| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| flaff (0) - 5 freq laff (1) - 7 freq faff (1) - 3 freq fluff (1) - 5 freq blaff (1) - 2 freq flaaw (2) - 1 freq fluffy (2) - 20 freq flags (2) - 46 freq waff (2) - 19 freq laif (2) - 5 freq baff (2) - 3 freq flane (2) - 2 freq graff (2) - 4 freq liff (2) - 2 freq flava (2) - 1 freq flav (2) - 1 freq flab (2) - 2 freq oaff (2) - 110 freq flack (2) - 3 freq flaow (2) - 1 freq flaffed (2) - 2 freq gaff (2) - 34 freq flank (2) - 12 freq 'aff (2) - 4 freq olaf' (2) - 1 freq |
flaff (0) - 5 freq fluff (1) - 5 freq blaff (2) - 2 freq fluffy (2) - 20 freq faff (2) - 3 freq laff (2) - 7 freq gluff (3) - 19 freq lff (3) - 1 freq funff (3) - 1 freq cliff (3) - 28 freq luff (3) - 4 freq flaffin (3) - 6 freq flaffed (3) - 2 freq flaffer (3) - 3 freq fiff (3) - 1 freq fuff (3) - 6 freq loff (3) - 2 freq bluff (3) - 4 freq gliff (3) - 35 freq pluff (3) - 4 freq liff (3) - 2 freq flaw (4) - 8 freq flams (4) - 2 freq faif (4) - 1 freq flash (4) - 82 freq |
SoundEx code - F410 flip - 9 freq flap - 32 freq floppy - 5 freq fluffy - 20 freq flype - 3 freq flyp - 3 freq flaff - 5 freq flab - 2 freq flee-up - 2 freq follae-up - 4 freq follow-up - 2 freq flop - 4 freq fluff - 5 freq fleep - 1 freq flyb - 1 freq flava - 1 freq flav - 1 freq flp - 2 freq |
MetaPhone code - FLF fluffy - 20 freq flaff - 5 freq valve - 1 freq philiphaugh - 2 freq philiphaw - 1 freq fluff - 5 freq vallvé - 1 freq vulva - 1 freq vlv - 1 freq flava - 1 freq flav - 1 freq volvo - 2 freq |
FLAFF |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.195655 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 - 0.331388 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 - 0.028647 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 - 0.038167 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. |