Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
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afore (0) - 3429 freq afore' (1) - 1 freq a'fore (1) - 2 freq afure (1) - 2 freq afore- (1) - 1 freq afiore (1) - 1 freq afoare (1) - 1 freq 'afore (1) - 8 freq fore (1) - 155 freq adore (1) - 12 freq atore (1) - 2 freq 'fore (1) - 1 freq afor (1) - 25 freq amore (1) - 1 freq fure (2) - 1 freq adores (2) - 2 freq ashore (2) - 35 freq azores (2) - 1 freq -for (2) - 3 freq core (2) - 54 freq force (2) - 126 freq ftore (2) - 1 freq ayre (2) - 8 freq afore's (2) - 1 freq alowe (2) - 13 freq |
afore (0) - 3429 freq afoare (1) - 1 freq afor (1) - 25 freq afiore (1) - 1 freq fore (1) - 155 freq afure (1) - 2 freq fare (2) - 62 freq afro (2) - 2 freq fre (2) - 2 freq for (2) - 14433 freq fire (2) - 699 freq foree (2) - 1 freq fora (2) - 3 freq fere (2) - 18 freq afoar (2) - 15 freq afoir (2) - 68 freq fyre (2) - 27 freq afar (2) - 10 freq afer (2) - 1 freq atore (2) - 2 freq amore (2) - 1 freq fure (2) - 1 freq adore (2) - 12 freq 'afore (2) - 8 freq afore' (2) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - A160 afore - 3429 freq appear - 98 freq afore- - 1 freq affair - 36 freq 'afore - 8 freq afaur - 4 freq afar - 10 freq aiverie - 3 freq afure - 2 freq afoar - 15 freq aubrey - 4 freq a'fore - 2 freq afor - 25 freq appar - 2 freq appear' - 1 freq aver - 4 freq aaber - 22 freq afiore - 1 freq afore' - 1 freq afoir - 68 freq aboor - 1 freq affair' - 1 freq afro - 2 freq aiver - 3 freq afoare - 1 freq €˜afore - 2 freq affere - 1 freq afroe - 1 freq avery - 2 freq affeir - 1 freq aferr - 1 freq appeir - 1 freq awpr - 11 freq apirie - 1 freq afer - 1 freq avera - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - AFR afore - 3429 freq afore- - 1 freq affair - 36 freq 'afore - 8 freq afaur - 4 freq afar - 10 freq aiverie - 3 freq afure - 2 freq afoar - 15 freq a'fore - 2 freq afor - 25 freq aver - 4 freq afiore - 1 freq afore' - 1 freq afoir - 68 freq affair' - 1 freq afro - 2 freq aiver - 3 freq afoare - 1 freq €˜afore - 2 freq affere - 1 freq afroe - 1 freq avery - 2 freq affeir - 1 freq aferr - 1 freq augher - 1 freq afer - 1 freq avera - 1 freq |
AFORE before - 560 freq afore - 3429 freq |
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.198129 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 - 0.797784 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 - 0.069233 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 - 0.070974 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 - 0.001213 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. |