| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| houlihan (0) - 1 freq houlin (2) - 21 freq hooligan (2) - 1 freq oul-man (3) - 1 freq hooligans (3) - 3 freq housin (3) - 5 freq obligan (3) - 1 freq tulchan (3) - 1 freq heughan (3) - 1 freq houdin (3) - 1 freq couldhae (3) - 1 freq hoaliday (3) - 16 freq howlan (3) - 11 freq holl-an (3) - 1 freq houchin (3) - 1 freq moulin (3) - 1 freq houlen (3) - 1 freq houpan (3) - 1 freq roulin (3) - 2 freq souchan (3) - 1 freq howlin (3) - 57 freq houlit (3) - 3 freq hole-an (3) - 2 freq hoolan (3) - 1 freq houghin (3) - 1 freq |
houlihan (0) - 1 freq houlin (3) - 21 freq hooligan (3) - 1 freq hoolin (4) - 6 freq houchin (4) - 1 freq houlen (4) - 1 freq houghin (4) - 1 freq hoolan (4) - 1 freq hollin (4) - 1 freq holin (4) - 2 freq haulin (4) - 19 freq heughan (4) - 1 freq hole-an (4) - 2 freq huchin (5) - 1 freq holden (5) - 2 freq lhan (5) - 1 freq hoachin (5) - 21 freq hailin (5) - 7 freq haulen (5) - 10 freq holton (5) - 5 freq hallion (5) - 16 freq hellyan (5) - 2 freq holdin (5) - 18 freq hishan (5) - 1 freq heilin (5) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - H450 haulin - 19 freq hielan - 27 freq helm - 15 freq howlin - 57 freq helen - 58 freq healin - 9 freq halloween - 64 freq hallowe'en - 7 freq hole-an - 2 freq heelan - 7 freq holm - 24 freq howlan - 11 freq houlin - 21 freq howlin' - 3 freq houlen - 1 freq haulen - 10 freq heelin - 1 freq hoolan - 1 freq heilan - 17 freq haalin - 9 freq helena - 4 freq hailin - 7 freq hoolin - 6 freq hallon - 1 freq hallion - 16 freq hielaun - 1 freq haalan - 2 freq hellyan - 2 freq healin' - 1 freq heilan' - 1 freq hill-hanna - 1 freq holin - 2 freq holl-an - 1 freq hulm - 2 freq hollin - 1 freq hallan - 1 freq halin - 1 freq helium - 8 freq hielan' - 1 freq hie'lan' - 1 freq hallooin - 2 freq houlihan - 1 freq hlmm - 1 freq houlin' - 1 freq hallaeeen - 1 freq hulme - 1 freq heilin - 1 freq hallaeen - 12 freq hawalleen - 1 freq hlnn - 1 freq 'holmy - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - HLHN hill-hanna - 1 freq houlihan - 1 freq |
HOULIHAN |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.233664 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 - 0.420677 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 - 0.029974 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 - 0.041896 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 - 0.001157 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. |