| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| colonels (0) - 1 freq colonel (1) - 8 freq coldness (2) - 2 freq cojones (2) - 1 freq clones (2) - 1 freq colonies (2) - 7 freq colonials (2) - 1 freq colmonell (2) - 1 freq coonsels (2) - 1 freq colonisers (3) - 1 freq closes (3) - 27 freq coarners (3) - 9 freq toowels (3) - 1 freq colinbell (3) - 13 freq colors (3) - 1 freq chanels (3) - 1 freq boones (3) - 1 freq tooners (3) - 1 freq lonely (3) - 38 freq cannels (3) - 4 freq coonters (3) - 1 freq caunnels (3) - 1 freq 'lonely (3) - 1 freq coontess (3) - 8 freq cloned (3) - 1 freq |
colonels (0) - 1 freq colonials (2) - 1 freq colonel (2) - 8 freq colonies (3) - 7 freq clones (3) - 1 freq colls (4) - 1 freq colonial (4) - 8 freq cannels (4) - 4 freq caunnels (4) - 1 freq coulness (4) - 1 freq colonise (4) - 2 freq clynes (4) - 1 freq chanels (4) - 1 freq collies (4) - 1 freq colonialise (4) - 1 freq colonsay (4) - 1 freq colmonell (4) - 1 freq coonsels (4) - 1 freq cojones (4) - 1 freq cornelis (4) - 2 freq coldness (4) - 2 freq colin's (4) - 5 freq corners (5) - 36 freq connolys (5) - 1 freq colon (5) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - C454 calmly - 16 freq colonel - 8 freq cleanliness - 6 freq clonlee - 2 freq colonial - 8 freq colonialism - 2 freq cal'in'wullie - 1 freq clean-livin - 2 freq colonials - 1 freq colonels - 1 freq cleanly - 4 freq colinwilliamfar - 1 freq colonialise - 1 freq colinlaw - 3 freq colonelbirder - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - KLNLS glenluce - 1 freq colonials - 1 freq colonels - 1 freq colonialise - 1 freq |
COLONELS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.491760 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 - 0.740129 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 - 0.074184 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 - 0.087174 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 - 0.000971 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. |