freq witch's - 6 freq 'witches - 1 freq waatches - 7 freq waadges - 1 freq watchcloth - 2 freq white-jaiketed - 1 freq wadges - 1 freq wedges - 1 freq wadwjjaice - 1 freq wodekoq - 1 freq whitshisname - 2 freq whitshisnames - 2 freq |
MetaPhone code - WXS watches - 29 freq wishes - 36 freq witches - 35 freq wheechs - 10 freq washes - 10 freq witches' - 2 freq waashes - 4 freq witch's - 6 freq 'witches - 1 freq wushes - 1 freq waatches - 7 freq weeshes - 1 freq weishes - 3 freq washhous - 1 freq wheichs - 1 freq washhoose - 1 freq |
WATCHES watch - 670 freq watchin - 386 freq watched - 257 freq watching - 79 freq watches - 29 freq watchan - 20 freq watcher - 1 freq watchers - 11 freq watcht - 8 freq watchin' - 8 freq watchit - 6 freq watchful - 2 freq watch-too'ers - 1 freq |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.182457 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 - 0.348777 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 - 0.027590 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 - 0.036736 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 - 0.000909 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. |