| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| alive (0) - 160 freq 'live (1) - 2 freq clive (1) - 9 freq alyve (1) - 1 freq ilive (1) - 1 freq live (1) - 424 freq alike (1) - 26 freq alie (1) - 1 freq olive (1) - 16 freq alive' (1) - 1 freq alice (1) - 1584 freq aleive (1) - 1 freq lives (2) - 241 freq aoife (2) - 5 freq glie (2) - 1 freq lite (2) - 3 freq aÂ’ve (2) - 7 freq slave (2) - 41 freq aloe (2) - 1 freq lile (2) - 1 freq life (2) - 1976 freq ahi've (2) - 1 freq ali (2) - 165 freq mlove (2) - 18 freq ahve (2) - 8 freq |
alive (0) - 160 freq aleive (1) - 1 freq olive (1) - 16 freq live (1) - 424 freq ilive (1) - 1 freq alyve (1) - 1 freq laive (2) - 3 freq eelive (2) - 1 freq lave (2) - 227 freq luive (2) - 9 freq lieve (2) - 1 freq leive (2) - 25 freq luve (2) - 332 freq liv (2) - 12 freq olivy (2) - 1 freq love (2) - 913 freq ilve (2) - 1 freq leve (2) - 2 freq livie (2) - 8 freq livi (2) - 2 freq alva (2) - 2 freq clive (2) - 9 freq aleeve (2) - 1 freq alive' (2) - 1 freq alie (2) - 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 - ALF alive - 160 freq aleive - 1 freq aleeve - 1 freq aloof - 2 freq alfie - 28 freq alive' - 1 freq alf - 7 freq alph - 1 freq alpha - 5 freq a'luv - 1 freq alva - 2 freq aalf - 1 freq alyve - 1 freq |
ALIVE |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.306822 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 - 0.540821 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 - 0.063921 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 - 0.074120 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 - 0.000918 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. |