| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wester (0) - 6 freq webster (1) - 8 freq weiter (1) - 1 freq waster (1) - 13 freq mester (1) - 12 freq pester (1) - 2 freq wetter (1) - 4 freq weeter (1) - 2 freq sester (1) - 2 freq yester (1) - 4 freq fester (1) - 16 freq jester (1) - 4 freq gester (1) - 2 freq western (1) - 30 freq wasters (2) - 6 freq wrestler (2) - 1 freq letter (2) - 239 freq master (2) - 19 freq menter (2) - 1 freq lested (2) - 4 freq weyten (2) - 4 freq meter (2) - 8 freq wiste (2) - 2 freq eesyer (2) - 1 freq waiter (2) - 34 freq |
wester (0) - 6 freq waster (1) - 13 freq gester (2) - 2 freq fester (2) - 16 freq western (2) - 30 freq wooster (2) - 1 freq yester (2) - 4 freq waister (2) - 1 freq jester (2) - 4 freq mester (2) - 12 freq sester (2) - 2 freq webster (2) - 8 freq pester (2) - 2 freq weiter (2) - 1 freq weeter (2) - 2 freq wetter (2) - 4 freq deester (3) - 2 freq wheeter (3) - 1 freq wastes (3) - 4 freq 'easter (3) - 1 freq whiter (3) - 2 freq oyster (3) - 23 freq enster (3) - 2 freq westies (3) - 1 freq muster (3) - 7 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 |
WESTER |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.185828 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 - 0.353039 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 - 0.027540 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 - 0.037134 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 - 0.000981 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. |