| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| witches (0) - 35 freq ditches (1) - 8 freq switches (1) - 7 freq twitches (1) - 2 freq eitches (1) - 1 freq witches' (1) - 2 freq witch's (1) - 6 freq bitches (1) - 6 freq pitches (1) - 14 freq watches (1) - 29 freq 'witches (1) - 1 freq hitches (1) - 2 freq witchie (2) - 3 freq pitched (2) - 7 freq fetches (2) - 4 freq patches (2) - 20 freq tithes (2) - 2 freq watched (2) - 257 freq witchell (2) - 1 freq winces (2) - 2 freq wishes (2) - 36 freq winched (2) - 4 freq ratches (2) - 1 freq notches (2) - 1 freq riches (2) - 23 freq |
witches (0) - 35 freq watches (1) - 29 freq switches (2) - 7 freq hitches (2) - 2 freq ditches (2) - 8 freq waatches (2) - 7 freq pitches (2) - 14 freq 'witches (2) - 1 freq bitches (2) - 6 freq twitches (2) - 2 freq eitches (2) - 1 freq witches' (2) - 2 freq witch's (2) - 6 freq catches (3) - 31 freq watcher (3) - 1 freq wenches (3) - 2 freq witch (3) - 96 freq wretches (3) - 1 freq withies (3) - 1 freq hutches (3) - 1 freq latches (3) - 2 freq watchen (3) - 7 freq witchery (3) - 3 freq hatches (3) - 4 freq witchin (3) - 2 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 |
WITCHES |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.206161 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 - 0.397526 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 - 0.033813 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 - 0.038767 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 - 0.000804 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. |