| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| former (0) - 40 freq forder (1) - 97 freq farmer (1) - 9 freq formed (1) - 47 freq firmer (1) - 4 freq dormer (1) - 2 freq fermer (1) - 194 freq footer (2) - 14 freq lorimer (2) - 30 freq fordel (2) - 7 freq frier (2) - 1 freq forever (2) - 75 freq corner (2) - 324 freq normen (2) - 1 freq formit (2) - 6 freq forgery (2) - 1 freq order (2) - 277 freq freer (2) - 2 freq form' (2) - 2 freq boomer (2) - 1 freq fouter (2) - 6 freq forders (2) - 8 freq forget (2) - 266 freq forfar (2) - 10 freq form (2) - 290 freq |
former (0) - 40 freq firmer (1) - 4 freq fermer (1) - 194 freq farmer (1) - 9 freq dormer (2) - 2 freq fairmer (2) - 65 freq formed (2) - 47 freq forder (2) - 97 freq fryer (3) - 3 freq format (3) - 37 freq ferder (3) - 10 freq foriver (3) - 30 freq furder (3) - 53 freq ferrer (3) - 8 freq foarmed (3) - 2 freq fore'er (3) - 1 freq farrer (3) - 27 freq farer (3) - 1 freq farder (3) - 31 freq farmed (3) - 1 freq forbear (3) - 1 freq farmers (3) - 5 freq forbeir (3) - 3 freq formt (3) - 2 freq reformer (3) - 2 freq |
SoundEx code - F656 fermer's - 21 freq fermer - 194 freq framework - 7 freq fairmer - 65 freq former - 40 freq ferm-yerd-while - 1 freq farmers - 5 freq formerly - 3 freq fermyaird-while - 1 freq fairmers - 38 freq fermers - 90 freq fermers' - 3 freq firmer - 4 freq forwunnert - 3 freq ferm-worker's - 1 freq free-mairket - 1 freq ferm-yard-while - 1 freq fairm-yerd - 1 freq fairmers' - 3 freq fairmer's - 6 freq forin'er - 1 freq forriners - 1 freq fermyaird - 5 freq fairm-yard-while - 1 freq framewark - 10 freq fernyears - 10 freq fairmer' - 1 freq forwaunert - 1 freq farmer - 9 freq framewaark - 29 freq framewaark'' - 1 freq framewaark' - 1 freq fairmyaird-while - 1 freq forwannert - 1 freq fernyeir - 1 freq fernyear - 5 freq farmer's - 3 freq fairmyaird - 4 freq farmyaird - 1 freq furriners - 2 freq foirhaimmer - 1 freq framewirk - 3 freq farmyard - 1 freq furriner - 1 freq formartine - 1 freq fermerdavie - 2 freq furrener - 1 freq furreners - 1 freq furraners - 1 freq fernyear- - 1 freq fermwarker - 1 freq farmersweekly - 9 freq farnorthscot - 2 freq formartineutd - 1 freq freenorthnow - 3 freq |
MetaPhone code - FRMR fermer - 194 freq fairmer - 65 freq former - 40 freq firmer - 4 freq fairmer' - 1 freq farmer - 9 freq |
FORMER |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.229010 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 - 0.409216 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 - 0.028083 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 - 0.040008 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 - 0.001263 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. |