| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| epilepsy (0) - 5 freq exiles (3) - 4 freq epileptic (3) - 4 freq piles (3) - 26 freq piley (3) - 1 freq spilers (3) - 1 freq epples (3) - 10 freq eilers (3) - 1 freq spiles (3) - 1 freq pilly (4) - 1 freq eesy (4) - 2 freq jilps (4) - 1 freq pillls (4) - 1 freq pleese (4) - 1 freq gilpey (4) - 2 freq filey (4) - 12 freq spaley (4) - 3 freq pepsi (4) - 7 freq pipers (4) - 10 freq please (4) - 559 freq biles (4) - 14 freq epistles (4) - 1 freq baileys (4) - 3 freq spikey (4) - 6 freq 'please (4) - 35 freq |
epilepsy (0) - 5 freq pleepse (4) - 4 freq piles (4) - 26 freq pleeps (4) - 2 freq pulpy (5) - 1 freq palsy (5) - 2 freq peeps (5) - 82 freq plens (5) - 17 freq philps (5) - 1 freq pales (5) - 2 freq pilots (5) - 5 freq pips (5) - 2 freq plets (5) - 1 freq elapse (5) - 1 freq plees (5) - 6 freq pipes (5) - 91 freq pimps (5) - 1 freq plews (5) - 2 freq pleas (5) - 9 freq leps (5) - 1 freq poles (5) - 30 freq pills (5) - 16 freq plebs (5) - 5 freq fleps (5) - 1 freq pleise (5) - 2 freq |
SoundEx code - E141 evolves - 1 freq epileptic - 4 freq epilepsy - 5 freq eabbi-labbi - 1 freq evolved - 9 freq evolve - 7 freq evolvin - 1 freq eeyplvxu - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - EPLPS epilepsy - 5 freq |
EPILEPSY |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.198684 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 - 0.360451 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 - 0.027217 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 - 0.037243 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 - 0.000917 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. |