| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ecology (0) - 3 freq colony (2) - 9 freq eulogy (2) - 4 freq economy (2) - 60 freq biology (2) - 13 freq apology (2) - 17 freq geology (2) - 5 freq scooty (3) - 2 freq color (3) - 2 freq cloy (3) - 1 freq elegy (3) - 6 freq echoey (3) - 1 freq colly (3) - 1 freq etymology (3) - 14 freq sociology (3) - 6 freq ideology (3) - 10 freq cooly (3) - 1 freq clogs (3) - 10 freq cologne (3) - 3 freq trilogy (3) - 2 freq co-opy (3) - 2 freq technology (3) - 29 freq clog (3) - 2 freq colour (3) - 259 freq colspy (3) - 1 freq |
ecology (0) - 3 freq apology (3) - 17 freq clog (3) - 2 freq geology (3) - 5 freq biology (3) - 13 freq colony (3) - 9 freq eulogy (3) - 4 freq colour (4) - 259 freq clag (4) - 4 freq cologne (4) - 3 freq analogy (4) - 9 freq coley (4) - 1 freq cooly (4) - 1 freq clug (4) - 1 freq cleg (4) - 12 freq colon (4) - 1 freq clogs (4) - 10 freq colly (4) - 1 freq cloy (4) - 1 freq elegy (4) - 6 freq color (4) - 2 freq sociology (4) - 6 freq ideology (4) - 10 freq coulg (4) - 1 freq economy (4) - 60 freq |
SoundEx code - E242 exclusive - 10 freq exclusivelie - 1 freq equals - 10 freq equaliser - 4 freq eagles - 11 freq eaglesfield - 1 freq exiles - 4 freq eaglesham - 4 freq ecclesiastes - 2 freq exhales - 1 freq ecclesiastics - 1 freq exclusively - 3 freq eggshells - 3 freq eclectic - 1 freq eagle's - 4 freq ecological - 6 freq eaglais - 1 freq eeseless - 6 freq ecclesiastic - 1 freq escalace - 1 freq easles - 2 freq exclusion - 3 freq ecology - 3 freq eagles' - 1 freq equal-aqual - 3 freq equals-aquals - 1 freq ex-lecturer - 1 freq easylyke - 1 freq equalise - 4 freq eyeglesses - 1 freq eccles - 1 freq ex-colleagues - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - EKLJ ecology - 3 freq |
ECOLOGY |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.197731 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 - 0.489467 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 - 0.065369 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 - 0.043245 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 - 0.000967 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. |