| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fergal (0) - 1 freq ferfal (1) - 8 freq feral (1) - 6 freq firmal (2) - 1 freq ferman (2) - 1 freq ferfil (2) - 7 freq fergus (2) - 8 freq vernal (2) - 3 freq fergit (2) - 2 freq legal (2) - 85 freq regal (2) - 2 freq cereal (2) - 15 freq serial (2) - 4 freq furmal (2) - 1 freq forgan (2) - 3 freq frugal (2) - 4 freq bengal (2) - 2 freq derval (2) - 17 freq verbal (2) - 29 freq forgat (2) - 5 freq fergot (2) - 6 freq ferful (2) - 2 freq herbal (2) - 5 freq ferget (2) - 2 freq ferg (2) - 1 freq |
fergal (0) - 1 freq frugal (2) - 4 freq feral (2) - 6 freq ferfal (2) - 8 freq forgat (3) - 5 freq ferful (3) - 2 freq forgan (3) - 3 freq ferget (3) - 2 freq fergie (3) - 122 freq formal (3) - 59 freq furgat (3) - 2 freq furmal (3) - 1 freq ferg (3) - 1 freq fergot (3) - 6 freq fergit (3) - 2 freq fergus (3) - 8 freq firmal (3) - 1 freq regal (3) - 2 freq ferfil (3) - 7 freq firgit (4) - 13 freq furgot (4) - 17 freq firget (4) - 19 freq ferly (4) - 20 freq frail (4) - 18 freq regale (4) - 2 freq |
SoundEx code - F624 'freshlaid - 1 freq firsled - 1 freq furiously - 6 freq fragile - 16 freq fiercely - 6 freq freckly - 2 freq frecklit - 1 freq frock-like - 1 freq freckles - 19 freq freckled - 5 freq freshly - 8 freq frizzle - 2 freq fair-isle - 1 freq frugal - 4 freq fregley - 2 freq fregley's - 1 freq fragility - 2 freq frazzelt - 1 freq fierce-lukkan - 1 freq faircelins - 1 freq faercly - 1 freq fork-lift - 1 freq friesland - 8 freq fryslan - 1 freq fair-shelled - 1 freq frizzled - 1 freq fierce-like - 1 freq forcie-like - 1 freq frazzled - 1 freq firuswal - 1 freq frizzel - 13 freq frizell - 1 freq fairce-leukin - 1 freq faur-skailed - 1 freq frkzlvmy - 1 freq fergal - 1 freq frxlltgdnh - 1 freq fairisle - 2 freq furseals - 1 freq freegellybhoy - 1 freq fergalmckinney - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - FRKL freckly - 2 freq frugal - 4 freq fregley - 2 freq faercly - 1 freq fergal - 1 freq |
FERGAL |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.324676 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 - 0.602173 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 - 0.061066 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 - 0.049881 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 - 0.000909 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. |