| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ballymena (0) - 6 freq ballamena (1) - 1 freq ballymenabap (3) - 1 freq bellement (3) - 3 freq ballerina (3) - 2 freq balaena (3) - 1 freq fallsman (4) - 1 freq allen (4) - 2 freq balloons (4) - 16 freq allye (4) - 1 freq balled (4) - 6 freq bullybeef (4) - 1 freq allotment (4) - 6 freq ballade (4) - 3 freq fallyin (4) - 1 freq fallen (4) - 29 freq bellynab (4) - 1 freq basement (4) - 9 freq batmen (4) - 1 freq balloon (4) - 37 freq alyona (4) - 3 freq calleen (4) - 1 freq rallyan (4) - 2 freq aleyven (4) - 2 freq barmen (4) - 1 freq |
ballymena (0) - 6 freq ballamena (1) - 1 freq bellymoney (4) - 2 freq bellamaina (4) - 2 freq ballerina (4) - 2 freq bellement (4) - 3 freq ballin (5) - 3 freq bullyin (5) - 17 freq hillmen (5) - 1 freq bull-man (5) - 1 freq ballymenabap (5) - 1 freq balaena (5) - 1 freq willamina (5) - 1 freq balloon (5) - 37 freq blimmin (6) - 4 freq collman (6) - 1 freq blamin (6) - 6 freq rallyin (6) - 3 freq bellend (6) - 7 freq billymcd (6) - 10 freq ballest (6) - 3 freq follyen (6) - 2 freq bullying (6) - 4 freq ballet (6) - 4 freq bellin (6) - 3 freq |
SoundEx code - B455 blamin - 6 freq beelin-eened - 2 freq bloomin - 28 freq blumin - 1 freq bluimin - 1 freq baal-hamon - 1 freq blimmin - 4 freq belnamore - 3 freq blinnin - 1 freq belmont - 6 freq blinninly - 2 freq bellymoney - 2 freq bellamaina - 2 freq blooman - 8 freq bellement - 3 freq bloomeen - 1 freq ballymena - 6 freq blaming - 4 freq bioluminescent - 1 freq bull-man - 1 freq blooming - 33 freq bloomin' - 2 freq ballynahinch - 1 freq blumenthal - 1 freq ballymenabap - 1 freq belmontedinbur - 4 freq billyneymates - 1 freq ballamena - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - BLMN blamin - 6 freq bloomin - 28 freq blumin - 1 freq bluimin - 1 freq blimmin - 4 freq bellymoney - 2 freq bellamaina - 2 freq blooman - 8 freq bloomeen - 1 freq ballymena - 6 freq bull-man - 1 freq bloomin' - 2 freq ballamena - 1 freq |
BALLYMENA |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.199679 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 - 0.352340 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 - 0.028034 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 - 0.037945 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 - 0.000966 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. |