| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| witless (0) - 6 freq witness (1) - 89 freq wutless (1) - 1 freq winless (1) - 1 freq liltless (2) - 1 freq titles (2) - 13 freq title's (2) - 1 freq wiles (2) - 11 freq wireless (2) - 55 freq gutless (2) - 1 freq airless (2) - 1 freq uisless (2) - 6 freq yisless (2) - 3 freq sweitless (2) - 1 freq kinless (2) - 1 freq withers (2) - 5 freq giless (2) - 4 freq shitless (2) - 1 freq wutness (2) - 10 freq pitiless (2) - 1 freq ruitless (2) - 2 freq wirthless (2) - 2 freq wanless (2) - 3 freq waitress (2) - 8 freq fitness (2) - 20 freq |
witless (0) - 6 freq wutless (1) - 1 freq winless (2) - 1 freq witness (2) - 89 freq ruitless (3) - 2 freq pitiless (3) - 1 freq wanless (3) - 3 freq buitless (3) - 1 freq wutness (3) - 10 freq waitress (3) - 8 freq sweitless (3) - 1 freq wireless (3) - 55 freq gutless (3) - 1 freq doutless (4) - 4 freq wameless (4) - 1 freq aimless (4) - 1 freq wittens (4) - 6 freq listless (4) - 1 freq heatless (4) - 1 freq peitiless (4) - 2 freq dootless (4) - 7 freq coatless (4) - 1 freq weelass (4) - 2 freq weetness (4) - 1 freq meatless (4) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - W342 witless - 6 freq white-lugged - 1 freq wutless - 1 freq wedlock - 4 freq whut-like's - 1 freq whit-like - 1 freq whitlik - 35 freq whit-lik - 1 freq €œwhitlik - 3 freq €œwhit-lik - 1 freq wattles - 1 freq waddles - 1 freq wadlock - 1 freq wottles - 1 freq watlzers - 1 freq whatalaugh - 1 freq whitehills - 2 freq wtlqtxl - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - WTLS witless - 6 freq wutless - 1 freq wattles - 1 freq waddles - 1 freq wottles - 1 freq |
WITLESS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.224791 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 - 0.365752 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 - 0.032744 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 - 0.038074 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 - 0.000837 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. |