| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| yowts (0) - 2 freq bowts (1) - 2 freq dowts (1) - 4 freq yowls (1) - 4 freq yowt (1) - 1 freq yows (1) - 4 freq towts (1) - 5 freq yowes (1) - 72 freq tows (2) - 2 freq yoos (2) - 1 freq yetts (2) - 61 freq posts (2) - 45 freq myowt (2) - 5 freq voits (2) - 2 freq youths (2) - 6 freq sorts (2) - 70 freq gows (2) - 2 freq vows (2) - 7 freq yoles (2) - 9 freq hots (2) - 1 freq bowfs (2) - 2 freq howks (2) - 7 freq yours (2) - 166 freq thowts (2) - 15 freq vow's (2) - 1 freq |
yowts (0) - 2 freq towts (2) - 5 freq ayewts (2) - 3 freq wots (2) - 3 freq yows (2) - 4 freq yowes (2) - 72 freq dowts (2) - 4 freq yowt (2) - 1 freq yowls (2) - 4 freq bowts (2) - 2 freq poots (3) - 3 freq tots (3) - 4 freq poets (3) - 70 freq jots (3) - 5 freq pyots (3) - 2 freq o'ts (3) - 2 freq waits (3) - 28 freq orts (3) - 3 freq yowtit (3) - 1 freq lots (3) - 76 freq doots (3) - 33 freq owis (3) - 1 freq boats (3) - 107 freq goats (3) - 17 freq coits (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - Y320 yitoch - 1 freq yetts - 61 freq yetoch - 1 freq youths - 6 freq yit's - 1 freq yiddish - 4 freq yett's - 1 freq yowts - 2 freq youth's - 2 freq yeats - 1 freq yettis - 1 freq yauds - 1 freq yeats's - 1 freq yids - 2 freq yits - 1 freq yhdg - 1 freq ytk - 1 freq yhtducw - 1 freq yytks - 1 freq ythsie - 1 freq ytzo - 1 freq ydgq - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - YTS yetts - 61 freq yit's - 1 freq yett's - 1 freq yowts - 2 freq yeats - 1 freq yettis - 1 freq yauds - 1 freq yids - 2 freq yits - 1 freq |
YOWTS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.260483 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 - 0.414414 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 - 0.027745 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 - 0.040182 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 - 0.003699 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. |