| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| alfie (0) - 2 freq awfie (1) - 349 freq calfie (1) - 7 freq affie (1) - 6 freq alkie (1) - 2 freq allie (1) - 3 freq alie (1) - 1 freq wallie (2) - 19 freq awfi (2) - 5 freq ale (2) - 40 freq addie (2) - 6 freq afpe (2) - 1 freq alice (2) - 1140 freq alive (2) - 122 freq absie (2) - 1 freq abie (2) - 1 freq glie (2) - 1 freq awfle (2) - 1 freq annie (2) - 57 freq elkie (2) - 1 freq lallie (2) - 1 freq malkie (2) - 12 freq alpin (2) - 7 freq alwis (2) - 21 freq attie (2) - 3 freq |
alfie (0) - 2 freq alf (2) - 6 freq lifie (2) - 4 freq alie (2) - 1 freq allie (2) - 3 freq awfie (2) - 349 freq affie (2) - 6 freq calfie (2) - 7 freq alkie (2) - 2 freq ellie (3) - 5 freq lief (3) - 2 freq life (3) - 1446 freq luif (3) - 27 freq affae (3) - 3 freq allye (3) - 1 freq fie (3) - 1 freq alane (3) - 198 freq ilkie (3) - 73 freq awfe (3) - 4 freq allyie (3) - 1 freq alone (3) - 48 freq alce (3) - 1 freq wyfie (3) - 2 freq yaldie (3) - 2 freq alowe (3) - 9 freq |
SoundEx code - A410 alive - 122 freq aleeve - 1 freq alba - 40 freq alibi - 2 freq alf - 6 freq aleppo - 1 freq alph - 1 freq alpha - 3 freq a'luv - 1 freq aloof - 1 freq alewife - 1 freq alva - 2 freq alba' - 1 freq alfie - 2 freq alp - 1 freq €™alba - 1 freq ayelf - 1 freq aalf - 1 freq alyve - 1 freq allyboy - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - ALF alive - 122 freq aleeve - 1 freq alf - 6 freq alph - 1 freq alpha - 3 freq a'luv - 1 freq aloof - 1 freq alva - 2 freq alfie - 2 freq aalf - 1 freq alyve - 1 freq |
ALFIE |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.261751 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 - 0.424691 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 - 0.025043 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 - 0.032297 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 - 0.001154 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. |