| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| alba (0) - 75 freq alban (1) - 3 freq alma (1) - 1 freq zlba (1) - 1 freq alsa (1) - 1 freq alya (1) - 1 freq elba (1) - 15 freq alba' (1) - 1 freq galba (1) - 1 freq alva (1) - 2 freq aloa (1) - 1 freq alwa (1) - 2 freq alyn (2) - 1 freq awoa (2) - 1 freq lna (2) - 1 freq aby (2) - 11 freq allan (2) - 91 freq alky (2) - 14 freq aaa (2) - 1 freq ailsa (2) - 32 freq allay (2) - 1 freq alab (2) - 1 freq abz (2) - 17 freq albais (2) - 1 freq lb (2) - 4 freq |
alba (0) - 75 freq elba (1) - 15 freq lbao (2) - 1 freq elby (2) - 2 freq alibi (2) - 2 freq lb (2) - 4 freq alab (2) - 1 freq elbae (2) - 12 freq aloa (2) - 1 freq alwa (2) - 2 freq galba (2) - 1 freq alva (2) - 2 freq alba' (2) - 1 freq alsa (2) - 1 freq zlba (2) - 1 freq alban (2) - 3 freq alma (2) - 1 freq alya (2) - 1 freq alie (3) - 1 freq alec (3) - 112 freq alex (3) - 62 freq baba (3) - 2 freq alsae (3) - 9 freq laa (3) - 114 freq abbay (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - A410 alive - 160 freq alba - 75 freq aleive - 1 freq aleeve - 1 freq aloof - 2 freq alfie - 28 freq alive' - 1 freq alibi - 2 freq alf - 7 freq aleppo - 1 freq alph - 1 freq alpha - 5 freq a'luv - 1 freq alewife - 1 freq alva - 2 freq alba' - 1 freq alp - 1 freq €™alba - 1 freq alab - 1 freq ayelf - 1 freq aalf - 1 freq alyve - 1 freq allyboy - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - ALB alba - 75 freq alibi - 2 freq alba' - 1 freq €™alba - 1 freq alab - 1 freq allyboy - 1 freq |
ALBA |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.203511 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 - 0.332934 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 - 0.027294 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 - 0.037386 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 - 0.000866 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. |