| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| birls (0) - 31 freq bills (1) - 18 freq pirls (1) - 4 freq birds (1) - 198 freq tirls (1) - 4 freq dirls (1) - 7 freq burls (1) - 5 freq girls (1) - 59 freq birl (1) - 93 freq nirls (1) - 1 freq birns (1) - 3 freq birks (1) - 21 freq birlt (1) - 25 freq birts (1) - 1 freq birly (1) - 10 freq barls (1) - 1 freq birss (1) - 3 freq worls (2) - 5 freq barks (2) - 7 freq airs (2) - 38 freq chirls (2) - 2 freq binks (2) - 7 freq diels (2) - 2 freq jarls (2) - 11 freq births (2) - 6 freq |
birls (0) - 31 freq burls (1) - 5 freq barls (1) - 1 freq birlt (2) - 25 freq birks (2) - 21 freq bills (2) - 18 freq birly (2) - 10 freq birns (2) - 3 freq birss (2) - 3 freq birts (2) - 1 freq birds (2) - 198 freq nirls (2) - 1 freq pirls (2) - 4 freq dirls (2) - 7 freq tirls (2) - 4 freq birl (2) - 93 freq girls (2) - 59 freq bells (3) - 67 freq bibles (3) - 6 freq burrs (3) - 2 freq beals (3) - 1 freq buirds (3) - 10 freq berns (3) - 10 freq burials (3) - 1 freq hurls (3) - 4 freq |
SoundEx code - B642 barleycorn - 8 freq birls - 31 freq burials - 1 freq barrels - 18 freq brylcreemt - 1 freq barley-sugar - 3 freq birrless - 4 freq burls - 5 freq barlic - 1 freq brylcreem - 3 freq browls - 2 freq barlass - 1 freq beerials - 4 freq barls - 1 freq braw-lookin - 4 freq barley-shuggar - 1 freq bröls - 1 freq barley's - 1 freq brollies - 2 freq brulzie - 1 freq beerial's - 1 freq burlesques - 1 freq borealis - 2 freq burrell's - 1 freq barrel-kistit - 1 freq beirials - 1 freq brollie's - 1 freq barleys - 1 freq brulziement - 1 freq burial-shroud - 1 freq brawlik - 1 freq barreless - 3 freq brylcream - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - BRLS birls - 31 freq burials - 1 freq barrels - 18 freq birrless - 4 freq burls - 5 freq browls - 2 freq barlass - 1 freq beerials - 4 freq barls - 1 freq bröls - 1 freq barley's - 1 freq brollies - 2 freq brulzie - 1 freq beerial's - 1 freq borealis - 2 freq burrell's - 1 freq beirials - 1 freq brollie's - 1 freq barleys - 1 freq barreless - 3 freq |
BIRLS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.368277 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 - 0.796530 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 - 0.027499 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 - 0.100797 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 - 0.059274 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. |