| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anal (0) - 1 freq anat (1) - 1 freq anar (1) - 1 freq agal (1) - 1 freq anae (1) - 1 freq ana' (1) - 3 freq anas (1) - 9 freq aal (1) - 755 freq anaw (1) - 198 freq anawl (1) - 1 freq atal (1) - 2 freq anaa (1) - 20 freq nal (1) - 1 freq ana (1) - 143 freq canal (1) - 27 freq ingl (2) - 1 freq axil (2) - 1 freq a'yl (2) - 1 freq cna (2) - 2 freq 'al (2) - 3 freq amnae (2) - 2 freq anyd (2) - 2 freq nol (2) - 1 freq baal (2) - 14 freq aaaa (2) - 2 freq |
anal (0) - 1 freq nal (1) - 1 freq anly (2) - 1 freq anely (2) - 328 freq inalo (2) - 1 freq nial (2) - 4 freq nail (2) - 46 freq nil (2) - 7 freq nael (2) - 2 freq neal (2) - 1 freq nl (2) - 6 freq nol (2) - 1 freq unul (2) - 1 freq canal (2) - 27 freq anae (2) - 1 freq ana' (2) - 3 freq agal (2) - 1 freq anar (2) - 1 freq anat (2) - 1 freq ana (2) - 143 freq anas (2) - 9 freq anawl (2) - 1 freq aal (2) - 755 freq anaa (2) - 20 freq anaw (2) - 198 freq |
SoundEx code - A540 ainly - 231 freq anelie - 25 freq an'll - 2 freq anely - 328 freq ainlie - 138 freq 'ainly - 3 freq annual - 24 freq amyl - 1 freq amly - 1 freq anneal - 2 freq ainly' - 1 freq an'wul - 1 freq anlie - 15 freq ainle - 2 freq anly - 1 freq amelia - 1 freq aenly - 1 freq amyelle - 2 freq anawl - 1 freq anal - 1 freq aimeelou - 4 freq |
MetaPhone code - ANL ainly - 231 freq anelie - 25 freq an'll - 2 freq anely - 328 freq ainlie - 138 freq 'ainly - 3 freq annual - 24 freq anneal - 2 freq ainly' - 1 freq anlie - 15 freq ainle - 2 freq anly - 1 freq anawl - 1 freq anal - 1 freq |
ANAL |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.201046 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 - 0.341409 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 - 0.027620 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 - 0.045404 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 - 0.000912 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. |